Bulletin Archive

Michael Goodyear [file photo] The long ordeal of Michael Goodyear, a professor of medicine at Dalhousie University, has come to an end. In September, he reached a settlement agreement that would allow his full reinstatement. The terms of the settlement […]

Speaking in 1995, distinguished legal scholar and past president of York University, Harry Arthurs argued that “Academic freedom is a central, perhaps the central value, of university life.” The question is what this value means in the daily practice of […]

On June 11, 2009, B’nai Brith Canada published a full page ad in the National Post condemning York University for, among other things, hosting a confe­­rence titled “Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace.” The ad launched was […]

Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us Daniel Koretz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008; 368 pp; ISBN: 978-0-674-02805-0, hardcover $29.95 us. At first glance, Canadian readers might be tempted to discount the relevance of this book because of […]

Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money James Engell & Anthony Dangerfield. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2005; 304 pp; ISBN: 0-8139-2331-X, hardcover $28 us. English literature professors should be sternly enjoined to concentrate on the areas of […]

‘Obscene’ Compensation Deal for Outgoing President The faculty association at the University of Calgary wants the administration to scale back what it calls an “obscene” supplementary pension deal for outgoing university president Harvey Weingarten. The recommendation is one of several […]

Unionized librarians and archi­vists at the University of Western Ontario have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if contract talks do not result in a new collective bargaining agreement. The University of Western Onta­rio Faculty Association announced Sept. 28 that […]

Academic staff at York Univer­sity cast their vote on a new contract last month — the product of an “intensive and demanding bargaining process,” according to faculty association president Arthur Hilliker — with an 80 per cent margin of approval. […]

New at CAUT — Chantal Sundaram & Robert Johnson. CAUT recently hired Chantal Sundaram and Robert Johnson to fill important posts within the organization. Chantal joins CAUT as an assistant executive director with responsibility for assisting member associations with collective […]

CAFA award winners Reginald Bibby, Sara Dorow & Candace Nykiforuk. Reginald Bibby, a bestselling author and holder of the Board of Governors Research Chair in Sociology at the Univer­sity of Lethbridge, has been named the Con­federation of Alberta Faculty Asso­ciations’ […]

Academic staff at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax have ratified a new contract with the board of governors that provides an average 9.3 per cent increase in salary and benefits over the next three years. The deal that was reached […]

Public spending on Canadian universities and university colleges posted a modest rebound in 2007–2008 after years of declining funding, new figures show. But compared to previous dec­ades, government operating grants now account for less than 58% of total university operating […]