Bulletin Archive

(Photo : PICSFIVE/shutterstock.com) L'éducation postsecondaire s’impose comme un enjeu de premier plan dans les campagnes électorales provinciales en cours cet automne. Au Manitoba, le Nouveau Parti démocratique sortant a lancé sa campagne en promettant de limiter les hausses des droits […]

Court orders payment in mining company’s lawsuit against authors. (Photo: Éditions Écosociété) A Quebec court has ruled that Barrick Gold Corporation must pay three authors for its conduct in a defamation suit on a book criticizing Canadian mining practices in […]

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 […]

CAUT president Wayne Peters (right) shakes hands with Christian Addai-Poku, president of Ghana’s National Association of Graduate Teachers, after signing a mutual cooperation agreement. The 1,400 delegates attending the 6th World Congress of Education International in July unanimously passed a […]

Andrew Park’s letter (Bulletin, June 2011) is troubling. He laments that neither he nor his colleagues at the University of Winnipeg know what the rules are regarding NSERC’s view of what constitutes highly-qualified personnel (HQP). He is not alone.       […]

We all lose when scholars forfeit copyright, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto. (Alonso Nichols / Tufts University) "Yes, professor. I agree.” That’s all it takes. Then the iniquity sets in — a modest evil, by the world’s standards, but an iniquity nonetheless, […]

Post-secondary education in Canada is in the midst of a crisis — a fundamental transformation that is having disastrous effects on our students, our institutions, our communities and our country. In recent years we have witnessed disturbing economic, social and […]

The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It Darla J. Twale & Barbara M. De Luca. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008; 219 pp; ISBN: 978-0-47019-766-0, cloth $40 USD. Reviewed by Judy Haiven In the Milgram […]