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The probability of successfully planning for the future dramatically increases when university leaders appropriately engage faculty and staff to strategize. (Shutterstock)

To ‘future proof’ universities, leaders have to engage faculty to make tough decisions

Loren Falkenberg, University of Calgary and M. Elizabeth Cannon, University of Calgary

Strategic planning experts say public universities in developed countries can no longer depend on government funding, and must restructure to reduce costs and increase revenue or face failure.
A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of COVID-19 walks past a temporary Pride art installation in Vancouver on Aug. 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

A second COVID‑19 wave? Here are 6 lessons from the first

Loren Falkenberg, University of Calgary and Jillian Walsh, University of York

In the event of a new pandemic or a second wave of COVID-19, lives can be saved while also stabilizing business. It’s not an either/or decision.
A tourist from Québec poses with a Canadian flag in Peggy’s Cove, N.S. on Canada Day, 2016. Allowing domestic tourism to resume may be one step to carefully reopening the Canadian economy during the pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

Restarting the coronavirus economy: 4 possible steps

Loren Falkenberg, University of Calgary and Jillian Walsh, University of York

The response to COVID-19 should become a learning opportunity on how to develop more illness-proof economies.

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