In this Section I list some academic and career highlights, and in the Publications Section, I list some of my favourite publications.
Some of my academic and career highlights:
| Present |
Professor William G. Davis Chair in Community College Position Leadership, and Director, Doctorate in Community College Leadership, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. |
| 2002 | Delivered the Sisco Address at the Annual Conference of the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario |
| 2002 | Received the Distinguished Member Award, Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education |
| 2000 | Delivered the Jackson Lecture, University of Toronto Faculty Club, May 11, 2000 (title of lecture: "In Praise of Polarities In Postsecondary Education") |
| 2000 | Appointed to the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership |
| 1999 | Awarded Honourary Diploma, Humber College |
| 1990 | Recipient of First National Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research on Canadian higher education by the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education |
| 1984-2000 | Professor & Coordinator of Higher Education Programs, OISE and University of Toronto |
| 1981-1984 | Chair, Higher Education Group, OISE, and Associate Professor, Graduate Department of Education, University of Toronto. |
| 1977-1981 | Assistant Director (Administration), OISE, and Associate Professor, Graduate Department of Education, University of Toronto. |
| 1970-1973 | Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Planning, OISE. |
| 1973-1977 | Director of Research and Planning, Ontario Ministry of Labour |
| 1968-1970 | Lecturer, Department of Educational Planning, OISE. |
| 1966-1968 | Assistant Professor, Economics Department, and Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
| 1964-1966 | Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford University (Magdalen College). 1964 Flood Fellowship in Economics, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1963 | Phi Kappa Phi National Honour Society. |