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Ling, Stephanie

File consists of e-mail correspondence and Axelrod's speaking notes honouring Stephanie Ling at a dinner held at the Gardiner Museum on 24 June 2008.

Toronto District School Board

File consists of a letter and proposal pertaining to a possible partnership between the Toronto District School Board and the York University Faculty of Education to created a centre for research and innovation on inclusive and community-engaged education.

Holocaust education program : speech

File consists of a program and Axelrod's speaking notes for a symposium, "Learning from the past, teaching for the future", sponsored by the Mark and Gail Appel Program in Holocaust and Antiracism Education, 7-17 February 2008.

Publication : review of Fisher et al

Item is Axelrod's draft review of "Canadian federal policy and postsecondary education" by Donald Fisher, Kjell Rubenson, Jean Bernatchez, Robert Clift, Glen Jones, Jacy Lee, Madeleine MacIvor, John Meredith, Theresa Shanahan, and Claude Trottier, published in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education in 2008.

Dean retirement : 2008

File consists of Axelrod's notes and speech for his 10 June 2008 retirement dinner, as well as written remarks about his retirement as Dean of the Faculty of Education by Alice Pitt, and joke lyrics to a song entitled "Hey, Paul" to the tune of "Hey, Paula".

Left History reviews 2008

Item is a letter from Beth Palmer, the book review editor of Left History, to Axelrod regarding his reviews of two books for the journal.

Teaching

File consists of correspondence and memoranda pertaining to Axelrod's annual teaching assignments and graduate student supervisions in the Faculty of Education at York between 2010 and 2014.

Publication : "No longer a 'last resort'"

File consists of correspondence exchanged between Axelrod and the editors of the Canadian Historical Review pertaining to revisions to Axelrod's article, "No longer a 'last resort': the end of corporal punishment in the schools of Toronto".

Publication : York U magazine

Item is a draft article by Axelrod entitled "Moving up and selling out - or not", published in the April 2009 edition of the York University Magazine.

York Centre for Education and Community

File consists of a planning document, a governance and membership working document, governance and membership policies, agendas, advisory committee member biographies, a pamphlet, steering and executive committee minutes, notes, and project spreadsheet. Axelrod was a member of the Centre's executive committee.

Academic Matters blog

Item is the text of a blog entry entitled "Dumping on the students - again" written by Axelrod for the Academic Matters blog of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.

CHEA conference York 2010

File consists of a programme, poster and article pertaining to the 16th biennial conference of the Canadian History of Education Association, held at York University and sponsored by the Faculty of Education.

YUFA research development fellowship application

File consists of Axelrod's 2010 application form, project description and letters of reference pertaining to YUFA Research Development Fund support for his projects "Policy-making in post-secondary education, 1990-2007" and "A history of schooling in Toronto, 1945-1980".

Publication : correspondence : African journal

File consists of a letter sent to Axelrod from the Canadian Education Association regarding his article, "African journal: schooling and politics in rural Kenya: public money for private schools?" and its publication online with a non-exclusive Creative Commons license.

Publication : making policy : HEP revisions

File consists of correspondence, reader comments and a corrected proof pertaining to Axelrod's paper, co-written with Roopa Desai-Trilokekar, Theresa Shanahan and Richard Wellen, entitled "People, processes, and policy-making in Canadian post-secondary education, 1990-2000", published in the journal "Higher Education Policy".

York Centre for Education and Community

File consists of a planning document, executive committee minutes, and a chart pertaining to the York Centre for Education and Community. Axelrod was a member of the executive committee.

Conference : policy formation in turbulent times : March 15-17, 2012

File consists of records pertaining to Axelrod's organization of a conference on policy formation in post-secondary education held in Toronto on 15-17 March 2012. These records are correspondence, a conference overview, notes, biographies, a participant list, a draft itinerary and a report on the conference.

OCUFA media conference

File consists of Axelrod's notes pertaining to the 2011 OCUFA conference on media and higher education held on 17 June 2011.

Conference : transformation

Item is a detailed itinerary for this conference, "Transformation: state, nation and citizenship in a new environment: a conference on the future of political history", held at York University on 13-15 October 2011. Axelrod was a presenter at this conference with York colleagues Roopa Desai Trilokekar and Theresa Shanahan on "The politics of policy-making in post-secondary education: Ottawa and Ontario, 1990-2000".

Danforth Jewish Circle : chair's message

File consists of draft text written by Axelrod for the "Message from the chair" portion of the Danforth Jewish Circle's bimonthly newsletter from December 2012 to December 2013.

Academic colleague presentation for Senate (COU) : 2012-14

File consists of a contact list of Council of Ontario Universities (COU) academic colleagues for 2012-2013, a list of committees and members associated with the COU for 2012-2013, and Axelrod's slides for presentations made as an academic colleague of the COU to the Senate of York University in 2013 and 2014.

Merit awards

Item is a memorandum from Faculty of Education Dean Alice Pitt to Axelrod informing him of his YUFA merit award for 2011-12.

Academic colleague report to Senate

File consists of Axelrod's speaking notes and slides for this presentation to the Senate of York University as an academic colleague of the Council of Ontario Universities.

Honorary doctorate : Rick Mercer nomination

File consists of a letter written by Axelrod in support of Rick Mercer's honorary doctorate from York University 2013. Included with this letter is a 2014 handwritten note to the file by Axelrod about Mercer.

Quality assurance council

Item is a letter sent to Axelrod by Sam Scully, chair of the Quality Council Audit Committee of the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance, thanking Axelrod for his service as chair of the committee in 2013-2014.

PEQAB file : Conestoga College : quality assurance

File consists of correspondence, an employment agreement and assessment guidelines pertaining to Axelrod's work as a quality assessor for the Government of Ontario's Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board (PEQAB) to examine the Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning's Bachelor of Applied Technology (architecture - project and facility management) program.

Rankings article 2014

Item is an article entitled "Op-ed describes university rankings as flawed intellectual shortcuts" published on the Academica Group website. The article references Axelrod's 10 November 2014 op-ed piece for the National Post newspaper.

SSHRC application : privatization

File consists of SSHRC grant application documents pertaining to Axelrod's project entitled "Educational privatization and the new economy in Canada".

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