Susan McCahan, the vice-provost of innovations in undergraduate education at the University of Toronto, is leading a university-wide effort to link all the school’s data to generate ideas about what kinds of indicators, alone and in combination, best predict graduation rates.

Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto is a curious indulgence in broad, inclusive — and very, very long — cultural history in a place that has typically worn its amnesia like a badge of honour. Indeed, the exhibition, hosted by the University of Toronto’s Art Museum and curated with loving care by Luis Jacob, an artist with an admirably stubborn devotion to our forward-looking hometown, offers a very different view.