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Dollars, Distance and Online Education: The New Economics of College Teaching and Learning Martin J. Finkelstein, Carol Frances, Frank I. Jewett & Bernhard W. Scholz, eds. Phoenix, Arizona: American Council on Education and Oryx Press, 2000; 373 pp; hardcover $39.95 […]

Why Universities Matter: A Conversation about Values, Means and Directions Tony Coady, ed. St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2000; 254 pp; paper $24.95 AUD. Technocratic neoliberalism is becoming a danger around the world. Corporate efficiency (or […]

The Ontario legislature has passed the Ontario College of Art & Design Act, giving the college the right to grant the degrees of Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Design, in addition to its four-year diploma in art and […]

Products carrying the McMaster University name or logo must meet labour standards set out in a new code of conduct unveiled by the university in July. McMaster's No Sweat policy requires apparel suppliers and licensees to abide by international labour […]

In April 2002 retired professors Ursula Franklin, Phyllis Grosskurth, Blanche van Ginkel and Cicely Watson achieved a landmark settlement with the University of Toronto in their claim for lost wages and retirement income resulting from systemic gender discrimination in pay. […]

Maureen Shaw, past-president of the College Institute Educators' Association of British Columbia, was elected president of the National Union of the Canadian Association of University Teachers at the NUCAUT convention in Vancouver in June. Brian E. Brown (Windsor) was elected […]

The University of California has accepted a $40 million settlement from Andersen Worldwide, SC, one of the defendants in a class action suit launched by investors who lost billions in the high-profile meltdown of Enron Corporation. "We regard this settlement […]

On Aug. 30 the B.C. government quietly posted a discussion paper on a new private training policy framework on its website. Using the language of deregulation and cutting red tape, that are the hallmarks of the B.C. Liberal government, the […]

Disciplining Dissent: The Curbing of Free Expression in Academia and The Media will be the focus of a national conference CAUT is co-hosting Nov. 1-3 at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. Speakers include Globe and Mail columnists Michael Valpy […]

Josef Penninger, un des scientifiques de haut niveau du Canada, quitte le pays parce que l'Université de Toronto et son plus important hôpital affilié, le University Health Network, n'ont pas agi à temps et d'une manière décisive pour démentir les […]

La hausse des frais de scolarité et les compressions publiques compromettent l'accessibilité et la qualité de l'enseignement postsecondaire, ont conclu les participants aux audiences publiques qui ont eu lieu à Calgary le mois dernier. Peggy Churchward, ex-présidente de la Fédération […]

Les consultations du gouvernement fédéral sur le droit d'auteur ont culminé le 11 avril en une séance d'une journée, à Ottawa, sur des dispositions législatives proposées pour modifier la loi sur le droit d'auteur. Le forum, qui a réuni plus […]