Bulletin Archive

Two Brandon University staff members have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a deadly cancer caused by asbestos exposure. One of the affected individuals is a faculty member and the other is a retired maintenance engineer. Built in the 1960s, the university’s […]

During my summer vacation I reread The Dissenting Academy, edited by Theodore Roszak. This book contains the famous essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," by Noam Chomsky, first published in this book. It got me thinking about teaching and learning. At […]

Gilles Paquet, the affable president of the Royal Society of Canada, turned up a short while ago in Guelph for a rare regional meeting of the society, and in his hortatory comments stressed the immense cultural good the learned fellows […]

University of Manitoba professor Stéphane McLachlan and his doctoral student Ian Mauro have asked CAUT for assistance in releasing their research video on genetically modified crops. Since 2002 the University of Manitoba has effectively blocked the release of "Seeds of […]

A CAUT report released last month shines new light on the financial woes facing universities and colleges and calls on the provinces and Ottawa to negotiate a new funding arrangement for post-secondary education. "Financing Canada’s universities and colleges: How Ottawa […]

Leslie Brown & Susan Strega, eds. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc., 2005; 312 pp; ISBN: 1-55130-275-6, paper $39.95 ca. Intended as a senior undergraduate and graduate text, Research as Resistance brings together the theory and practice of critical, Indigenous, and […]

Rachel Hile Bassett, ed. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005; 280 pp; ISBN: 0-8265-1478-2, paper $24.95 us.; ISBN: 0-8265-1477-4, hardcover $69.95 us. For those outside academia who face the conflicting demands of work and family, the typical professor’s job might seem […]

What the Best College Teachers Do Ken Bain. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004; 224 pp; ISBN: 0-674-01325-5, hardcover $21.95 us. Ken Bain, an historian who studies U.S. foreign policy, is the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at […]

Troubling Women’s Studies: Pasts, Presents and Possibilities Ann Braithwaite, Susan Heald, Susanne Luhmann & Sharon Rosenberg. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004; 264 pp; ISBN: 1-894549-36-8, paper $28.95 ca. Three decades after its inauguration, women’s studies as a field of academic study […]

Governing Academia: Who is in Charge at the Modern University? Ronald G. Ehrenberg, ed. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2004; 336 pp; ISBN: 0-8014-4054-8, hardcover $35 us. With three exceptions the 14 authors of these 10 commissioned chapters are […]

In July, the University of Toronto awarded Kin-Yip Chun a paid leave of absence that will continue until June 2011. Professor Kin-Yip Chun has finally won a settlement in his long-standing dispute with the University of Toronto and its physics […]

Peter Simpson est entré en fonctions à l’ACPPU à la mi-juillet à titre de nouveau directeur général adjoint. Auparavant, M. Simpson était professeur adjoint de philosophie à l’Université Laurentienne, à Sudbury (Ontario), où il assumait également la présidence de l’association […]