This is the final report of the external review of the administration of Trent University, otherwise known as the Arthurs-Lorimer Report of March 20, 1997.
 
The "official" version of this report was once readily available to the public on the Trent University website. Unfortunately it appears that the report and all its supporting documentation have, for some reason, been permanently removed and are no longer to be found on Trent's website. We believe this report continues to be of significant value to Trent and the administration must no longer continue to ignore it. Thus, we present Arthurs Lorimer Report here. Continue reading
 

Here is the document collection of the Arthurs-Lorimer External Review of the Administration of Trent University (1997). The documents were originally published on Trent's web site but are, for some strange reason, no longer available there. The documents have been slightly reformatted for this site. Any errors or omissions from the original text are accidental. The official copies should be regarded as authoritative. Continue reading
 

The Arthurs-Lorimer Report of 1997 must not be forgotten or buried!

If the Trent University Board of Governors and its President were to put in place strategies and action plans to address the serious weaknesses in Trent's governance and human resources procedures that were identified in the Arthurs-Lorimer report Trent would have long before now instituted proper strategic planning and proper management controls and measures of accountability and performance.

Trent should take seriously the problems identified in the Arthurs-Lorimer report. In doing so the Board will be taking appropriate action to provide management with training and backup support to enable them to govern the University in accordance with best practices.

If we ask ourselves how Trent can find what best practices are, where the best models are, and what can we borrow from others we will not have to reinvent the wheel ourselves. Continue reading