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It argues that since 2006 there has been a general loss of university autonomy in the province. 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The  \narticle finds that changes in public policy in Manitoba’s post-secondary  \nsystem, and how that policy is implemented, have led to a progressive movement towards greater government intrusion in what heretofore have been internal matters at the province’s universities.  \nIntroduction  \n“This is the most serious attack on post-secondary education of which we are aware in Canada. And . . . if this is allowed to happen in Ontario, it will become government policy in other provinces,” wrote Jim Turk of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in 2012, responding to Ontario’s proposals to establish three-year degrees, mandate credit transfer, and require online course offerings (CAUT, 2012, p.1) . The implications are that university autonomy—the key concept in post-secondary education (Jones, 1998)—is being eroded in Canada. If true, this represents a significant development for Canadian post-secondary education, yet a rigorous analysis of the loss of autonomy in Canadian universities is rare and it is difficult to assess whether autonomy is actually threatened or if such warnings are rhetorical tools of interests seeking support for their particular causes.  \nAssessing these warnings nation-wide is difficult given that post-secondary systems, governance models, and policy direction differ from province to province. While broad trends in  \nuniversity governance across Canada are observable (Shanahan & Jones, 2007), case study allows for an assessment of allegations of threats to autonomy, albeit for a single system and during a specific timeframe. Accordingly, this article seeks to establish a principled examination of the erosion of autonomy by looking at the situation in Manitoba.  \nManitoba presents a unique opportunity to study changes in university autonomy because of its model of post-secondary system governance. Manitoba’s Council on PostSecondary Education (COPSE) is the only system-wide intermediary agency with executive powers in Canada (Shanahan & Jones, 2007). As an intermediary agency, COPSE is designed to sit between government and universities in part to buffer Manitoba’s five universities* from shorter term political priorities of government, thus helping to protect university autonomy (Sibley, 1982; Southern & Dennison, 1985; Mallea, 2002) . This approach has been in place in Manitoba since 1967 when the province established its first intermediary agency, the Universities Grants Commission (Saunders, 2006), which governed the province’s universities until replaced by COPSE in 1997.  \nThus, theoretically and legislatively at least, Manitoba’s governance system is intended to provide structural protection for university autonomy, and accordingly, universities in Manitoba should be better protected than provinces where such structures do not exist. Any evidence of increased intrusion into university affairs in a province with such protections might prove Turk’s warning: if university autonomy is eroding in Manitoba, it may be happening elsewhere.  \nAn examination of major legislative changes in Manitoba between 1997 and 2013, and an analysis of the impact of how such changes are implemented in practice using a military lens,  \n* Manitoba’s five universities are: the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, Brandon University, le Université de Saint-Boniface, and the University College of the North. COPSE also concerns itself with community colleges, which are not considered in this article.  \nspecifically concepts of strategy, operations, and tactics, resulted in evidence of growing government intrusion in a","cbCaip1VZFRT7rAj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip1VZFRT7rAj","pdf",426930,33,"English","# Introduction\n# Intermediary Agencies and University Autonomy\n## University governance and autonomy protection","[{\"question\":\"What central claim does the article make about Manitoba’s universities since 2006?\",\"answer\":\"The article argues that there has been a general loss of university autonomy in Manitoba since 2006 due to progressive government intrusion into matters previously handled internally by the universities.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is Manitoba considered a useful case study?\",\"answer\":\"Manitoba has a distinctive governance model in which COPSE is the only system-wide intermediary agency with executive powers in Canada, theoretically designed to buffer universities from short-term political priorities.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article assess legislative change from 1997 to 2013?\",\"answer\":\"It examines major legislative changes across that period and analyzes how implementation affects university autonomy, using concepts of strategy, operations, and tactics as an analytical lens.\"}]","THE EROSION OF UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY IN MANITOBA - Research analysis | PDF",1792083288,83]