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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 correspondence and notes pertaining to York University's Faculty of Education teacher education site in Regent Park in Toronto and the effect of community redevelopment projects on York's program in 2008. Included is a video recording of Axelrod speaking at the 2002 opening of the Faculty's teacher education site in Regent Park.

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

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.

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

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

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 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".

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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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, 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, 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

File pertains to a conference pertaining to the work of Hilda Neatby, at which Axelrod presented a paper, sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan and held on 26-27 March 2004. Included is an agenda, a notice and correspondence.

Item is a grant proposal for a conference entitled "The Canadian student experience: patterns, prospects and politics" to be held in November 2004 and sponsored by the York Network for the Study of Schooling and Higher Education, the York Faculty of Education and Office of the Vice-President.

File consists of correspondence, an agenda, and Axelrod's notes for a workshop on universities and public policy, "What does government want from universities? Recent patterns in higher education policy", held on 10 September 2004 at the University Club of Toronto. Axelrod was invited to the workshop by Allan Tupper, a political science professor from the University of British Columbia and its Associate Vice President (Government Relations).

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.

Item is a program for a conference held at the University of Toronto's University College on 26 May 2002, "The University of Toronto and its histories: a symposium", at which Axelrod presented a paper entitled "The University of Toronto through historians' eyes".

File consists of an agenda, correspondence and a draft of this paper presented by Axelrod at the 17 January 2003 Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations conference on "The future of Ontario universities: challenges and opportunities".

File consists of correspondence, notices and notes on presentation papers pertaining to Axelrod's participation in a symposium held at Dalhousie University on 28 May 2003, "Learning to practise: professional education in historical and contemporary perspective".

File consists of correspondence and notes pertaining to Axelrod's invitation to speak at a conference of the Western Deans of Arts and Science held in Nanaimo on 25-27 September 2003.

File consists of correspondence and a program for an Encounter Canada conference on the subject of privatization and education, held at McLaughlin College at York University on 24 October 2002. Axelrod was part of a panel on "the dimensions and options of privatization".

File consists of a program, correspondence and copies of this paper presented by Axelrod at "International colloquium: transformation of academic culture: capital accumulation and international competitiveness" in Halifax on 29 May 2003 and at a colloquium honouring Dr. G. Edward Hall at the University of Western Ontario on 12 April 2003.

File consists of correspondence and draft copies of this paper by Axelrod, presented on 28 May 2002 at this conference held at the University of Toronto.

File consists of correspondence and the text of Axelrod's address to the History Students' Association at the University of Ottawa's History Department end-of-term gala on 5 April 2002.

File consists of Axelrod's paper presented at this conference on 7 May 1998, "Negotiating the life course: structure and agency in the class of '73", as well as overhead transparencies used in the presentation.

Item is a program from a conference held at the University of Toronto, "Academic issues in Canadian institutions of higher education: focus on fundamentals", at which Axelrod presented a paper entitled "The ironies of academic freedom".

File consists of a call for conference papers for the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE), correspondence, and copies of Axelrod's paper proposal for the conference.

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 an abstract and paper written by Axelrod for the Conference of the Canadian History of Education Association, held on 17-20 October 1996.