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Lisa Wood at the University of Northern British Columbia writes: I just wanted to say thanks for running the stats and article in the February Bulletin to bring more attention to women in science.

Martin Daly at McMASTER University writes: I notice two ironies in your February Bulletin cover story about the difficulties that women in science continue to face and the systemic obscuring and appropriation of their accomplishments. The first is that the […]

Marc Spooner & James McNinch (eds). University of Regina Press, 2018; 319 pp; ISBN: 978-0-88977-536-7. By Robin Whitaker Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education originated in “Public Engagement and the Politics of Evidence in an Age of Neoliberalism and Audit Culture,” […]

Martin Parker. Pluto Press 2019; 198 pp; ISBN: 978-0-74539-916-4. By Len Findlay The author of this self-styled “polemic” is an eminent figure in management studies in the United Kingdom. His is very much an insider’s challenge to what he takes […]

Wayne Au. Haymarket Books, 018; 305 pp; ISBN: 978-1-60846-905-5. By Howard A. Doughty Wayne Au is still a young man, but he is already a man of accomplishment. Self-consciously working-class, bi-racial and multicultural (he loves hip-hop music and movies), he is an […]

By Marc Spooner Every so often, one or another government branch or agency claims there is an educational crisis in Canadian post-secondary institutions (but never addresses perennial underfunding). This latest exercise in bureaucratic regime-building comes from Ontario and follows the […]

Peter MacKinnon. University of Toronto Press, 2018; 149 pp; ISBN: 978-1-48752-282-7. By Charles Reeve Peter MacKinnon fears for the university — the agora where, through collaboration and contestation, we learn, discover and advance knowledge. He worries that debate has deteriorated […]

Sandra D. Styres. University of Toronto Press, 2017; 234 pp; ISBN: 978-1-48752-163-9. by Michael Dudley In 1613, the Hodenosaunee (Iroquois) and Dutch settlers in upstate New York established the Guswhenta or Two Row treaty, named for the two beaded rows […]