Natasha Mrkic-Subotic (Capilano University) argues that the British Columbia postsecondary system needs to change its response to the technological shifts affecting the workforce. The issue, she says, is the time it takes for decisions to be made compared to the speed of change in the labour market, which increasingly relies on AI. Mrkic-Subotic makes several suggestions to mitigate these issues, including clearer institutional mandates, strategies for reading labour market signals and investment in employees. “None of this requires dismantling shared governance,” said Mrkic-Subotic. “It requires distinguishing between the decisions that genuinely need broad deliberation and the ones that have been caught in that process because no one built a faster lane.”
