Bulletin Archive

An open letter entitled “Encouraging charitable giving while reducing the deficit: facilitating gifts of private company shares and real estate” was published as a full-page ad in the Winnipeg Free Press on Feb. 10, 2011. The letter was addressed to […]

Teaching graduate students is an important — and typically rewarding — part of our mission as academic researchers. Each of us shares the goal of creating the “stimulating environment for training” that NSERC vice-president Isabelle Blain described in a letter […]

In response to the commentary, “Time to Revisit NSERC Grant Rules” in the March 2011 issue of the CAUT Bulletin, we would like to clarify some of the points raised by Dr. John Murimboh. As is the case in every […]

New Brunswick New Brunswick’s 2011 budget, released March 22 by the newly-elected Conservative government, partially spared post-secondary education from the $220 million austerity measures imposed on government programs to help reduce the provincial deficit. Universities and colleges will see a […]

Eric Barendt. Oxford, UK & Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2010; 331 pp; ISBN: 978-1-84113-694-3, paper $80 US. By Dwight Newman Academic freedom is a value at the heart of the academic enterprise. Some invoke it as a shield in defence […]

How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research Thomas O. McGarity & Wendy E. Wagner. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010; 400 pp; ISBN: 978-0-67404-714-3, paper $24.95 usd. What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in […]

The New Era of Campus Litigation Amy Gajda. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009; 360 pp; ISBN: 978-0-67403-567-6, cloth $35 usd. Once upon a time, virtually no one in the academy thought to sue over campus disputes, and, if they […]

How Institutions Affect Academic Careers Joseph C. Hermanowicz. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009; 344 pp; ISBN: 978-0-22632-761-7, cloth $55 usd. What can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional […]

Inside the Corporate University Gaye Tuchman. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009; 272 pp; ISBN: 978-0-22681-529-9, cloth $25 usd. Based on years of observation at a large state university, Wannabe U tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional […]

Le juge Denny Chin a dit non. « La question consiste à déterminer si le règlement est équitable, adéquat et raisonnable. Je conclus qu’il ne l’est pas. » Voilà comment, dans sa décision rendue le mois dernier, un juge de […]

Les dernières années nous ont ap­pris beaucoup de choses sur les gouvernements minoritaires. D’après les idées reçues, un gouvernement minoritaire doit fonctionner par consensus, et le Parlement veille à ce qu’il ne dépasse pas les bornes dans un domaine ou […]

We are pleased Penni Stewart (President’s Column, Bulletin, March 2011) has brought attention to the importance of research integrity in Canadian universities. We have been investigating this topic for almost two years and have discovered that research fraud and misconduct […]