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The ink was barely dry on Quebec’s 2014 budget announcement — seen by many as generally positive for post-secondary education in the province — before Premier Pauline Ma­rois announced a snap election, rendering the document moot. The budget allocated a […]

1920–2014 Alwyn Berland, un défenseur de longue date de la liberté académi­que et un ex-secrétaire général de l’ACPPU, est décédé le 1er mars 2014 à l’âge de 93 ans. Né à Chicago, il a combattu dans la US Navy pendant […]

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 […]

Strategies for integrative learning in college Tricia A. Ferrett, David R. Geelan, Whitney M. Schlegel & Joanne L. Stewart, eds. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013; 204 pp; ISBN: 978-0-25300-939-5, paper $26 USD. Informed by the scholarship of teaching and […]

The politics of knowledge production and the teaching of literatures in Canada Paul Martin. Edmonton, AB: The University of Alberta Press, 2013; 310 pp; ISBN: 978-0-88864-545-6, paper, $49.95 CAD. Multilingual, multicultural, and vast, Canada enjoys a rich diversity of literatures. […]

Peter Raabe. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013; 416 pp; ISBN: 978-0-76570-917-2, cloth, $95 USD. Peter Raabe argues that philosophy is an effective method in treating mental illness. Calling for a paradigm shift away from the standard belief that the […]

uOttawa criminologists Chris Bruckert (left) & Colette Parent have won their bid to keep their academic research confidential — the first time a Canadian court has recognized a researcher-participant privilege. Researchers across Canada won a major victory when police efforts […]

When the Harper government’s “new” Canadian Museum of History (CMH), announced a $1 million sponsorship from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), it risked placing the world-renowned museum in conflict with Canada’s First Nations — those whose cultu­ral heritage […]

The University of Guelph recently went through a “program prioritization pro­cess.” The prioritization exercise was reported in the Oct. 4, 2013 edition of the Guelph Mercury. I quote a part of this report: “The Uni­versity of Guelph hired Dickeson and […]

A group of more than 150 gathered at a CAUT organized town hall meeting in Vancouver Jan. 28, the sixth of a national series of events CAUT is sponsoring to foster discussion on Canada’s future in science & research. Science […]

A three-week strike by the Associ­ation of University of New Bruns­wick Teachers has ended with members voting overwhelmingly to accept a tentative deal hammered out with administrators in the last days of January. About 550 academic staff hit the picket […]