Bulletin Archive

Over the last five years a disturbing pattern has emerged at the annual congress of the humanities and social sciences regarding the lack of affordable and accessible on-site child care. Indeed, the lack of services for child care at the […]

With Prince Edward Island’s projected deficit nearing $60 million this year, the provincial Liberal government’s March 27 budget announcement amounted to an about-face on last year’s promise of restoring the province to fiscal balance by 2015. Finance Minister Wes Sheridan […]

Access to the results of academic scholarship and research is in a crisis today due in part to the proliferation of expensive, for-profit, scholarly journals. Most library budgets can no longer maintain extensive collections of periodicals, let alone acquire new […]

Carolina Millán-Ronchetti & Theresa Tedesco A managing editor and a business correspondent have won CAUT’s 12th annual Excellence in Education Journalism awards. Theresa Tedesco, chief business correspondent at the National Post, won in the professional reporting category for a March […]

Une commission indépendante prône des changements à la structure de gouvernance du Collège militaire royal du Canada (CMRC) afin de protéger l’intégrité académique de l’établissement. Le rapport de la commission rendu public le 9 avril signale que le CMRC est une […]

A petition calling on Western University to end its Access Copyright agreement has been signed by 70 library workers at the university, ahead of the renewal deadline. The library workers launched the petition last month, which calls on Western to […]

I write to correct a possible misperception created by the April Bulletin article “‘Smoke & mirrors’ obscure Nova Scotia’s budget.” The notion that the Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents agreed to “a three per cent cut this year … […]

Landsberg, Germany: Olzog-Aktuell, 2012; 228 pp; ISBN: 978-3-78928-216-4, cloth €29.90. The practical reality for many German academics and researchers is that publishing in English is becoming progressively more vital for their careers. However, some German linguists are railing against this […]

Successful strategies by award-winning teachers Robin K. Morgan & Kimberly T. Olivares, eds. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012; 148 pp; ISBN: 978-0-25300-612-7, paper $22 usd, eBook $18.99 USD. How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does […]

Communicating with traditional and social media for scholars, researchers, and academic leaders William Tyson. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2010; 256 pp; ISBN: 978-1-57922-333-5, paper $19.95 usd; ISBN: 978-1-57922-546-9, eBook $15.99 usd; ISBN: 978-1-57922-545-2, Lib eBook $45 USD. How do you […]

A critical reader in Canadian mad studies Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies & Geoffrey Reaume, eds. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2013; 380 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55130-534-9, paper $49.95 CAD. In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: “An important new movement […]

How Canada’s student loan system is failing young people and the country Thomas Pawlick. Bradenton, FL: BookLocker.com, 2012; 246 pp; ISBN: 978-1-62141-779-8, paper $15.95 usd, eBook $4.99 USD. Thomas Pawlick exposes the exploitation and entrapment in Canada’s student loan system: […]