Bulletin Archive

Ricardo Duchesne’s letter (“Eurocentric University Defended,” Bulletin, December 2006) is at best puzzling and at worst offensive. I don’t know whether to bemoan the ignorance displayed in this letter or to feel angry at the chauvinism. His thesis, “All the […]

Tying student loan payments to income might seem like a good idea at first glance, but it is really a wolf in sheep’s clothing, according to a new study released by CAUT.     The study, "Income Contingent Loan Repayment Plans: The False […]

E. Richard Atleo. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004; 168 pp; ISBN: 978-0-774-81084-5, hardcover $75 ca; ISBN: 978-0-774-81085-2, paper $27.95 ca. Western philosophy has long held scientific rationalism in a place of honour. Reason, that particularly exalted human quality, […]

Patricia Senn Breivik & E. Gordon Gee. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2006; 340 pp; ISBN: 978-0-275-98194-5, hardcover $49.95 us. Far too often, presidents, academic vice presidents and other campus leaders fail to take advantage of the contributions their campus libraries […]

Phil Gasper, ed. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005; 224 pp; ISBN: 1-931859-25-6, paper $12 us. Here, at last, is an authoritative introduction to history’s most important political document, with the full text of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick […]

Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University Michael M’Gonigle & Justine Starke. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2006; 288 pp; ISBN: 0-865715-57-2, paper $23.95 ca. M'gonigle and Starke’s book reads well. It is heavily but intriguingly illustrated, […]

MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion Donna C. Stanton, Michael Bérubé, Leonard Cassuto, Morris Eaves, John Guillory, Donald E. Hall & Sean Latham. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006; 100 pp; Available free for download at […]

Sarah Shorten Award winners Patricia Baker (second from left) & Janice Dodd (centre) receive their awards from CAUT president Greg Allain & CAUT Women's Committee chair Wendy Robbins during a ceremony in Ottawa on Nov. 25. Janice Dodd and Patricia […]

Lord Bhikhu Parekh ("Fighting the War on Dogma" Bulletin, November 2006) makes the familiar claim that universities should not be dancing singularly to the jingles and the rhythms of the marketplace. Who can disagree with his argument that they should […]

Dalhousie University’s affiliated teaching hospital deliberately used false allegations to destroy her career, cardiology professor Gabrielle Horne alleged in a lawsuit filed late last month. Her research on the causes of heart failure, backed by a number of major grants, […]

Canadians would prefer the federal Conservative government scrap its plans to cut the GST and use the money to lower tuition fees instead, according to a recent public opinion poll commissioned by CAUT and the Canadian Federation of Students. Overall, […]

The threat of embarrassment and inadequacy pervades every nook and cranny of education. From preschool to grad school, students are subjected to assaults on their self-confidence as their limitations of mind and character are repeatedly and publicly exposed. What could […]