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Most Educated, Least Productive: Why We’re Struggling and How We Change

September 2024 Members' Meeting

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) Members’ Meeting, hosted by BHER member TELUS at their Toronto office. 

We purposely facilitated a conversation about post-secondary education’s financial sustainability crisis, its role in producing the talent Canada needs, and industry’s productivity and growth crisis. Why? Because they aren’t separate problems for post-secondary or industry to solve on their own. 

As the only organization in Canada that brings together leaders from businesses and post-secondary institutions, BHER and our members are uniquely positioned to drive change. 

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Thank you to our speakers for leading the conversation

Special thanks also to Darren Entwistle and his team at TELUS for hosting us, and to Ontario’s Minister of Finance Hon. Peter Bethlenfalvy for joining us.


The Honourable Peter Bethlenfalvy
Ontario’s Minister of Finance


Neil Fassina
President, Okanagan College 

 


Sandy McIntosh
Executive Vice-President, People & Culture and Chief Human Resources Officer, TELUS


Sophie D’Amours
 Rectrice, Université Laval
 


Gervan Fearon
President, George Brown College
 
 


Dave McKay
Chief Executive Officer, RBC




 


John Stackhouse
Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, RBC


Frances Donald
Chief Economist, RBC
 


Goldy Hyder
President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada


Brian Rosenberg
 President Emeritus, Macalester College and Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Author of Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education


Val Walker
Chief Executive Officer, Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER)


Darren Entwistle
Chief Executive Officer, TELUS
 


Rhonda Lenton
President and Vice Chancellor, York University
 
 


Heather Scoffield
Senior Vice-President, Business Council of Canada

 

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