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Real Science: What it is, and What it Means John Ziman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000; 399 pp; hardcover $39.95 US. Every time I give a course as a biology teacher I come to a point where the class […]

CAUT recently published the report of the committee of inquiry into the case of Dr. Nancy Olivieri, the University of Toronto researcher who has been in an ongoing conflict with the pharmaceutical company Apotex. Although the report is lengthy, the […]

Statistics released this fall show that Canada's richest families are disproportionately benefiting from the federal government's education savings grant program. Households earning more than $80,000 a year are about three times more likely to have registered education savings plans than […]

As a women's studies professor I was delighted to see the "tribute" to my area of research and teaching in your recent Status of Women Supplement (Bulletin, October 2001). Women's Studies is still a relative newcomer to the academy and […]

The government of British Columbia is holding a province-wide consultation with students, administrators, and educators to consider the impact of the six-year-old freeze on tuition fees. "We are committed to hearing what students have to say about the impact of […]

The cartoons you published in the November 2001 Bulletin reach new levels of offensiveness and ignorance. In one cartoon, you liken the terrorist assault on the World Trade Center that caused the incineration of more than 3,600 innocent people with […]

Successful equity organizing depends on a dual structure, one that combines integrated equity initiatives with constituency-based organizing for marginalized groups. At some universities, expanding the struggle for equity to include all groups designated under the Federal Contractors Program (women, people […]

Several months have lapsed since CAUT issued the report on the Halifax hearings held last spring. These hearings addressed the future of university education in Canada. Various issues were raised: tuition fees and student debt, public funding and commercialization, infrastructure, […]

A dispute at Trent University — the result of years of provincial underfunding — has led to a recent dissenting opinion in the Ontario Appeals Court. This dissent should raise alarms throughout the academic community concerning further intrusions by corporations […]

A powerful educational organization with strong links to the American government has published a list of more than 100 academics it claims are "failing America" by criticizing the U.S.-led war on terrorism. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, co-founded […]

An Ontario review board has sharply rebuked the province's College of Physicians and Surgeons for not conducting a disciplinary hearing for a doctor who anonymously issued intimidating letters to colleagues at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. In a decision released […]

CAUT's local hearings initiative began again this fall with a number of additional events scheduled for the new year. The faculty association at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia held the first of a series of local public events on Nov. […]