Increases sought in all areas

Universities are seeking up to $1.9 billion over the next four years to maintain and build upon Canada’s reinvigorated university research base. Armed with freshly compiled data demonstrating the impact of investments in university research, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) is hoping that the productivity Budget promised by Finance minister Ralph Goodale will allow post-secondary institutions to tap into a bulging federal surplus now estimated at more than $10 billion.