Bibliographic record
Abstract
However, I had previously taught for several years at the University of Windsor and University of Calgary law schools before spending 20 years in a variety of administrative roles at the University of Western Ontario, including dean of law and vice-president administration and general counsel.I have also continued as one of the instructors in the Senior University Administrators Course, which has enabled me to stay abreast of Canadian higher education.Only a couple of generations ago, senior administrators and trustees of Canadian colleges and universities held office for terms -20 or 30 years was not uncommon -that would be unthinkable today.The sheer operational complexity and the intense regulatory and political scrutiny to which institutions are subject has meant that the average term of office of a dean or a president or a board chair has significantly and steadily declined.Today's university is engaged with many more external constituencies, particularly in its research operations, and these engagements often feature separate structures that can sometimes behave as if they are autonomous.Faculty members, as well, more frequently engage in research and other academic projects beyond the boundaries of their home institution.Virtually all these changes increasingly raise the spectre of potential legal action on any number of grounds, and in a way that is menacing to the layperson.Degree programs in education administration and other sorts of training and education workshops typically include a legal component, but there are few accessible resources available.In-house counsel, where they exist, are obviously a valuable resource but only if they
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.349 | 0.263 |
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".