A Prairie 'Dust Devil;'1The Rise and Decline of A Research Institute

In 1963 the administrative head of a Canadian social science research institute prohibited the private circulation and the independent publication of several research reports produced by permanent and part-time members of the staff. The Institute was located on a university campus, but it was not an integral part of the university. It was chartered and financed mainly by a provincial government. Several years earlier, the establishment of this Institute had been greeted with national and international acclaim. By mid-1962, however, the enterprise was obviously declining without ever having realized its promise. The size and quality of the research staff had begun to decrease. The prohibitions of 1963 were actually symptoms rather than causes, although they accentuated the downgrading. Less than a year later, the Province cut off its annual grant to the Institute. Within the next year, the Institute was being eased off campus by the host university, and its basic {i.e., Ph.D.) scientists had left

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