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Le Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface n’est plus. Dorénavant, l’établissement porte officiel­lement le nom d’Université de Saint-Boniface (USB). Considéré comme la première école pour garçons en son genre dans l’Ouest canadien au début des années 1800, après avoir porté le nom […]

It’s a done deal. A strike by librarians and archivists at the University of Western Ontario ended Sept. 23 with an 84 per cent vote in favour of a new four-year agreement. The library personnel represented by the UWO Faculty […]

Un boursier postdoctoral demande à la Cour fédérale du Canada de revoir la procédure d’appel du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH). Johannes Wheeldon, chercheur postdoctoral à la Washington State University, sollicite le contrôle judi­ci­aire des concours de bourses […]

(Photo: PICSFIVE/shutterstock.com) Post-secondary education has emerged as an important issue in provincial elections across the country this fall. In Manitoba, the incumbent New Democratic Party kicked off its campaign with a promise to limit tuition fee increases to no more […]

Les coupes claires dans le financement et le niveau élevé des droits de scolarité faussent les règles d’admission des universités américaines. Les responsables des admissions reconnaissent l’émergence d’un « choc des valeurs » dans les campus américains face à la […]

Manitoba’s only French-language post-secondary institution, the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, is no more. The school is now officially the Université de Saint-Boniface, or USB. Billed as the first of its kind in Western Canada in the early 1800s as a […]

Les modifications à la loi canadienne sur le droit d’auteur déposées le mois dernier au Parlement auront à la fois des effets avantageux et néfastes sur le travail des professionnels de l’éducation. « Nous nous réjouissons que la plus récente […]

Amendments to Canadian copyright law tabled last month in Parliament will both benefit and hinder the work of educators. “We’re pleased the government’s latest incarnation of copyright reform, Bill C-11, reflects the priorities of Canada’s academic and research community to […]

A postdoctoral research fellow is asking the Federal Court of Canada to review the appeals policy of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Johannes Wheeldon, a post doc at Washington State University, is seeking judicial review of SSHRC’s postdoctoral […]

Dalhousie University has announced it will not be renewing its contract with internet-based plagiarism detection service Turnitin.com. The university’s chief information officer cited privacy concerns over the protection of student information, which can be requested from parent company iParadigms by […]

In a drawn-out battle over manda­tory retirement, the University of Prince Edward Island has been ordered to compensate three professors after they were forced into retirement at age 65. The PEI Human Rights Commis­sion ruled in September that faculty members […]

Reflections of a University President William G. Bowen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011; 168 pp; ISBN: 978-0-69114-962-2, cloth $24.95 USD. Reviewed by Emöke Szathmáry One might expect Lessons Learned to be a long autobiographical tome given the accomplishments of […]