Ed Carson, who stepped down from his position as president of Penguin Group Canada in May, is starting a new job as chief business and associate director at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. His department has been charged with the task of doubling enrollment, and Carson will be “running the business and professional portfolio and looking at the overall business model,” he said.
Attending BEC as a guest of Penguin, Carson told Q&Q the job is in some ways bringing his career full circle, because he began his work-life studying at the University of Toronto to be a professor of English literature. But he said it is not such a dramatic step away from publishing – respectively comparing lectures, books, and students in his new role to authors, books, and audiences in his former one. It is, in a way, “a branding exercise,” he said, noting that the university wants students to consider U of T for the kind of after-degree training they might often look for in a school like Ryerson.
