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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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

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.

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.

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".

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.

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

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

Item is a letter sent by Axelrod to Dr. Najm, who was the chair of the Ad Hoc Committee of Board of Governors on Retrenchment at OISE, pertaining to OISE's termination of professors Harold Troper and David Levine.

File consists of a cover letter, a list of references and York University guidelines for faculty on sabbatical pertaining to Axelrod's application for a 1988 Canadian Visiting Fellowship at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Item is a memorandum sent by York University president David W. Slater pertaining to the status of negotiations between the University and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

File consists of correspondence, memoranda and a conference programme pertaining to Axelrod's membership in CHEA and his presentation of a paper, "Higher education, utilitarianism and the acquisitive society: Canada 1930-1980", at a joint conference of CHEA and the History of Education Society held in Vancouver on 14-16 October 1983.

File consists of records pertaining to the Ontario Union of Students' January 1970 and May 1971 conferences, as well as the Union's financial statement for 1 June 1969 to 16 January 1970.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

File consists of notes pertaining to the study of history and to a historiographic approach to quantitative history, written by Axelrod.

File consists of handwritten notes pertaining to Axelrod's PhD comprehensive examinations at York University in 1975.

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.

File consists of a course syllabus and a draft essay by Axelrod pertaining to his enrollment in a York University political science course, "The political development of Canada".

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

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.

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

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.

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".

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".

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

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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, 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.

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 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.

File consists of correspondence and a sample contract pertaining to a censorship research project and publication of a book, "Censorship in Canada today", edited by Klaus Petersen and Allan Hutchinson and published by the University of Toronto Press in 1999, for which Axelrod authored a paper entitled "The ironies of academic freedom".

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

File consists of correspondence, publication guidelines and a copy of Axelrod's paper, "Transitions, the life course, and the Class of '73: implications for social policy", presented at the Research and Policy Symposium on Youth in Transition to Adulthood held in Kananaskis on 25-29 April 1995.

File consists of correspondence, reader assessments, a publication agreement, suggested revisions and a draft of this paper written by Axelrod and submitted for publication to the journal Historical Studies in Education.

File consists of correspondence, assessor reports, and two drafts of this paper written by Axelrod and submitted unsuccessfully for publication in the Journal of Canadian Studies.

File consists of correspondence and two drafts of Axelrod's review of A.B. McKillop's book, "Matters of mind: the university in Ontario, 1791-1951", published by the Literary Review of Canada in 1994.

File consists of correspondence sent to Axelrod as reader responses to this paper, which was published in the journal Labour/Le Travail in 1995.

File consists of correspondence pertaining to a request from Brill Publishers to reprint an article written by Axelrod with Paul Anisef entitled "Baby boomers in transition: life course experiences of the 'Class of '73'", which was originally published by the University of Toronto Press in "Restructuring work and the life course" in 2001.

File consists of correspondence, a reader review and a draft of this article written by Axelrod for publication in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education. A copy of the published article is also included in the file.

File consists of draft manuscripts of chapters six and seven of Axelrod's book, "Making a middle class: student life in English Canada during the Thirties".

File consists of correspondence and Axelrod's draft review of David M. Cameron's book, "More than an academic question: universities, government and public policy in Canada" for the Literary Review of Canada.

Item is a draft of Axelrod's paper entitled "Service or captivity? : business-university relations in the Twentieth Century".

Item is a commentary written by Axelrod regarding Canadian Historical Association papers written by Linda Ambrose ("Canadian youth in the 1940s: helping to shape the postwar society") and Nicole Neatby ("Student leaders at the University of Montreal, 1950-1958: behind the 'Carabin persons'").

File consists of correspondence and a travel grant application pertaining to Axelrod's attendance at a conference held on 9-12 December 1993 at Monash University in Melbourne, co-sponsored by Australia and New Zealand History of Education Society and the Canadian History of Education Association, and his presentation of a paper entitled "Spying on the young: RCMP surveillance of students and youth in Canada, 1935-1942".

Item is the text of a lecture delivered by Axelrod entitled "Student life in the 1930s".

File pertains to Axelrod's paper presented at a conference held at the University of Victoria and its inclusion in a subsequent book of collected papers, "Universities in crisis", edited by William A.M. Neilson and Chad Gaffield. Included in the file is a letter from Gaffield to Axelrod, notes and drafts of Axelrod's paper.

Item pertains to this conference held at York University at which Axelrod participated as a discussion group chair.

File consists of journal articles that cite Axelrod's work.

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.

File consists of correspondence pertaining to the organization of this conference and Axelrod's participation as the chair of a session entitled "Policy perspectives, provincial".

File consists of speaking notes and a copy of this paper, "The character of Canadian higher education: an historical perspective", presented by Axelrod at the 2006 conference of the Canadian Study of Higher Education at York University.

File consists of a 1981 script written by Axelrod for CBC Radio about post-secondary education in Ontario, as well as his notes for a Ryerson radio interview, notes for his appearance on CBC Radio's "Metro Morning" program in September 2002, and a transcript of a 1995 episode of CBC Radio's "Ideas" program entitled "Tales out of school: universities", featuring commentary by Axelrod and others.

File consists of Axelrod's notes and a draft summary of discussion from a meeting of the "Ginger Group" on the proposed Council on Higher Education, held on 19 April 2005.