Bulletin Archive

Dawn Williams. Toronto: D.P. Williams & Associates, 2002; 421 pp; hardcover $59.99 CA., paper $39.99 CA. Canada's Blacks are trailblazers and innovators. But just who are they? If you've ever wondered who the leading Black citizens are in our society […]

Elizabeth McIninch, ed. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Carol-Canada Publications Ltd., 2003; 224 pp; hardcover $59.95 CA. Canada: The New Millennium Series highlights our nation's accomplishments through highly-informative original articles by leading Canadians. Among them are historian Desmond Morton's overview on Canadian […]

The Erosion of Democracy in Education: From Critique to Possibilities John P. Portelli & R. Patrick Solomon, eds. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd., 2001; 328 pp; paper $26.95 CA. In 1925, a British Columbia Royal Commission insisted that: "The development of […]

CAUT has joined the equity rights organization, Egale Canada. "Egale has done important work in promoting justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people and their families," said CAUT executive director James Turk. "Given CAUT's historic commitment to […]

Au nom de l'Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université, je tiens à vous féliciter pour votre élection comme chef du Parti libéral du Canada et, à compter du 12 décembre prochain, comme premier ministre du Canada. Nous nous réjouissons […]

L'ACPPU a accueilli récemment deux nouveaux membres de l'Ontario, la Brescia Faculty Association et l'association des professeurs du Collège des arts et du design de l'Ontario, ainsi que la Saskatchewan Association of University Teachers. " L'arrivée de ces membres vient […]

" La dernière étape du processus de réforme du droit d'auteur a mal démarré ", a déclaré Ken Field, président du groupe de travail sur la propriété intellectuelle de l'ACPPU. Tout au long des mois d'octobre et de novembre, le […]

Victor Catano's column about confusing collegiality with congeniality (Bulletin, Oct. 2003) went straight to the heart of a thorny patch of issues that have caused me a lot of grief in my 10 years at the University of Alberta. Universities […]

CAUT has appointed a committee of inquiry to examine the issue of academic freedom for university administrators. The committee is being chaired by Bill Bruneau, professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and a member of CAUT's Academic Freedom […]

Canada is experiencing a flight of newly-minted PhDs, a pilot study undertaken by Statistics Canada has found. A large number of doctoral graduates from the University of Toronto and the Université de Montréal are leaving the country for employment or […]

In his critique of the current free-market model for funding pharmaceutical research "Bad Rx - Big Pharma & Medical Research" (commentary, Bulletin, Oct. 2003), ethics professor Arthur Schafer argues that, "if biomedical researchers and their universities are to retain public […]

Peter Anderson writes (bookshelf, Bulletin, Oct. 2003) "university departments such as chemistry and physics whose major role in the undergraduate curriculum for many years has been the provision of introductory service courses to biology, biochemistry and engineering students." Oh dear! […]