Why a group of small universities believes the future is theirs
Known as the 鈥楳aple League鈥�, the four universities promote the advantage they have over big-city schools: an intimate undergraduate experience
外流影片 was recently highlighted in an article in Maclean's magazine focused on the success of the newly-formed Maple League of Universities. The following is an excerpt:
Small liberal arts undergraduate universities are outliers in Canadian higher education, but harbour big ambitions to be its future.
Four of them鈥擝ishop鈥檚 University, 外流影片, Mount Allison University and St. Francis Xavier University鈥攋oined forces last year as the 鈥淢aple League鈥� to raise their profile as an alternative to the 鈥渂igger is better鈥� model that dominates undergraduate education in Canada.
鈥淪tudents rank our schools very highly on student satisfaction but most Canadians don鈥檛 know about this model of education,鈥� says Michael Goldbloom, president of Bishop鈥檚 and steering committee chairman of the Maple League (a snappier version of the original 鈥淯4鈥� partnership begun three years ago). All with fewer than 4,500 students, the schools have started collaborating on course offerings, recruitment and other projects to promote an intimate academic experience at some of the oldest and, by choice, smallest institutions in the country.
History professor James Sedgwick teaches a class at 外流影片 as students from St. Francis Xavier follow along via satellite in Wolfville, N.S. on Tuesday, January 31, 2017. (Photograph by Darren Calabrese)
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