Origins
"In 1966 the Inter-Provincial Committee on University Rationalization (IPCUR) was established at the insistence of Western premiers, under the auspices of the Prairie Provinces Economic Council. The intention was the purposeful management of growth within the context of dramatic societal change. While still at the mid-pointof the post-war boom, governments and their agencies were becoming acutely conscious of their inability to support university costs at the rate of increase which had prevailed over the previous few years. IPCUR's mandate was to conduct a continuing study on how to develop and coordinate opportunities for higher education consonant with the resources of the prairie provinces, and to make recommendations to the three provincial governments....Its membership included the presidents of each university, and representatives from each province named by the appropriate minister of education.
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