Résumé

Professor Michael Krashinsky has the Chair of the Division of Management since July 1, 2003. He has been a faculty member at UTSC since 1973, and was promoted to Full Professor in 1989. He has extensive administrative experience, having been Associate Dean from 1982 to 1985, and having twice served as the Acting Chair of Management when the previous Chair was on leave (in 1993-94 and 1998-99). Professor Krashinsky has a deep commitment to undergraduate education, and won UTSC’s teaching award in 1995. This coming year he will be teaching one section of the two Introductory Economics courses and two sections of his third-year Law and Economics course.

Michael Krashinsky was born in Montreal and went to Boston in 1964 to do his undergraduate work at M.I.T. He graduated in 1968, and after spending a year teaching Engineering at Loyola (now Concordia) in Montreal, he went to Yale University to pursue doctoral studies in Economics. Professor Krashinsky received his Ph.d. in 1973 and came to UTSC. He has lived in Scarborough since then and has three grown children. He currently lives close to UTSC with his wife and two dogs.

Professor Krashinsky is an active researcher, specializing in applied microeconomics and in public finance. His research examines the ways in which economic theory can be brought to bear to understand government involvement in economic policy. He has authored or co-authored five books and numerous articles. His primary research interest is early childhood education and care, but he has also written recently about other social services, about the economics of nonprofit organizations, and about the impact of economic events on recent Canadian elections. In the summer of 2003, he released a study (with Professor Cleveland, also at UTSC) entitled Fact and Fantasy: Eight Myths About Early Childhood Education and Care (the study can be purchased, but it can also be read online at www.childcarecanada.org) Professor Krashinsky is currently working with Professor Cleveland on a project examining how nonprofit and for-profit child care centres differ and how these differences might be relevant to an expansion of public funding for child care.