Bulletin Archive

Newly elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper & his Tory minority government face a possible $10 billion deficit for 2009–2010, compounding the provinces’ financial difficulties during an economic downturn. Many forecast this will mean spending cuts to programs such as health […]

Postdoctoral associates at the University of Western Ontario will soon be bargaining a collective agreement as the latest in a growing number of postdocs that are unionizing at universities across North America. Western’s administration oppos­ed the union move, arguing that […]

The 18-day strike at the University of Windsor ended Oct. 4 as the board of governors and faculty union voted to ratify a new col­lective agreement. The agreement addresses many of the union’s concerns, including a 20% increase over three […]

The university has announced that new students will not be admitted to IT programs for the 2008-2009 academic year. [Photo: Mount Saint Vincent University] The academic staff union at Mount Saint Vincent University has filed a grievance challenging MSVU’s decision […]

A Glowing Dream: A Memoir Roland Penner. Winnipeg, MB: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc, 2007; 306 pp; ISBN: 978-1897-289198, paper $28.95 ca. By Donald C. Savage Roland Penner was elected president of CAUT in 1979. He has now written a […]

A. Leigh DeNeef & Craufurd D. Goodwin, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006; third edition, 416 pp; ISBN: 978-0-8223-3883-3, cloth $89.95 us; ISBN: 978-0-8223-3874-1, paper $24.95 us. This new, revised, and expanded edition of the popular Academic’s Handbook is […]

A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing Paul J. Silvia. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2007; 149 pp; ISBN: 987-1-59147-743-3, paper $14.95 us. All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, […]

Interdisciplinary and Community-Based Research in a World on the Edge John Sutton Lutz & Barbara Neis, eds. Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008; 338 pp; ISBN: 978-0-7735-3373-8, cloth $85 ca; ISBN: 978-0-7735-3393-6, paper $32.95 ca. Whether the […]

Le président de l’APUO, Atef Fahim, se réjouit que la protection des documents ait été confirmée. Les documents et les dossiers du personnel universitaire ne se trouvent pas, en règle générale, sous la garde de l’université : telle est la […]

Si les membres de l’ACPPU doivent surmonter divers obstacles au quotidien, il est rare qu’ils aient à faire face à la violence et à l’intimidation. Ce n’est toutefois pas toujours le cas ailleurs dans le monde. Dans un climat de […]

Le premier ministre réélu Stephen Harper et son gouvernement conservateur minoritaire font face à un déficit possible de 10 milliards de dollars, qui ne peut qu’aggraver les difficultés financières des provinces en période de ralentissement économique. Beaucoup prédisent que cela […]

Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s commentary, “Marking Schemes are an Abo­mination,” (Bulletin, September 2008) repeats the old saw that “Einstein never did very well at school, anyway.” If one cares to type ‘Einstein failed school’ into Google, one can find several careful accounts […]