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A Turkish court imposed a suspended 15-month jail sentence last month on professor Atilla Yayla for insulting Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, in a case likely to draw European Union criticism. The recent conviction of Turkish political science professor Atilla Yayla […]

In contrast to a corporatized bureaucracy, John Hoben and Elizabeth Yeoman propose a return to the notion of the university as a self-regulating, democratic learning community. In an era of democratic crisis, universities are abandoning their conventional role as independent […]

University endowments in the United States earned an average return of 17.2 per cent for the 2007 fiscal year. The greatest gains were among 63 institutions with endowments over $1 billion, which gained an average of 21.3 per cent. Harvard […]

La condamnation du professeur Yayla par un tribunal turc à 15 mois de prison avec sursis pour avoir insulté Atatürk, le fondateur de la Turquie moderne, suscite des critiques de l'Union européenne. La récente condamnation du professeur de sciences politiques […]

With the new year upon us, I’d like to start by wishing all CAUT members a very happy, healthy and productive New Year! Individually, may some of our key projects come to fruition in 2008. Collectively, let’s hope we continue […]

York University professor David Noble sought information in February 2004 from Simon Fraser University's university/industry liaison office on SFU's spin-off commercial ventures. In a landmark ruling, adjudicator Catherine Boies Parker from the office of British Columbia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner […]

Scholars do not work to a formal job specification. They do not republish the same piece of research 16 times in slightly altered versions to enhance the size of their CV. Nor do they write to schedules set by auditing […]

The "audit-society" rewards those scientists who dance to its tune, says Peter Lawrence. Too busy working? Two left feet? Too bad. It is fun to imagine songwriters being assessed as scientists are today. Bureaucrats would rank their songs by which […]

[Photo: Jane Jenkins] St. Thomas University locked out its full-time and part-time academic staff units on Dec. 27, and postponed the beginning of the winter term. In a letter to Tom McBrearty, the university’s chairman of the board, CAUT president […]

Le harcèlement psychologique au travail est une menace importante et peut avoir des effets dévastateurs en ce qui concerne la santé mentale des travailleuses et travailleurs. Le phénomène du harcèlement psychologique au travail, dont la progression est constatée partout au […]

Le débat sur la réforme du droit d’auteur canadien a pris, en décembre dernier, une ampleur telle que le ministre de l’Industrie Jim Prentice et le gouvernement Harper ont dû carrément faire marche arrière. En effet, les modifications attendues depuis […]

I appreciate the clarity Patrick Finn brings to the discussion of problems and issues associated with information technologies in university classrooms (“Technology in the Classroom is more than Fun and Games,” Bulletin, October 2007). As important as the issues Finn […]