Bulletin Archive

Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers invited more than 300 stakeholders to a national summit on post-secondary education and skills in Ottawa last month. The summit, called Competing for Tomorrow, was organized by the Council of the Federation of Canada and […]

Frank Furedi’s commentary (“Becoming McUniversities,” Bulletin, February 2006) easily blames the standardization and homogenization of education in our universities on administrators who “compel” academics to adopt the managerial models and practices associated with McDonald’s hamburger chain. “We are increasingly forced,” […]

Michael Manson’s assertion in his letter (“Equity Does Not Exclude Quality,” Bulletin, February 2006) is true enough in a strictly logical sense. But in reality “equity” will have a tendency to diminish quality. Equity considerations bureaucratically handcuff those who attempt […]

Canada’s privacy commissioner has launched a joint investigation with its counterparts in Alberta and British Columbia to determine whether the practice of requiring students taking the Law School Admission Test to provide an imprint of their thumb violates the law. […]

Why do some people find the word “solidarity” so unnerving? Webster’s dictionary defines it as: “The state of being solidly united in support of common interests, rights, etc.” One colleague explained that solidarity made him feel uncomfortable because he values […]

In December of this year, Ontario will become only the second province in Canada (after Quebec) to banish one of the most disturbing practices of universities — the forced removal of productive and capable faculty members. Mounting opposition at the […]

CAUT has created a special working group on aboriginal post-secondary education. The group will advise CAUT about how it can effectively intervene to help ensure Canada’s post-secondary educational system meets the needs of First Nations and other aboriginal students. The […]

John Willinsky. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2005; 272 pp; ISBN: 0-262-23242-1, hardcover $34.95 us. Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past […]

Katharine C. Lyall & Kathleen R. Sell. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2005; 232 pp; ISBN: 0-275-98949-6, paper $44.95 us. A perfect storm of fiscal and political trends is rapidly forcing the privatization of America’s public universities. Unless those who care […]

Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth David Bollier. New York: Routledge, 2003; 260 pp; ISBN: 0-4159-4482-1, paper $19.95 us. David Bollier’s Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of our Common Wealth is an important contribution to an understanding […]

Kerry Pither recently joined the professional staff of CAUT’s research and communications group. A seasoned communications professional, Pither brings more than 15 years of media and public relations experience to the organization. In her new position, she will develop stories […]

Qui assumera la présidence de votre association locale en 2011? Ce pourrait être, si vous planifiez bien votre relève, un membre du corps professoral en début de carrière ou quelqu’un qui n’est même pas en poste en 2006. Ce pourrait […]