Bibliographic record
Abstract
There is something old and something new in the historiography of Canadian higher education.If you stroll through the stacks of any university library and examine what was published on the history of universities before the 1970s, this is what you would be likely to find: volumes of institutional biographies written by ex-presidents or retiring professors in which the themes of struggle, endurance, survival, and accomplishment dominate.The specific issues in such accounts include the activities of successive dedicated presidents, fund-raising efforts, descriptions of new buildings and new academic programs, and the careful recording of football championships.The struggle and survival theme matters, and, in all likelihood, is a central part of the story of every Canadian university.It is also fairly safe to say that one can take for granted the devotion to their institutions of university presidents, chancellors, and other senior administrators, except perhaps in the case of the chairman of the board at the University of Manitoba who, in 1932, was found to have embezzled nearly 1 million dollars over the previous three decades. 1 However important, the stories of institutional endurance and dedicated individuals are not necessarily the most interesting themes.More stimulating, and more significant historiographically, at least to me, is the study of the university's intellectual, cultural, and social worlds-and how these have cast light on the life of the community in which the university is situated.New research in the last quarter-century has grappled creatively with the evolving academic experience.Reflecting the impact primarily of intellectual and social history, the historiography of higher education now explores the ways in which ideas are cultivated and transmitted within and beyond universities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.117 | 0.012 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".