Bulletin Archive

Colleges and universities in the United States are finding themselves at the centre of an ethical debate following the wave of corporate scandals and criminal mischief that has swept across Wall Street. As part of their investigation of the suspect […]

At the end of November, Roy Romanow released the final report of the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. The major recommendations of the report call for the federal government to: Increase health spending by $15 […]

As a result of the dreadful events of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States began to tighten security at its borders and its transportation and strategic facilities. This is something I fully understand. In fact, since the explosion of Pan […]

À la fin de novembre, Roy Romanow a déposé le rapport final de la Commission royale sur l’avenir des soins de santé au Canada. Les principales recommandations du rapport demandent au gouvernement fédéral : d’augmenter les dépenses au titre de […]

The United States Department of Energy has shut down PubScience, a popular Internet site that provided users with a free search of citations and abstracts in more than 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific journals. The decision to close the site came after […]

La juge d’une cour de district de la Floride a refusé de trancher la question de savoir si l’intention de l’University of South Florida de congédier un professeur permanent controversé léserait le droit de celui-ci à la liberté d’expression. Les […]

A Florida district court judge has refused to rule on whether the University of South Florida’s plan to fire a controversial tenured professor would violate his constitutional right to free speech. USF officials allege that Sami Al-Arian has helped raise […]

L’association des professeurs du collège universitaire Augustana a annoncé qu’une majorité de ses membres avait signé la pétition en faveur de l’accréditation. Selon Gerhard Lotz, président de l’Augustana University College Faculty Association, cette décision est survenue lorsque le conseil d’administration […]

Faculty and librarians who work at Mount Allison University have ratified a new collective agreement reached in mid-December with the help of a provincially-appointed mediator. The four-year agreement calls for a 3 per cent salary increase in each year of […]

Une nouvelle étude, rendue publique le mois dernier, conclut que les conflits d’intérêts sont si répandus en recherche biomédicale que près d’un scientifique sur quatre a des liens financiers avec l’industrie. L’étude, menée par des chercheurs de l’école de médecine […]

Goals set by Status of Women Canada for this year’s International Women’s Day and International Women’s Week include examining the impact of new information and communication technologies, such as the Internet, on women and their use as a tool for […]

Les étudiantes et étudiants du pays ploient sous le poids de lourdes hausses des droits de scolarité que de nombreux établissements d’enseignement ont annoncées récemment pour la prochaine année universitaire. De Victoria à Halifax, les droits de scolarité établiront un […]