Strategic Benefits, Symbolic Commitments: How Canadian Colleges and Universities Frame Internationalization

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Early Canadian chiropractic colleges.

Chiropractic education arrived in Canada, principally in Ontario, in 1909 with Robbins Chiropractic Institute, (RIC) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. After the RIC's closure in 1913, the Canadian Chiropractic College (CCC) Hamilton, Ontario, held its first classes in 1914 under Dr. Ernest Du Val, 1911 Palmer School of Chiropractic graduate. It was during this period that the Hodgins Commission on...

Buyer groups as strategic commitments

Buyer cooperatives, buyer alliances, and horizontal mergers are often perceived as attempts to increase buyer power. While prior theoretical and empirical work has emphasized that buyer size can increase buyer surplus, I show that even a small group of buyers with heterogeneous preferences can increase price competition among rival sellers by forming a buyer group and committing to buy exclusiv...

Establishing Good Laboratory Practice at Small Colleges and Universities†

Misconceptions, also known as alternate conceptions, about key concepts often hinder the ability of students to learn new knowledge. Concept inventories (CIs) are designed to assess students' understanding of key concepts, especially those prone to misconceptions. Two-tiered CIs include prompts that ask students to explain the logic behind their answer choice. Such two-tiered CIs afford an oppo...

Countermeasures of Establishing Innovative Teaching Teams in Colleges and Universities

Aiming at problems existing in the process of establishing innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, the paper brings forward the basic characteristics of innovative teaching teams and the countermeasures of establishing innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, which include improving study structure of the teams, continuous study and strengthening continuous innova...