Bulletin Archive

New Private College Coming Soon to the University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba last year signed a controversial agreement that outsources provision of ESL and intro-level courses for international students. Officials at the University of Manitoba remain tight-lipped over […]

Michael Somerton explains how medical, university and union aid got him back into class. I was able-bodied for 64 years until a year and a half ago. Then in June 2006 the course of radiotherapy I was undergoing for prostate […]

Let's not lose sight of those scientists who pursue important questions with single-minded determination, driven by relentless curiosity, says Vern Paetkau. A theme reverberating through the halls of the modern university is the importance of research that is either interdisciplinary, […]

A six-year battle in which a student’s lawsuit threatened academic freedom has come to a victorious end for four faculty members at the University of British Columbia. In January, the B.C. Supreme Court dismissed a civil action filed in 2002 […]

In my January column, I examined the extent, causes and consequences of workplace bullying. I’ve since received a number of e-mails attesting to the existence, and severity, of bullying on various campuses. Unfortunately, there are very few statistics on its […]

Solidarity rally for striking St. Thomas faculty in Fredericton January 23. Classes resumed at St. Thomas University Feb. 5 after striking professors and the administration agreed to binding arbitration for any remaining issues under dispute. Faculty association president Suzanne Dudziak […]

Close to 100 academics gathered in Winnipeg earlier this month for CAUT’s first conference for Aboriginal scholars. Navigating the Academy was “a remarkable event,” said CAUT president Greg Allain. “I believe it was the largest gathering ever of Aboriginal academics […]

A Turkish court imposed a suspended 15-month jail sentence last month on professor Atilla Yayla for insulting Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, in a case likely to draw European Union criticism. The recent conviction of Turkish political science professor Atilla Yayla […]

In contrast to a corporatized bureaucracy, John Hoben and Elizabeth Yeoman propose a return to the notion of the university as a self-regulating, democratic learning community. In an era of democratic crisis, universities are abandoning their conventional role as independent […]

University endowments in the United States earned an average return of 17.2 per cent for the 2007 fiscal year. The greatest gains were among 63 institutions with endowments over $1 billion, which gained an average of 21.3 per cent. Harvard […]

La condamnation du professeur Yayla par un tribunal turc à 15 mois de prison avec sursis pour avoir insulté Atatürk, le fondateur de la Turquie moderne, suscite des critiques de l'Union européenne. La récente condamnation du professeur de sciences politiques […]

L'ouverture prochaine d'un nouveau collège privé à l'Université du Manitoba L'an dernier, l'Université du Manitoba a conclu une entente controversée par laquelle elle attribue à contrat la prestation des cours d'anglais langue seconde et des cours d'introduction pour les étudiants […]