Bulletin Archive

James Lewis, professeur de mathématiques à l'Université de l'Alberta, a été rappelé brutalement à la réalité le mois dernier alors qu'il se rendait à une conférence à Chicago. Lorsqu'il est arrivé à l'aéroport d'Edmonton, son billet électronique en main, et […]

Deux professeurs du département d'anthropologie de l'Université du Manitoba sont décédés d'une forme rare et fatale de cancer, le mésothéliome. Ce que l'on connaît du mésothéliome, c'est sa cause : l'exposition à l'amiante. Étant donné que ce matériau règne au […]

A mathematics professor at the University of Alberta had a rude awakening recently while traveling to a conference in Chicago. James Lewis arrived at the Edmonton airport Sept. 15 with an electronic ticket and tried to get his boarding pass […]

First Nations students in Canada are protesting changes to federal tax rules that may soon require them to pay income tax on scholarships and bursaries they receive to attend a university or college. "Post-secondary education has been determined to be […]

Former Ontario premier Bob Rae's post-secondary education review has been launched with a discussion paper that describes a system "in serious jeopardy" because the province's colleges and universities have been starved for funding. The discussion paper presents a sharply worded […]

The University of Manitoba's anthropology department has lost two members of its academic staff to a rare and fatal form of cancer - mesothelioma. One thing known about mesothelioma is its cause - exposure to asbestos. Since many of our […]

You have probably never been called "Professor Pregnant." I have. A pregnant faculty body was an oddity back in the 1970s. Who would have guessed that combining an academic career with children would remain so fraught with obstacles a generation […]

Chris Cutler, a PhD student at the University of Guelph, has been awarded CAUT's 2004 J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship. CAUT presented the $5,000 scholarship to Cutler for his work on the development of environmentally sound and sustainable agriculture through […]

Tokyo meeting seen as chance to influence global guidelines CAUT has been invited to join the official Canadian delegation to the next UNESCO and OECD meeting aimed at drafting international guidelines on quality assurance in cross-border higher education. The meeting […]

Canada's education community, including teachers unions, school boards and provincial ministries of education, has united to oppose a recommendation from the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that would force schools, colleges and universities to pay a license […]

Higher tuition fees and rising debt levels are driving more qualified students in the Maritimes away from a university education, a recent study concludes. The report released by the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission shows that fewer university students in […]

Arjun P. Aggarwal & Madhu M. Gupta. Ottawa: Harassment Publications, 2004; 208 pp; ISBN: 0-9735335-0-1; paper $39.95 CA. This book specifically deals with preventive and remedial steps for resolving harassment complaints in the workplace. The authors provide clear, concise and […]