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Le nouvel atelier de l'ACPPU Bâtir une association plus solide propose des stratégies pour accroître l'engagement des membres. Dans le cadre de son programme de formation, l’ACPPU propose un nouvel atelier intitulé Bâtir une association plus solide. L’atelier a pour […]

Chris Bruckert (left) & Colette Parent are asking Quebec Superior Court to preserve vital confidentiality. Two University of Ottawa criminologists are going to court to protect the confidentiality of research records they obtained in 2007. Professors Colette Parent and Chris […]

Learning outcomes are frequently dismissed as a nuisance to be dutifully completed & swiftly put aside, but Frank Furedi believes their prescriptive nature & underlying utilitarian ethos make them an altogether more corrosive influence on higher education. “Professor Furedi, how […]

Controversy continues to dog a private school for international students that partnered with the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg as a “pathway” to future university studies. The International College Manitoba (ICM) has offered English as a second language and university […]

Kent Weaver, manager of systems operations for information technology services at the University of Toronto Library, is the 2012 recipient of CAUT’s Academic Librarians’ Distinguished Service Award. Kent Weaver, a University of Tor­onto librarian whose lengthy and prestigious career included […]

The threat of a strike hangs over St. Francis Xavier University. Last-ditch efforts at conciliation talks will take place Jan. 23 and 24 between the St. Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers (StFXAUT) and university admin­istrators before possible strike action […]

Sur cette photo d'archives du 25 novembre 2011, Jon Thompson prend la parole, à titre de conférencier invité, devant les délégués à l'assemblée du Conseil de l'ACPPU. Jon Thompson a été réélu à la présidence de la Fondation Harry-Crowe pour […]

Rien à faire. La controverse entourant depuis quelques années un établissement d’enseignement privé ayant conclu un partenariat avec l’Université du Manitoba à Winnipeg pour accueillir des étudiants internationaux et être leur « porte d’entrée » à cette université, ne s’éteint pas. Depuis […]

Ron Srigley’s jeremiad (Bulletin, December 2012) obscures the fact that the humanities are very much alive and flourishing in Canadian uni­versities. They certainly face challenges, as they should — complacency would threaten otherwise. But departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, […]

In this Nov. 25, 2011 file photo, guest speaker Jon Thompson addresses delegates at CAUT’s council meeting. Jon Thompson was reelected to a second one-year term as president of the Harry Crowe Foundation at the 2012 annual general meeting in […]

Andrew Delbanco. Princeton, NJ & Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2012; 240 pp; ISBN: 978-0-69113-073-6, cloth $24.95 USD. Reviewed by William Bruneau Andrew Delbanco is a biographer of Herman Melville, a well-reputed historian of American ideas, a successful essayist, and […]

A memoir of extremes Kamal Al-Solaylee. Toronto, ON: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 2012; 205 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55468-886-9, cloth $27.99 CAD. In the 1960s, Kamal Al-Solaylee’s father was one of the wealthiest property owners in Aden, in the south of Yemen, […]