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Paul Axelrod fonds

  • F0224
  • Fonds
  • 1950-2021

Fonds consists of records pertaining primarily to Paul Axelrod's academic writing and career as a university professor and administrator. These records include personal and professional correspondence, draft manuscripts and articles, academic papers, course materials, audio recordings, photographs and other research materials.

Axelrod, Paul Douglas.

Research and writing files

Series consists of records pertaining to the research, writing, editing, publication and promotion of Axelrod’s books, including his PhD thesis, "The economy, government and the universities of Ontario, 1945-1973”, which was republished as "Scholars and dollars: politics, economics and the universities of Ontario, 1945-1980", "Making a middle class: student life in English Canada during the Thirties", "Transitions: schooling and employment in Canada" (co-editor with Paul Anisef), "The promise of schooling: education in Canada, 1800-1914", "Youth, university and Canadian society: essays in the social history of higher education" (co-editor with John G. Reid), "Opportunity and uncertainty: life course experiences of the class of '73" (co-writer with Paul Anisef), "Values in conflict: the university, the marketplace and the trials of liberal education" and "Knowledge matters: essays in honour of Bernard J. Shapiro" (editor), as well as his various articles, reviews, conference papers, and commentaries. Records in this series are research materials, correspondence, draft manuscripts, audio recordings, photographs, interview transcripts, book proofs, reader reports, publishing contracts, speaking notes and promotional materials.

Academic files

Series consists of Axelrod's high school, undergraduate and graduate school essays, speeches, drafts of articles written for student newspapers and other materials that document his involvement with student organizations including the Council of the York Student Federation, the Ontario Federation of Students and the Ontario Union of Students, as well as his research interest in post-secondary education and the student union movement. These records include publications, papers, articles and news releases.

Correspondence files

Series consists of personal and professional correspondence consisting of manuscript and typescript copies of letters received by Axelrod and, in many cases, copies of letters written by Axelrod himself.

Canadian Union of Students : publications

File consists of papers published and distributed by the Canadian Union of Students. The authors of these papers include academics and students, and the subject matter pertains mainly to education, politics, equality rights, student government, labour unions, and economics.

Ontario Union of Students : papers and resolutions

File consists of resolutions for an OUS conference held at Glendon College, a paper by Ken Stone entitled "To the students of Castle Frank", a paper written by Wayne Hankey entitled "The representivity game", and an unattributed paper presented at an OUS conference in Guelph entitled "Academocracy".

Canadian Union of Students : publications

File consists of papers published and distributed by the Canadian Union of Students. The authors of these papers include academics and students, and the subject matter pertains mainly to education, politics, equality rights, student government, labour unions, and economics.

Miscellaneous papers

File consists of papers and essays written by students and academics pertaining to a variety of subjects concerning post-secondary education, socialism and student activism, accumulated by Axelrod through his involvement with the student union movement.

Miscellaneous papers

File consists of papers and essays written by students and academics pertaining to a variety of subjects concerning post-secondary education, socialism and student activism, accumulated by Axelrod through his involvement with the student union movement.

Professorial files

Series consists of records documenting Axelrod's career as a university professor and administrator. Many records pertain in particular to his role as Dean of the Faculty of Education at York University between 2001 and 2008, as well as his work on committees (Ontario Association of Deans of Education, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations). Included are correspondence, job applications, course outlines and student evaluations for courses taught by Axelrod, copies of research grant applications, past tenure files, photographs, reports, speeches, assessments, conference materials, newspaper and magazine articles.

Student articles on engineering

File consists of copies of student articles accumulated by Axelrod about problems with engineering education and the profession in general.

Undergraduate courses : York

File consists of a student's guide to York University course Social Science 372, "The Canadian state: a problem of viability", for the 1969-1970 term, as well as a syllabus for History 152, "Canadian West", for the 1976-1977 term.

Photographs of airplanes

File consists of four photographs of airplanes: a Dash7 plane, a plane in flight in the skyline of Toronto, a float plane, and an Air Canada plane.

Miscellaneous student union pamphlets

File consists of a National Union of Students pamphlet entitled "It's your movement", a booklet prepared by the Council of the York Federation of Students entitled "Post-secondary education in Ontario: Do you know what's happening? Do you care?", and a Glendon College Student Council pamphlet entitled "A university is for people".

Graduate history (MA) : seminar paper

Item is a paper by Axelrod entitled "The urban response to industrialization", prepared for a Canadian history seminar at the University of Toronto in 1972-1973.

Published articles

File consists of copies of Axelrod's published newspaper, magazine and journal articles.

Graduate history (MA) : essay

Item is Axelrod's marked essay entitled "Environmentalism and continentalism: Canadian historical writing in the 1930s" for HIST 1149 at the University of Toronto.

Published articles

File consists of copies of Axelrod's published newspaper, magazine and journal articles.

Graduate history (PhD) : HIST 512

File consists of a course syllabus and Axelrod's notes for this course, HIST 512, "The historical study of social and family structure", which he audited at York University.

Unpublished articles/commentaries

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.

J.B. Macdonald

Item is an audio recording of an interview with J.B. Macdonald, the executive secretary of the Council of Ontario Universities.

Interview : Dr. Douglas Wright

Item is an audio recording of an interview with Dr. Douglas Wright, former chairman of the CUA and chairman of the Commission on Post-Secondary Education.

Stanley Deeks

Item is an audio recording of two interviews with Stanley Deeks, the former executive director of the Industrial Foundation on Education.

Letter to editor

Item is a newspaper clipping of a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail co-signed by Axelrod regarding Pierre Trudeau's comments on unemployed students.

Soviet historian view of Canadian history

Item is a short essay on the visit of Soviet historian Valeri Tiskov to the Department of History at York and an explanation of the interest of Soviet historians in the history of Canada, as explained by Tiskov in a seminar and recounted by the author of the essay.

Students at Acadia

File consists of a code sheet and a chart comprised of information about students who studied at Acadia University between 1921 and 1940.

Miscellaneous photographs

  • 2008-035/002(7)
  • File
  • Reproduced [198-?], originally created [192-?]-1976

    • Part of Paul Axelrod fonds

File consists of photographs of a variety of scenes and objects, including the Welland Canal, 1920s cars, a VIA Rail train, a sign pertaining to gas rationing in Vancouver, aerial views of urban and rural areas, and cars on the Queensway in Ottawa (1976).

Publication : review : Avrich

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

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