Bulletin Archive

CAUT has advised Dalhousie University president Tom Traves that it will consider censure of the university if the administration does not fulfill its responsibility to try to protect two faculty members caught up in drawn-out disciplinary procedures by Dalhousie’s affiliated […]

Dennis Hayes & Robin Wynyard, eds. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002; 232 pp; ISBN: 0-89789-856-7, hardcover $89.95 us. The term “McDonaldization” was coined by George Ritzer in 1993 and is a valuable tool for providing a theoretical and practical […]

Stephen Hammond. Vancouver: Harassment Solutions Inc., 2005; 146 pp; ISBN: 0-9734954-0-5, paper $24.95 ca. Business and human rights expert Stephen Hammond has written a book designed to help those who are in the tricky art of managing people and workplaces […]

Donez Xiques. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2005; 408 pp; ISBN: 1550025791, hardcover $40 ca. Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about one of the most revered writers of twentieth-century Canadian […]

The Canadianization Movement: Emergence, Survival and Success Jeffrey Cormier. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004; 380 pp; ISBN: 0-8020-8815-5, hardcover $65 ca. In 1969, only 55 per cent of the faculty teaching in Canadian universities were Canadians. In sociology and […]

Le gouvernement australien de John Howard a lancé ce que les critiques considèrent comme un assaut total contre les droits syndicaux et l’indépendance universitaire en proposant des réformes du droit du travail. En vertu des Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements […]

Canada’s Human Rights Commission requested last month the appointment of a tribunal to hear the complaints of eight female professors against Industry Canada. The complaints, filed in May 2003, allege the Canada Research Chairs Program discriminates against women, aboriginal people, […]

Près de la moitié des Canadiens sont favorables à la gratuité de l’enseignement postsecondaire, révèle le plus récent sondage d’opinion Decima Research commandé par l’ACPPU. Dans l’ensemble, l’appui public pour l’élimination des frais de scolarité aux niveaux collégial et universitaire […]

Conference gathers young scholars of the Middle East & Islam adjusting to post-9/11 changes. Scholars in Islamic and Middle East studies met at the University of Toronto in November to discuss post-9/11 prospects and challenges for Canadian research in Middle […]

Ce mois-ci, Hong Kong accueillera la Conférence internationale des ministres du commerce qui chercheront à relancer les négociations, mises en veilleuse pour l’instant, en vue d’étendre la portée des accords régissant le commerce international des biens et des services. Ceux […]

University is done for its own sake, not for the sake of something else. It has no product. One point of university is to stand against the idea that everything is done for money. This makes university different from much […]

An independent review of the Canada Research Chairs Program that funds 2,000 positions at Canadian universities has found serious flaws in its design and implementation. The program review conducted by CAUT highlights three major problems: equity, management of the awards […]