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Academic staff unions and associations from around the globe have unveiled an ambitious project designed to counter the increasing commercialization and globalization of higher education. Meeting in Dakar, Senegal last month, the higher education affiliates of Education International reaffirmed their […]

Mythe : La majorité des universitaires contractuels sont des femmes. Réalité : Les femmes et les hommes occupent presque le même nombre de postes de contractuels dans les universités. Selon une enquête réalisée de 1990 à 1992 auprès de 20 […]

Myth: Most contract academics are women. Fact: Men & women hold almost the same number of contract academic postions. According to a survey conducted from 1990 to 1992 of 20 universities across Canada, men and women are almost equally represented […]

More focus on the importance of post-secondary education to Canadian society, a need for increased, stable and predictable funding to support post-secondary education, and improved student aid were the key recommendations coming out of a recent policy forum sponsored last […]

CAUT brought together grievance officers from faculty associations across Canada for the association's first annual senior grievance officers workshop Nov. 7-9 in Ottawa. In his opening remarks, CAUT president Victor Catano underscored the importance of the work undertaken by grievance […]

Peter Eglin & Stephen Hester, eds. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003; 167 pp; paper $29.95 CA. The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis adopts an ethnomethodological viewpoint to analyze how the murder of women by a […]

Dawn Williams. Toronto: D.P. Williams & Associates, 2002; 421 pp; hardcover $59.99 CA., paper $39.99 CA. Canada's Blacks are trailblazers and innovators. But just who are they? If you've ever wondered who the leading Black citizens are in our society […]

Elizabeth McIninch, ed. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Carol-Canada Publications Ltd., 2003; 224 pp; hardcover $59.95 CA. Canada: The New Millennium Series highlights our nation's accomplishments through highly-informative original articles by leading Canadians. Among them are historian Desmond Morton's overview on Canadian […]

CAUT has appointed a committee of inquiry to examine the issue of academic freedom for university administrators. The committee is being chaired by Bill Bruneau, professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and a member of CAUT's Academic Freedom […]

Canada is experiencing a flight of newly-minted PhDs, a pilot study undertaken by Statistics Canada has found. A large number of doctoral graduates from the University of Toronto and the Université de Montréal are leaving the country for employment or […]

In his critique of the current free-market model for funding pharmaceutical research "Bad Rx - Big Pharma & Medical Research" (commentary, Bulletin, Oct. 2003), ethics professor Arthur Schafer argues that, "if biomedical researchers and their universities are to retain public […]

Peter Anderson writes (bookshelf, Bulletin, Oct. 2003) "university departments such as chemistry and physics whose major role in the undergraduate curriculum for many years has been the provision of introductory service courses to biology, biochemistry and engineering students." Oh dear! […]