Contributed to Times Higher Education by Daniel Jutras (published September 3, 2025). Daniel Jutras is Chair of U15 Canada and Rector of l’Université de Montréal.
World in ‘flux’ makes it very difficult to predict what’s coming but research-intensive grouping ‘prepared for anything’, according to Daniel Jutras
Canadian universities face significant financial shortfalls and a cap on international students, and must compete for the attention of a new government battling many fronts – but stand to benefit enormously from the plight of rival institutions in the US suffering under Donald Trump.
In such a world of “flux”, it is easy to see why Daniel Jutras, new chair of the U15 organisation of Canadian research universities, said the group finds itself at a “crossroads”….