Bulletin Archive

High price to pay for budget shortfall – Staff members at Malaspina University-College have been told significant layoffs are inevitable. [Photo: Communications and Public Relations/Malaspina University-College] Spring’s arrival is warming temperatures, but four recent provincial budgets have left many students, […]

Long-expected amendments to the Copyright Act aimed at bolstering the rights of the entertainment industry have been dropped from the federal government’s legislative agenda. The development is a major victory for universities and colleges and the broader public. If enacted, […]

AUCC has lifted the First Nations University of Canada's probationary status, but CAUT council next month is to consider a motion censuring the University, seen here in a 2003 view. [Photo: Courtesy of Terry Chevalier / The Leader Post] The […]

Per course salaries for part-time faculty and librarians at Wilfrid Laurier University will increase over the course of a three-year collective agreement ratified this month. The deal reached on April 4 ended a two-week strike by more than 300 part-timers […]

Guelph faculty association members ratified their first collective agreement April 1, bringing to an end more than a year of negotiation. The tentative agreement reached March 13 with the university administration was brokered with the assistance of a mediator hours […]

Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America David Levine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006; 256 pp; ISBN: 978-0-226-47553-0, cloth $39 US; ISBN: 978-0-226-47554-7, paper $19 US. Former University of Chicago dean David Levine embodies a […]

L'oncologue Cathy Popadiuk a été harcelée par ses supérieurs et marginalisée au sein de son département, et a vu sa liberté académique menacée, a conclu un comité d'enquête indépendant. [Photo : Réimprimée avec permission du Telegram] La docteure Cathy Popadiuk, […]

Wendy Bourque and Saba Mattar, shortly after receiving the good news from the labour board in February. A campaign to unionize part-time faculty and librarians at the University of New Brunswick came to a successful conclusion last month when the […]

Despite titling his February budget speech “Responsible Leadership,” Finance Minister Jim Flaherty didn’t offer a coherent vision for post-secondary education and research. In a carefully hedged document geared at garnering enough opposition support to see the bill through Parliament, the […]

How well have you been concentrating or relaxing lately? Feeling more tired, anxious, irritable, depressed even? How about having difficulty sleeping? If you experience more than a few of these symptoms on a regular basis, chances are you have joined […]

It is with disbelief and certainly no admiration that I read what measures Michael Somerton took to continue teaching, “With Help after Stroke, I Taught as Well as Ever” (Bulletin, February 2008). This gentle-looking 65-year-old lecturer in sociology, at 64, […]

À l’issue d’une bataille juridique de six ans, quatre professeurs de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique (UBC) sont sortis victorieux d’une poursuite qui menaçait leur liberté académique. En janvier dernier, la Cour suprême de la Colombie-Britannique a rejeté une action civile […]