Bulletin Archive

As my Trent University colleague David Newhouse put it, last month, the university did itself proud. The occasion was senate approval of a new vision statement for the university. The outcome of a year-long process of discussion and reflection, the […]

Saskatchewan Federation of Labour affiliated unions protest the provincial government’s controversial bills outside the Regina legislature in May 2008. [File Photo] The International Labour Organ­isation has issued a stinging rebuke to the government of Saskatchewan over two pieces of anti-labour […]

Rosa Barker and Robert Ramsay have been named new professional officers at CAUT. Rosa has a PhD in English Literature from Queen’s University and holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in theory, culture and politics […]

In a decision that will have serious implications for academic staff across Canada, the British Colum­bia Court of Appeal has upheld an arbitrator’s decision that he had no jurisdiction to consider whether a policy on student evaluation of teaching adopted […]

Chris Ferns was recognized by his peers across the country April 24 for his contribution in collective bargaining. This April, Chris Ferns, an English professor at Mount Saint Vincent University, was honoured with CAUT’s Donald C. Savage Award for his […]

CAUT turned a corner in April when council voted in favour of a bylaw amendment ensuring that marginalized groups will be represented in its governance structure. “The bylaw change marked a significant day in CAUT history — a day when […]

The Legitimacy of Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The Role of Public Authorities and Institutions Luc Weber & Katia Dolgova-Dreyer, eds. Cedex, France: Council of Europe Publishing; 2008; 158 pp; ISBN: 978-9-28716-237-3, paper $29 us. The Legitimacy of Quality Assurance […]

Rethinking Integration in the University Anthony Stewart. Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2009; 128 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55266-285-4, paper $17.95 ca. Documenting a black professor’s account of his own professional experience, Stewart’s study describes what it feels like to be a […]

CAUT begins censure process against the University of Manitoba & Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Tenured professor Larry Reynolds was dismissed from his post at the University of Manitoba’s faculty of medicine in 2008. The administrations of both the Univer­sity of […]

The scenario that starts Tim Birkhead’s article “I Feel Like a Marked Man” (Bulletin, April 2010) is that he was asked to mark 500 essays in 24 hours. The article then goes on to other unrealistic and exaggerated accounts of […]

If Ismet Ugursal were a regular reader of Times Higher Education, where my article was first published, he would know that the article was written partly tongue in cheek, but with a serious point. It is also clear from his […]

Current dogma states that all aspects of society should be subject to the principles and logic of marketization, and part of this dogma — which is gaining wider currency within higher education — is the belief that quality can be […]