Bulletin Archive

Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia Washington: American Association of University Women Educational Foundation & American Association of University Women Legal Advocacy Fund, 2004; 105 pp; ISBN: 1-879922-34-7, paper $10 US. The authors of this "plaintiffs' cumulative biography" […]

Devant le recul marqué du financement public, les universités se tournent vers les sources de revenu privées. Selon un rapport établi par l'ACPPU, les universités et les collèges universitaires au Canada dépendent de plus en plus des sources de financement […]

Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists David H. Price. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2004; 448 pp; ISBN: 0-8223-3326-0, hardcover $84.95 US.; ISBN: 0-8223-3338-4, paper $23.95 US. David Price extends our knowledge of how far […]

The independence and integrity of medical education and research in Canada are at risk because too many clinical faculty do not enjoy the same academic freedom and employment rights as their non-clinical colleagues, warns a report issued last month by […]

The American Anthropological Association announced last month it was cancelling its annual meeting planned for San Francisco Nov. 17-21 to protest the lockout of unionized employees at a group of the city's hotels - including the Hilton, where 5,000 anthropologists […]

In the November 2004 Bulletin, Michael Geist describes Access Copyright programs using such inflammatory and silly terms as "cash grab" and "unnecessary." He makes no distinction between scientific and scholarly information (for which creators have already been paid, which is […]

The Canadian Federation of Students has unveiled a national student loan debt clock to highlight what it says has been an explosion in student loan debt. "Paul Martin declared a war on debt 10 years ago, but student loan debt […]

In his commentary on copyright (Bulletin, November 2004) Michael Geist suggests "copyright is important to the education community." In my 25 years as an educator I have not seen any evidence of this. In fact, according to numerous recent discussions, […]

Five new policy statements were adopted at last month's CAUT Council meeting. Employment Status of Graduate Students The policy statement on the employment status of graduate students seeks to ensure that graduate students who are given primary responsibility for a […]

L'ACPPU allègue que les lignes directrices internationales - en cours d'élaboration - qui sont destinées à régir les questions de qualité propres à l'éducation supérieure transfrontière ignorent les intérêts du corps universitaire et qu'elles pourraient promouvoir la privatisation. Les lignes […]

Je me suis rendue récemment à Winnipeg pour assister à une réunion des associations de professeurs de l'Ouest. Je me suis réveillée le 15 octobre au matin dans ma chambre de l'hôtel Winnipeg Sheraton et j'y ai trouvé sur le […]

Ils réclament une réduction des droits de scolarité. Dans un geste visant à dénoncer la réticence du gouvernement provincial à réduire les coûts de l'éducation, les étudiants de l'enseignement supérieur de la Colombie-Britannique ont déposé le mois dernier à l'assemblée […]