Bulletin Archive

Sam Bronfman, à qui l'on de mandait ce qu'il croyait être la plus grande invention des temps modernes, a eu cette réponse désormais passée à l'histoire : " l'intérêt composé. " Nul doute que M. Bronfman, s'il avait eu le […]

Près de quatre Canadiens sur dix se disent très préoccupés par le coût des frais de scolarité des universités et des collèges, selon les résultats d'un important sondage mené à l'échelle nationale. Dans l'Atlantique Canada, plus de la moitié des […]

Nearly four in 10 Canadians are very concerned about the cost of university and college tuition, a major national poll concludes. In Atlantic Canada, more than half of those surveyed said they were very concerned about the cost of education. […]

Victor Catano (President's Column, Bulletin, Feb. 2004) has raised some critical issues concerning faculty employment. These include the separation of teaching and research, the hiring of contract professors and the option of ending mandatory retirement to help alleviate the looming […]

I am writing to express my disappointment with your recent Almanac of Post-Secondary Education in Canada. The idea behind this publication is great. One of the most important tools for bringing about progressive change to an institution is detailed information […]

Business lore has it that Sam Bronfman, when asked what he thought was the greatest invention in modern times, replied, "compound interest." There is no doubt Bronfman, if given the choice between a penny placed in a savings account whose […]

The most recent book on the collapse of Enron Corp. and the scams that led to that debacle (Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind, The Smartest Guys in the Room, 2003) points out that Enron executives were devotees of merit pay […]

CAUT is warning that last month's federal budget will not improve access to Canada's universities and colleges. The budget, Paul Martin's first as prime minister, unveiled a series of high profile measures intended to make it easier for lower- and […]

In his President's Column (Bulletin, February 2004), Victor Catano raised a number of important issues related to the crisis that awaits academia as more and more professors retire in the coming decade. In particular, I want to address one specific […]

It is estimated that one out of 16 Canadians will become ill or injured in their place of work this year. Some will carry the effects for the rest of their lives. Many will lose their lives due to workplace […]

Professors accept new contract offer; deal ends one-week strike. A tentative agreement reached March 21 ended a seven-day strike called by the Association of Professors of Bishop's University. "It was a long and difficult round of negotiation," said Nelly Khouzam, […]

An academic conference at the University of Ottawa was abruptly cancelled last month after permission for five key participants to enter the country was mysteriously withheld by the Canadian government. The conference had planned to explore the resettlement of former […]