Archives du Bulletin

Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education David F. Noble. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002; 116 pp; paper $19.95 CA. David Noble’s book describes the commodification and commercialization of higher education through online instruction. More precisely, it denounces the […]

CAUT Council has established a new foundation to carry out education and research on the role of post-secondary teaching and research in contemporary society. Named the Harry Crowe Foundation, after the person whose academic freedom case gave rise to the […]

CAUT executive director James Turk has met with federal foreign affairs officials to express concern over the treatment of Canadian citizens travelling to or through the United States. "Various U.S. laws, regulations and policies - mostly in the aftermath of […]

CAUT and the Canadian Federation of Students are launching a national campaign this month to highlight the impact of skyrocketing tuition fees on access to post-secondary education in Canada. The two groups are organizing a national forum on access to […]

Universities across the United States say they are facing increasing government pressure not to publish some research because of claims it might be used by terrorists. University officials say the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Defense, in […]

Now that the Romanow Report has underscored the resolve of most Canadians to keep our public health care system public, this might be the moment to do the same for that other venerable Canadian institution, our public universities. Two months […]

Delegates to CAUT's November Council set a new course for the association with a decision making occupational health and safety a priority. Starting in the next budget year, CAUT will add an occupational health and safety officer to its professional […]

Anthony Arnove, ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2002; 264 pp; hardcover $40 US., paper $16 US. In this critically acclaimed collection, leading voices against the sanctions document the human, environmental, and social toll of the U.S. and UK-led war […]

Richard Fossey & Mark Bateman, eds. New York: Teachers College Press, 1998; 216 pp; hardcover $38 US. Higher education is fast becoming indispensable to an individual's economic self-sufficiency. Unfortunately, the cost of higher education is going up. In recent years, […]

The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Clark Kerr. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001; 573 pp; hardcover $35 US. Clark Kerr was, and is, a tremendously active participant in […]

Following a Dec. 16, 2002 arbitration board ruling, University of Calgary academic staff members will be forced to accept a 3.5% and a 3.75% base salary increase respectively for each year of a new two-year contract. The salary increase, which […]

notice there is no deadline explicitly set on the Homework! in the November 2002 issue of the Bulletin in which it was asked which was the better deal depending on whether a discount was computed before or after taxes were […]