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One mathematician’s boycott of megapublisher Elsevier has fueled enough momentum to end a U.S. bill aimed at banning open access policies. Cambridge professor Timothy Gowers launched his personal boycott of the scientific publisher in a blog post Jan. 21, protesting […]

Disability, Space, Meaning Tanya Titchkosky. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2011; 192 pp; ISBN: 978-1-44264-026-9, cloth $55 CAD. Reviewed by Nancy Hansen Tanya Titchkosky’s fine new book is stimulating and worthy of note. In The Question of Access she […]

A History of Wilfrid Laurier University Andrew M. Thomson. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011; 183 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55458-432-1, paper $29.95 CAD. On October 30, 1911, a jubilant crowd of nearly 1,500 people gathered in their Sunday finest on […]

Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism Jessica Yee, ed. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2011; 176 pp; ISBN: 978-1-92688-849-1, paper $15 CAD. When feminism itself becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say […]

Instruments of Social Change Erika Shaker, ed. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2011; 161 pp; ISSN: 0840-7339, paper $15 CAD. If schools are truly to be instruments of social change, how we can ensure that the change we […]

L'Université York a récemment conclu avec le Centre pour l'innovation dans la gouvernance internationale, dirigé par Jim Balsillie, une entente de plusieurs millions de dollars qui donne à ce groupe de réflexion de Waterloo voix au chapitre des domaines et […]

En juin dernier, le Centre de recherche sur la mondialisation (CRM) a effectué une démarche auprès de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Il s’agissait de réserver une salle pour la tenue d’une conférence publique en date du 8 septembre […]

Environ la moitié des régimes de retraite offerts au personnel des établissements d’enseignement postsecondaire au Canada entre dans la catégorie des régimes de retraite à prestations déterminées. Le revenu de retraite y est calculé en fonction du salaire et des […]

On hearing of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada’s new statement on academic freedom released this past October, Jon Thompson, the author of No Debate: The Israel Lobby and Free Speech at Canadian Universities, remarked: “There is a […]

New Access Copyright agreements have been signed at Western Ontario (above) & Toronto (inset). (Balcer/Nat) The universities of Western Ontario and Toronto have signed a deal with Access. Copyright that allows for surveillance of faculty correspondence, unjustified restriction to copyrighted […]

After reading “Indigenous Know­ledge Can Enrich Our Campuses” (President’s Column, Bulletin, January 2012) my emotions shifted from incomprehension and disbelief to utter embarrassment. We learn from Kwakiutl law professor Maxine Matilpi and Wayne Peters that “Indigenous knowledge is embedded within […]

Recognizing indigenous knowledge in the academy is meant to start another dialogue that can lead to new insights and understandings. It is not meant to replace knowledge and methodologies which come to us through a western path of reason, logic […]