Bulletin Archive

Faculty at Mount Saint Vincent University have asked for a conciliator to help with contract negotiations. Mount Saint Vincent University Faculty Association says contract talks broke off in December when the university refused to budge on salaries. "We've had extremely […]

CAUT has established a committee that will investigate recent changes to McMaster University senate guidelines on what academic staff may say to the media. Concern arose last spring after press reports that the university senate adopted a policy prohibiting faculty […]

CAUT president Victor Catano expressed grave disappointment with the federal government's throne speech delivered earlier this month. "At a time when universities and colleges are facing a crisis of underfunding, Paul Martin's government offers absolutely nothing in its first throne […]

Janet Freedman & Marie Howes. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishing, 2003; 311 pp; paper $35.95 CA. Death is a certainty - disability is a random chance which most people try to ignore. Yet your chances of suffering a disability before […]

Aaron Doyle. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003; 198 pp; hardcover $50 CA., paper $24.95 CA. While most research on television examines its impact on viewers, Arresting Images asks instead how TV influences what is in front of the camera, […]

Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Challenging the Chill Elena Hannah, Linda Paul & Swani Vethamany-Globus, eds. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002; 288 pp; hardcover $75 CA., paper $29.95 CA. If you are interested in the experiences and […]

Les professeurs de Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) réclament l'intervention d'un conciliateur pour faire débloquer les négociations contractuelles. Selon l'association des professeurs de MSVU, les pourparlers ont été rompus en décembre lorsque l'université a refusé de faire la moindre concession […]

Kwantlen University College administrators have announced they will use provincial legislation to override the faculty contract on class-size limits. It's the first post-secondary institution in British Columbia to attempt to use special powers granted by Gordon Campbell's Liberal government to […]

Acadia University and the faculty union are heading into a possible strike as union members voted overwhelmingly Jan. 28 to reject the latest contract offer from the university. Jim Sacouman, chief negotiator for Acadia University Faculty Association, said 95 per […]

Regarding "Eliminating Tuition Fees Would Make Manitoba a National Leader," (Bulletin, Dec. 2003). There is something that has to be thrashed out before the scholarly community in Canada comes to look ridiculously stupid. Errol Black and Robert Chernomas declare there […]

McInnis asserts that all the economic benefits "accrue to the individuals who receive (university) instruction and to the shareholders of the enterprises which employ them." The policy implication of this view would seem to be that the costs of instruction […]

Richard Nemesvari's response (Bulletin, Jan. 2004) to my comments on essays and plagiarism (Bulletin, Dec. 2003) is a clear indication that this is indeed a serious issue. However, in light of Professor Nemesvari's input to the discussion, I believe further […]