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If the past has been an era of leadership, sadly I have to say that we have now moved into the era of, to say the least, disappointment… The post-September 11th mindset has sold human rights short in the name […]

Faculty union president Atef Fahim said he’s pleased records & files are protected. Academic staff records and documents are not normally in the custody or control of the university, according to an arbitration decision at the University of Ottawa in […]

The September 2008 issue of the Bulletin depicts as “Reminiscent of McCarthyism” the U.S. National Association of Scholars’ plans to identify university programs peddling ideology mas­querading as knowledge. But it is ironic that the same issue of the Bulletin also […]

There is an incongruous logic to Penni Stewart’s claim that “female students and academic staff still continue to suffer inequities…” and that these inequities are most apparent in “science, engineering and related disciplines” (President’s Column, Bulletin, September 2008). The key […]

I completely agree with Ricardo Duchesne that the growing represen­tation of women in undergraduate studies, now 58.1 per cent of total enrollment, is to be celebrated. And I also agree that we should be concerned about the scholarly achievement of […]

Unlike Martin Cohen in his “Idiotica” rant (Commentary, Bulletin, October 2008), I’ve had good experiences with Wikipedia. I “watch” 88 articles and most are not prone to many errors, even including the one about me. Mistakes are often corrected quickly […]

A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing Paul J. Silvia. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2007; 149 pp; ISBN: 987-1-59147-743-3, paper $14.95 us. All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, […]

Interdisciplinary and Community-Based Research in a World on the Edge John Sutton Lutz & Barbara Neis, eds. Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008; 338 pp; ISBN: 978-0-7735-3373-8, cloth $85 ca; ISBN: 978-0-7735-3393-6, paper $32.95 ca. Whether the […]

Le président de l’APUO, Atef Fahim, se réjouit que la protection des documents ait été confirmée. Les documents et les dossiers du per sonnel universitaire ne se trouvent pas, en règle générale, sous la garde de l’université : telle est […]

Si les membres de l’ACPPU doivent surmonter divers obstacles au quotidien, il est rare qu’ils aient à faire face à la violence et à l’intimidation. Ce n’est toutefois pas toujours le cas ailleurs dans le monde. Dans un climat de […]

Le premier ministre réélu Stephen Harper et son gouvernement conservateur minoritaire font face à un déficit possible de 10 milliards de dollars, qui ne peut qu’aggraver les difficultés financières des provinces en période de ralentissement économique. Beaucoup prédisent que cela […]

Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s commentary, “Marking Schemes are an Abo­mination,” (Bulletin, September 2008) repeats the old saw that “Einstein never did very well at school, anyway.” If one cares to type ‘Einstein failed school’ into Google, one can find several careful accounts […]