"The real University has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been bought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. It's a state of mind which is regenerated throughout the centuries by a body of people who traditionally carry the title professor, but even that title is not part of the real University. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself."

Excerpted from the 1974 novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig.

About Dale Kirby
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I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University of Newfoundland where I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Post-Secondary Education Studies.

I am a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland (BSc 1998; MEd 2000) and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (PhD 2003).

I am a seventh generation Newfoundlander, originally from Lord's Cove on the Burin Peninsula where generations of my family have lived and worked in inshore fishing industries.

Interests


My research interests in post-secondary education are relatively wide-ranging and include apprenticeship and skilled trades training; 'college' choice; finance and economics of post-secondary education; history of higher education; inter-institutional collaboration in post-secondary education; interprofessional education in health sciences professions; student persistence in post-secondary education; and student financial assistance.

My personal interests include camping and the great outdoors, home improvement (not the TV show), travel, current events, politics and government.

Post-Secondary Education Blog


My blog, Adventures in Canadian Post-Secondary Education, is devoted to the identification and discussion of major issues, policies, practices, problems and research in Canadian Post-Secondary Education. You may visit the blog at http://post-secondary.blogspot.com. I encourage you to comment on and discuss the items posted there, and to forward the blog's address to anyone who may be interested.

Dr. Dale Kirby
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m. and Thursdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. or by appointment

Office: E-3043
Tel: 709.737.7623
Fax: 709.737.2345
E-mail: dkirby(at)mun.ca






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