Bulletin Archive

Audrey MacNevin, Ellen O’Reilly, Elaine Leslau Silverman & Anne Tayler, eds. Ottawa: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2002; 224 pp; paper $13.95 CA. Leadership emerges in every setting where there are women, in quilting guilds and workplaces, […]

Gene Swimmer, ed. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2001; 232 pp; paper $24.95 CA. The 1990s in Canada will probably go down as the most stressful decade for public-sector industrial relations since the inception, 25 years earlier, of collective […]

Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education David F. Noble. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002; 116 pp; paper $19.95 CA. David Noble’s book describes the commodification and commercialization of higher education through online instruction. More precisely, it denounces the […]

Conflicts of interest are so widespread in biomedical research that nearly one in four scientists have financial ties to industry, according to the findings of a new study released last month. The study, conducted by researchers at Yale University School […]

Students across the country are reeling from hefty tuition hikes recently announced by many institutions for the next academic year. From Victoria to Halifax, tuition fees are set to record one of their biggest one-year increases on record when the […]

Although academics at the University of Toronto are disappointed with an arbitrator’s decision to award a 3 per cent across-the-board salary increase for the 2002–2003 academic year, George Luste, president of the University of Toronto Faculty Association, says it’s the […]

Le commissaire à la protection de la vie privée, George Radwanski, prévient que le droit à la protection de la vie privée au Canada est, plus que jamais, gravement menacé. Dans le rapport annuel qu’il a rendu public le mois […]

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 […]