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William G. Bowen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013; 192 pp; ISBN: 978-0-69115-930-0, cloth $26.95 USD. Review by Derek Briton In his Ethics (I.3,) Aristotle notes: “a well-schooled man is one who searches for that degree of precision in each […]

How technology and the public are shaping TV news Rena Bivens. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2014; 336 pp; ISBN: 978-1-44261-586-1, paper $32.95 CAD. Social media has irrevocably changed how people consume the news. With the distinction between professional […]

Triumph of the BRICs? Martin Carnoy, Prashant Loyalka, Maria Dobryakova, Rafiq Dossani, Isak Froumin, Katherine Kuhns, Jandhyala B.G. Tilak & Rong Wang. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013; 404 pp; ISBN: 978-0-80478-601-0, cloth $60 USD. This is a study […]

New essays on women, gender, work and nation Catherine Carstairs & Nancy Janovicek, eds. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2013; 302 pp; ISBN: 978-0-77482-619-8, cloth $95 CAD. In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to “rethink” Canada […]

Creating and sustaining communities of inquiry Norman D. Vaughan, Martha Cleveland-Innes & D. Randy Garrison. Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press, 2013; 154 pp; ISBN: 978-1-92735-647-0, paper $24.95 CAD. Teaching in Blended Learning Environments provides a coherent framework in which to […]

Le recteur Robert Campbell quitte l’auditorium Wu à la suite des autres dirigeants de l’Université Mount Allison après avoir ajourné une réunion du conseil du personnel académique le 3 avril. Dans un geste de protestation, les membres du personnel présents […]

[Clerkenwell / VETTA / Getty images] A controversial new report is claiming that just under 20 per cent of faculty in Ontario are not “research active” and should have their teaching loads doubled. Teaching Loads and Research Outputs of On­tario […]

[Ian Glover / Flickr] BC’s Finance Minister Mike de Jong may have characterized his recent budget as “boring, balanced,” and “the right plan for British Columbia,” but critics are slamming it as a wrong and misguided plan for post-secondary education […]

Just prior to the 2014 federal budget, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives unveiled its own alternative federal budget. For almost 20 years, CCPA has been producing an annual fiscal strategy to show what could be done if the federal […]

The principal of King’s University College in London, Ontario, has lifted the ban he’d imposed on professor Ken Luckhardt. In response, CAUT has announced it will not be proceeding with censure of the school’s administration at its upcoming council meeting. […]

Alwyn Berland, longtime academic freedom advocate and a former executive secretary of CAUT, passed away March 1, 2014, at age 93. Born in Chicago, he was a WWII Navy veteran, University of Chicago graduate, Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, professor […]

Living death in higher education Andrew Whelan, Ruth Walker & Christopher Moore, eds. Bristol, UK & Chicago, IL: Intellect Ltd, 2013; 312 pp; ISBN: 978-1-84150-714-9, paper $28.50 USD. Review by David Bright Diagnoses of a malaise within higher education are […]