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File consists of a draft paper written by Axelrod for publication in the Globe and Mail newspaper, "Campus initiations - a long and brutal history", as well as a letter copied to him by the parents of a University of Western Ontario student and fraternity member who died during an initiation ritual.

Item is a Axelrod's review of this book, written by Peter C. Emberley and Waller R. Newell and published by the University of Toronto Press in 1994.

File consists of correspondence, revision notes, and Axelrod's draft paper, "McGill University on the landscape of Canadian higher education: historical reflections", which he delivered to the James McGill Society on 29 April 1996 and offered for publication to McGill University. Included are overhead transparencies from his presentation, as well as a program for the event.

File consists of a notice and two annotated drafts of this paper, presented at a two-day conference held at the University of Toronto on 20-21 Jun 1998, "Academic issues in Canadian institutes of higher education: focus on fundamentals".

File consists of correspondence and a memorandum pertaining to the publication of Axelrod's book, "The promise of schooling", by the University of Toronto Press.

File consists of correspondence and two drafts of a proposal, written by Axelrod, Robert Gidney and Winnifred Millar, to write a history of the University of Toronto, submitted to the University of Toronto History Committee of the University of Toronto Press. A note in the file by Axelrod indicates that Martin Friedland got the contract to write the book, published in 2002.

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".

File consists of correspondence and a SSHRC grant application pertaining to a project entitled "Making policy in post-secondary education", headed by Axelrod.

File consists of the text of Axelrod's commentary about papers presented at a graduate education conference held on 12 April 2014.

File consists of articles and commentaries primarily written for publication and submitted to the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star newspapers but not published. These articles pertain to topics including violence on television, university policy and politics, Canadian politics, and liberal arts post-secondary education.

File consists of correspondence, author biographies and contracts pertaining to a review written by Axelrod for Canadian Historical Review and his book chapter for "Alternation education and training: preparing for work in the new economy".

File consists of correspondence, contracts and publishing agreements pertaining to the publication of Axelrod's books (as editor), book chapters, journal articles, reviews, and freelance newspaper articles.

Item is a draft review written by Axelrod about Paul Avrich's "The modern school movement: anarchism and education in the United States".

File consists of edit notes and three drafts of this article, "Negotiating the life course: structure, agency and the class of '73", written by Axelrod and Paul Anisef for presentation at the International Symposium on Restructuring Work and the Life Course at the University of Toronto on 7-9 May 1998.

File consists of a letter sent to Axelrod from the Ontario College of Teachers regarding an update to the College's casebook. Included is a table of contents for a publication entitled "Cases for teacher development: preparing for the classroom". Axelrod contributed content to chapter two of this publication, "Is the teacher's gender an issue in a kindergarten classroom?".

File consists of records pertaining to an Ontario College of Teachers leadership casebook entitled "Cases for leadership development", to which Axelrod contributed commentary for a case. These records are drafts of Axelrod's commentary, correspondence and notes.

File consists of correspondence, a publication agreement and a reader review pertaining to Axelrod's article, "Beyond the progressive education debate: a profile of Toronto schooling in the 1950s", published in the journal Historical Studies in Education.

File consists of a draft of this article by Axelrod, as well as correspondence regarding an invitation to publish this article in a volume on Argentine-Canadian education.

File consists of e-mail correspondence exchanged between Axelrod and Adrienne Chan regarding revisions to this chapter for publication in "The exchange university: corporatization of academic culture", edited by Chan and Donald Fisher.

File consists of correspondence and reader comments pertaining to this article by Axelrod, included as part of "Framing federalism for the twenty-first century: essays in honour of John T. Saywell".

File consists of correspondence and a copy-edited version of this review by Axelrod of Jeffrey D. Brison's book, "Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada: American philanthropy and the arts and letters in Canada", published by the American Historical Review.

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.

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.

File consists of draft text for an entry on normal schools written by Axelrod for the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education, published in 2008. Also included is correspondence and the Routledge standard contract and style guide.

File consists of a list of responses to the University of Toronto Press copy editor pertaining to edits of the manuscript for "Opportunity and uncertainty: life course experiences of the class of '73", by Axelrod, Paul Anisef, Etta Baichman-Anisef, Carl James and Anton Turrittin.

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.

File consists of a draft article written by Axelrod and Charles Levi entitled "A comparative perspective on universities in Canada and Great Britain during the Two World Wars", to be published in "Cultures, communities, and conflict: histories of Canadian universities and war", edited by Paul Stortz and E.L. Panayotidis. Included is a draft table of contents, correspondence, reader notes and suggested revisions for the article.

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.

File consists of correspondence and drafts of Axelrod's entry entitled "The university" for the Canadian Encyclopedia.

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.

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".

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".

Item is a paper by Robert Clift entitled "'But where's the money?' A historiographical analysis of Paul Axelrod's 'Scholars and dollars'", written for HIED 565A, taught by Bill Bruneau at the University of British Columbia.

Item is an e-mail sent to Axelrod by William Bruneau with edit comments and revisions pertaining to Axelrod's paper, "The politics of policy-making".

File consists of a letter sent to Axelrod by J. Donald Wilson, accompanied by his review of Axelrod's book, "The promise of schooling", which was published in the journal "Historical studies in education".

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.

File consists of page proofs of Axelrod and Paul Anisef's article, "Baby boomers in transition: life-course experiences of the 'Class of '73'", included as a chapter in the book "Restructuring work and the life course". Included is an accompanying letter from the University of Toronto Press, who published the book.

Item is an annotated draft text, "Opportunity and uncertainty: life course experiences of the class of '73", prepared by Axelrod for presentation at the 2000 conference of the Canadian History of Education Association.

File consists of Globe and Mail articles written by John Ibbitson on the subject of post-secondary education, as well as correspondence exchanged between Axelrod and Ibbitson on this subject.

File consists of author proofs for this article, co-written by Axelrod, "Against all odds? The enduring value of liberal education in universities, professions, and the labour market", published in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education. Included in the file is an abstract for the article and correspondence pertaining to the re-publication of part of the article as a chapter in a McGill-Queen's University Press book, "Integrating school and workplace learning in Canada".

File consists of records pertaining to Axelrod's presentation of a paper at "The University of Toronto and its histories: a symposium", held on 26 May 2002. Included is an event program, correspondence, notes and Axelrod's draft paper, "The University of Toronto through historians' eyes".

File consists of records pertaining to Axelrod's contract to write an entry on universities for the Oxford Companion to Canadian History". These records include correspondence exchanged with Oxford University Press, a letter of agreement, notes and a draft copy of Axelrod's entry.

File consists of a memorandum and letter pertaining to the resignation of Lauren MacDowell as editor of the journal "Ontario history".

File consists of three copies of this agreement, a blank copy and two copies issued to contributors Lesley Bellamy and John H. Lewko.