Bulletin Archive

L'ACPPU va adresser au ministre de la Citoyenneté et de l’Immigration une lettre de protestation contre les fins de non-recevoir auxquelles se sont heurtés deux invités à l’assemblée d’avril du Conseil de l’Association lorsqu’ils ont soumis des demandes de visa […]

L'ACPPU rend hommage à Lee Lorch, 96 ans. L'ACPPU a décerné le Prix d’excellence académique de 2012 à Lee Lorch, professeur émérite à l’Université York et lauréat du prix pour le couronnement d’une carrière de la National Association of Mathematicians. […]

Le mois dernier, le conseil d’administration de l’Université NSCAD a suscité une vive réaction au sein du personnel académique et des étudiants de l’établissement d’enseignement des beaux arts créé il y a 125 ans en rendant public un plan de […]

The landscape of higher education in Nova Scotia is shifting as fallout continues from a 2010 report on the province’s university system. Faculty and students have reacted strongly to a plan released last month by NSCAD University’s board of governors […]

Lee Lorch honoured at 96. CAUT’s 2012 Distinguished Academic Award has been presented to Lee Lorch, professor emeritus at York University and holder of a lifetime achievement award from the National Association of Mathematicians. Lorch is the seventh recipient of […]

Along with a projected deficit of almost $75 million for fiscal year 2011–2012, the Prince Edward Island budget presented last month revealed few surprises for post-secondary institutions in the province. The University of Prince Edward Island and Holland College were […]

CAUT has written to the Citizenship and Immigration Minister to protest repeated denials of travel visas for two guests invited to CAUT’s April Council meeting in Ottawa. President Christian Addai-Poku and vice-president Eric Agbe-Carbonu of the National Association of Graduate […]

The Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council & the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, among other agencies, will feel the sting of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s austerity measures, unveiled in the March […]

I read with sinking heart Heinz Klatt’s derogatory comments about indigenous knowledge in his February letter. His comments clearly illustrate what aboriginal professors have struggled to overcome — namely, the lack of understanding, knowledge and acceptance of a different system […]

What’s in a word? In the extraordinary and bizarre 1982 Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom, simply saying a name for the contentious islands was a declaration of allegiance. No one who called it “the Malvinas” supported Britain, […]

What are the prerequisites necessary for universities to effectively fulfill their societal obligations and to preserve the public trust? First and foremost, institutional autonomy and academic freedom must be the foundations of our public post-secondary institutions. The integrity of our […]

George Melnyk & Christine Mason Sutherland, eds. Calgary, AB: Detselig Entreprises Ltd, 2011; 226 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55059-411-9, paper $26.95 CAD. University teaching is a challenge that is met in different ways. Beginning with the daunting task of addressing 400 first-year […]