Bulletin Archive

Lakehead University administration announced April 24 that the school would shut down for four days in December, citing fiscal challenges. All non-essential employees will be prohibited from going into the university and “will not be paid,” Lakehead said in a […]

Congratulations and thanks to Jon Thompson for his review of Save the World on Your Own Time (Bulletin, March 2009). His Bookshelf column accurately and precisely describes Stanley Fish’s argument and the dangers it represents. Thompson’s piece serves as a […]

I appreciate the strong editorial in the CAUT Bulletin (“Universities Are Betraying Their Central Mission,” March 2009) defending free speech on campus at a time when it is under serious assault. This is precisely what CAUT should be doing under […]

<img alt="Excluded Foreign Nationals — George Galloway, the British MP recently barred from Canada. Oxford University professor Tariq Ramadan (pictured top inset) & University of Johannesburg political analyst Adam Habib (bottom inset) barred from the US. [Photos: David Hunt/Jan van […]

Not satisfied with eliminating the Court Challenges Program, cancelling child care agreements with the provinces, and cutting the budget and programming of Status of Women Canada, the Harper government’s new budget eliminates the right of women in the federal public […]

I want to applaud both the president and executive director of CAUT for their courageous editorial, “Universities Are Betraying Their Central Mission,” (Bulletin, March 2009) in connection with the banning of a poster during Israel Apartheid Week. I am concerned […]

In your Editorial in the March edition of the Bulletin, you argue free speech and freedom of expression were violated when two universities banned a poster showing an Israeli helicopter bombing a Palestinian child holding a teddy bear. You and […]

Your statement in the editorial “Univer­sities Are Betraying Their Central Mission” (Bulletin, March 2009) that “supporters of Israeli government policy feel that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism” is both an insult to the intelligence of your readership, who understand that […]

Re: “Universities Are Betraying Their Central Mission,” (CAUT Bulletin, March 2009). I am encouraged by the excellent editorial on academic freedom by Penni Stewart and James Turk, and grateful they have spoken out in support of basic principles, especially concerning […]

Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have voted unanimously to make their scholarly articles available to the public for free on the internet. “The vote is a signal to the world that we speak in a unified voice; that […]

The Bologna Process, under which European governments are attempting to harmonize their college and university systems, is beginning to attract more attention in Canada. Much of the initial reaction has been from those involved in graduate student admissions who have […]

Newfoundland & Labrador Students are applauding New­foundland and Labrador’s 2009 budget for eliminating interest on the provincial portion of student loans and maintaining the freeze on tuition fees. The budget also increased funding for needs-based grants, a program the Canadian […]