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British Columbia’s highest court has dismissed the appeal of former University of B.C. graduate student Cynthia Maughan in her long running $18 million lawsuit against UBC and four faculty members. In 2002 Maughan filed a civil action alleging she had […]

The new Alberta universities — Mount Royal University (top) & Grant MacEwan University Two Alberta colleges officially became universities in September. Mount Royal College in Calgary was granted the right to use the name university by the Government of Alberta […]

From left to right, CAUT assistant executive director Neil Tudiver with the five member CAUT Benefits Trust board of trustees — Anne Stalker of the University of Calgary, Nancy Langton of the University of British Columbia & chair of the […]

The determination and solidarity of librarians and archivists at the University of Western Ontario caused the university to modify its position to avoid a strike that was to begin on Nov. 2. With no further talks scheduled, the parties reached […]

[Photo: 2009 JupiterImages Corporation.] The Canadian Research Integrity Committee has released its long-awaited study on research oversight in Canada. The committee, an association of 17 academic and government bodies, was formed in 2006 in response to concerns over suspect research […]

Toni Samek from the University of Alberta delivers the keynote address at CAUT’s librarians conference in Ottawa Oct. 23. Academic librarians from Canadian universities and colleges gathered in Ottawa last month for CAUT’s biennial conference for the profession. The focus […]

Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars — Amanda H. Goodall — Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009; 208 pp; ISBN: 978-0-691138-00-8, cloth $29.95 US; ISBN: 978-1-4008-3158-6, e-book $29.95 US. Top Scholars Should Head […]

Subventions du Programme d'infrastructure du savoir : Total des subventions promises jusqu'à présent = 1,7 milliard de dollars / Projets non liés à la recherche = 53,6 %. [Photo : 2009 JupiterImages Corporation] Moins de la moitié des fonds que […]

L'Internationale de l’Éducation (IE) et l’ACPPU sont sur le point de publier un rapport sur la situation du personnel académi­que en Israël, en Cisjordanie et à Gaza. L’IE est une fédération mon­diale de syndicats d’enseignants qui défend les droits du […]

Raphaël Fischler argues that the York Uni­versity conference should be seen “as part of a wider effort to deny Israel the right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people.” As evidence he uses a quote included in my […]

Le gouvernement de l’Alberta a conféré au Collège Mount Royal de Calgary et au Collège Grant MacEwan d’Edmonton le statut d’université les 3 et 24 septembre respectivement. Université Mount RoyalLe vice-recteur à l’enseignement, Robin Fisher, a déclaré que la reconnaissance […]

Text of an e-mail sent June 5 to SSHRC president Chad Gaffield describing threat made by the office of Gary Goodyear, minister of State for Science & Technology. Science Minister Gary Goodyear’s office threatened to withhold federal budget funding for […]