Bulletin Archive

Canada’s newest clinical faculty association has won a resounding 83 per cent endorsement to represent academic clinicians in negotiating a memorandum of agreement with the University of Manitoba and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. Long without any effective protection of […]

Women, Feminism and the Liberal Arts Susan Brown, Jeanne Perreault, Jo-Ann Wallace & Heather Zwicker, eds. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2011; 472 pp; ISBN: 978-0-88864-550-0, paper $39.95 CAD. Reviewed by Shannon Dea I recently took part in my […]

The Challenging Role of the Canadian University President Ross H. Paul. Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011; 352 pp; ISBN: 978-0-77353-887-0, cloth $49.95 CAD. Reviewed by Michael Stevenson This book deals with important questions of conflict and […]

Les universités de Western Ontario et de Toronto (encadré) ont signé de nouvelles ententes avec Access Copyright. (Balcer/Nat) L'Université de Western Ontario et l’Université de Toronto ont chacune signé avec Access Copyright une entente qui autorise une surveillance de la […]

Informé de la diffusion, en octobre dernier, de la nouvelle déclaration sur la liberté académique de l’Association des universités et collèges du Canada, Jon Thompson, auteur du livre No De­bate: The Israel Lobby and Free Speech at Canadian Universities, a […]

Le gouvernement britannique a mis en veilleuse son projet controversé de réforme du secteur universitaire - mais les universités privées pourraient néanmoins se faufiler. (Monika Pa / Shutterstock.com) Le gouvernement du Royaume-Uni a renoncé à adopter une nouvelle loi controversée […]

As CAUT president I have the pleasure of attending various conferences, workshops and fora designed to explore issues important to post-secondary education and the academics who give it life. This past November, I joined about 100 aboriginal post-secondary edu­cators and […]

Nserc’s Discovery Grant Program has constituted the back-bone of academic science research in Canada for decades. Traditionally, research-active faculty members were expected to hold a Discovery Grant. Discovery Grants provide the main component of graduate student support, supplemented by teaching […]

The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters Benjamin Ginsberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011; 264 pp; ISBN: 978-0-19978-244-4, cloth $29.95 USD. Reviewed by Hans Skott-Myhre Benjamin Ginsberg’s book is a well-articulated scholarly polemic against the […]

Legislation introduced by the Saskatchewan Party government would allow private universities. (Johanna Goodyear / SHUTTERSTOCK.com) Saskatchewan is the latest province to extend degree-granting status to public colleges as well as allow the recognition of private universities.       Similar to legislation […]

[Aaron Amat/SHUTTERSTOCK.com] By Rick Gooding, Sandra Hoenle, Peter Little, Catherine Christie, George Davison, Kelly MacFarlane, Ronda Ward & Leslie Jermyn Our post-secondary education system is moving to ever greater reli­ance on student opinion surveys (mislabelled as teaching or course evaluations) to […]

Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces Michelle A. Massé & Katie J. Hogan, eds. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010; 298 pp; ISBN: 978-1-43843-202-1, paper $24.95 USD. Reviewed by Tatjana Takševa The issue of academic service — how much of […]