Archives du Bulletin

Robert D. Steadward, Garry D. Wheeler & E. Jane Watkinson, eds. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press & Steadward Centre, 2003; 704 pp; hardcover $89.95 CA. Persons with disability have come a long way - from concerns with mere survival to […]

Growth & Governance of Canadian Universities: An Insider's View Howard C. Clark. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003; 240 pp; hardcover $85 ca., paper $24.95 CA., (paper edition available Jan. 2004). New Zealander Howard Clark arrived in Canada in […]

Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance Alberto Amaral, Glen A. Jones and Bert Karseth, eds. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002; 298 pp; hardcover $115 US. This book is reminiscent of a Three Stooges film, Nertsery Rhymes […]

A Nova Scotia labour relations tribunal has granted Acadia University Faculty Association's application to combine its full-time and part-time academic staff bargaining units. In issuing its decision, the tribunal said it was satisfied that there was "sufficient community of interest […]

Saint Mary's University Faculty Union ratified a collective agreement Sept. 12, which gives bargaining unit members substantial salary improvements. According to the union's calculations, total compensation will amount to an average increase of just more than 16 per cent over […]

Talks aimed at further liberalizing the global trading system collapsed in Cancun, Mexico last month after the world's richest nations refused to address the demands of developing countries worldwide on the thorny issue of agricultural subsidies. Canadian trade minister Pierre […]

"Evidence-based medicine" has become the mantra of the medical profession. When patients "present" to their physicians, the physicians are supposed to set aside their intuitions and prejudices and, instead, treat the patients' problems according to the best and most rigorous […]

Claude Corbo, rédacteur. Montréal : Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2002; 440 p.; 34,95 $ CAN (cartonné). Peu de rapports gouvernementaux ont provoqué autant de discussions et de controverses que le Rapport Parent. Ce dernier ne visait pas moins […]

University of British Columbia graduate student Cynthia Maughan has filed an $18million lawsuit in B.C.'s Supreme Court against the university and four faculty members, alleging discrimination against her based on her Christian beliefs. "The unfounded allegations of discrimination in this […]

"Current tuition levels in Canada would have prevented many of you from getting the post-secondary education you did," CAUT executive director James Turk told members of the federal government's caucus committee on post-secondary education at last month's Liberal summer caucus […]

Victor Catano writes (Bulletin, June 2003) that "privatization threatens the quality of education." He's right - it threatens to improve it. Private institutions will compete for students, faculty and staff with subsidized public institutions. Students at successful private institutions will […]

I wish to register my protest against CAUT's support for the AAUP plan to censure the University of South Florida in the case of Sami Al-Arian (Bulletin, June 2003). This is a singularly unwise course of action. It has so […]