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Geoff Tesson
The government of Ontario has announced its intention to grant University degree-granting status to The Northern Ontario School of Medicine and the College Universaire de Hearst.
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While Ross Romano, the minister of Colleges and Universities, presents this move as a natural evolution to a state of maturity, it is anything but that. I have no comment on the Hearst situation other than that the small faculty at Hearst has done an outstanding job under difficult circumstances of bringing high quality university level education to francophone students in the north. I do not know whether they view university status as helping them further their mandate, but I wish them well.