Bulletin Archive

Last month, CAUT published its Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee's report on the case involving Dr. David Noble and Simon Fraser University. I believe the facts speak for themselves. It is not my intention to review the report. But, there […]

Les pourparlers visant à libéraliser davantage le commerce mondial ont échoué le mois dernier à Cancun, Mexique, après le refus des pays les plus riches de satisfaire aux exigences des pays en développement en ce qui concerne le problème épineux […]

Engineers are warning that rules issued by the U.S. Treasury Department this month could restrict the free exchange of scientific information. The Bush administration says the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, with more than 350,000 members worldwide, must stop […]

Families on the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder have significantly lower participation rates in post-secondary education, says a Statistics Canada survey released last month. The first Post-Secondary Education Participation Survey found that the state of a young person's family […]

Mount Saint Vincent University has become the first university to introduce the Women's Future Fund as an optional payroll deduction for faculty and staff. Founded in 1996, the WFF is a partnership of autonomous, national, equality-seeking, charitable women's organizations dedicated […]

Robert D. Steadward, Garry D. Wheeler & E. Jane Watkinson, eds. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press & Steadward Centre, 2003; 704 pp; hardcover $89.95 CA. Persons with disability have come a long way - from concerns with mere survival to […]

Growth & Governance of Canadian Universities: An Insider's View Howard C. Clark. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003; 240 pp; hardcover $85 ca., paper $24.95 CA., (paper edition available Jan. 2004). New Zealander Howard Clark arrived in Canada in […]

University of British Columbia graduate student Cynthia Maughan has filed an $18million lawsuit in B.C.'s Supreme Court against the university and four faculty members, alleging discrimination against her based on her Christian beliefs. "The unfounded allegations of discrimination in this […]

"Current tuition levels in Canada would have prevented many of you from getting the post-secondary education you did," CAUT executive director James Turk told members of the federal government's caucus committee on post-secondary education at last month's Liberal summer caucus […]

Victor Catano writes (Bulletin, June 2003) that "privatization threatens the quality of education." He's right - it threatens to improve it. Private institutions will compete for students, faculty and staff with subsidized public institutions. Students at successful private institutions will […]

I wish to register my protest against CAUT's support for the AAUP plan to censure the University of South Florida in the case of Sami Al-Arian (Bulletin, June 2003). This is a singularly unwise course of action. It has so […]

Morton Weinfeld says he wishes he had Victor Catano's certainty in opposing the attack on Iraq but then states "there was no other option but military force." I am astonished at his casual dismissal of "legality" as "not the ultimate […]