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Patricia Senn Breivik & E. Gordon Gee. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2006; 340 pp; ISBN: 978-0-275-98194-5, hardcover $49.95 us. Far too often, presidents, academic vice presidents and other campus leaders fail to take advantage of the contributions their campus libraries […]

Phil Gasper, ed. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005; 224 pp; ISBN: 1-931859-25-6, paper $12 us. Here, at last, is an authoritative introduction to history’s most important political document, with the full text of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick […]

Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University Michael M’Gonigle & Justine Starke. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2006; 288 pp; ISBN: 0-865715-57-2, paper $23.95 ca. M'gonigle and Starke’s book reads well. It is heavily but intriguingly illustrated, […]

MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion Donna C. Stanton, Michael Bérubé, Leonard Cassuto, Morris Eaves, John Guillory, Donald E. Hall & Sean Latham. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006; 100 pp; Available free for download at […]

Sarah Shorten Award winners Patricia Baker (second from left) & Janice Dodd (centre) receive their awards from CAUT president Greg Allain & CAUT Women's Committee chair Wendy Robbins during a ceremony in Ottawa on Nov. 25. Janice Dodd and Patricia […]

The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association and the university came to terms on a tentative agreement Dec. 22, after five days of conciliation. About 1,400 full-time and contract academic staff will vote on whether to ratify the new four-year […]

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine Faculty Association ratified a first collective agreement with the school last month following almost a year of negotiations on a contract. The two-year deal, which has also been approved by the school’s board, offers […]

Three-year agreement with university establishes union-controlled benefit plan The academic staff union at Saint Mary’s University will vote this month on a tentative agreement reached Dec. 17 with the assistance of mediator Kevin Burkett.     Under the three-year agreement, the university will […]

By Eleanor Lingham A week before I started my post-doc, I met an old friend whom I hadn’t seen since my undergraduate days. He had just dropped out of a postdoc — after a year — and was now getting […]

Lord Bhikhu Parekh ("Fighting the War on Dogma" Bulletin, November 2006) makes the familiar claim that universities should not be dancing singularly to the jingles and the rhythms of the marketplace. Who can disagree with his argument that they should […]

Dalhousie University’s affiliated teaching hospital deliberately used false allegations to destroy her career, cardiology professor Gabrielle Horne alleged in a lawsuit filed late last month. Her research on the causes of heart failure, backed by a number of major grants, […]

Canadians would prefer the federal Conservative government scrap its plans to cut the GST and use the money to lower tuition fees instead, according to a recent public opinion poll commissioned by CAUT and the Canadian Federation of Students. Overall, […]