Bulletin Archive

As an organization of scholars and academics, CAUT has consistently upheld its commitment to resolving disputes through reason, knowledge and understanding, not violence. At the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education held in Paris in 1998, CAUT proposed a resolution, […]

Over the last four years Industry Canada and Human Resources Development Canada have been working to develop an "Innovation Strategy" for Canada. Many faculty and student groups have expressed concerns that the objective of the strategy, to increase commercialization of […]

Universities have the sole mandate to explore knowledge for its own sake. This admission is regarded by some as being damaging. The pursuit of knowledge without further purpose will, they fear, be regarded as frivolous. I beg to differ. Scientific […]

The federal government and the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada have agreed to a framework agreement on federally funded research. Under the terms of the agreement, AUCC members say they will double the amount of research their institutions […]

The University of California at San Diego has abandoned plans to discipline a student group for providing a website link to a site supporting an organization designated as a terrorist group by the United States government. The UCSD administration claimed […]

Michiel Horn, professor of history at Glendon College, York University, was honoured last month for his achievements and contributions to the cause of academic freedom. Horn received CAUT's highest honour, the Milner Memorial Award, at the November 2002 CAUT Council […]

Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997 Steve Hewitt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002; 304 pp; hardcover $30 CA. Spying 101 is a very interesting book about the security service of the RCMP and its operations […]

No Place to Learn: Why Universities Aren't Working Tom Pocklington & Allan Tupper. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002; 220 pp; hardcover $24.95 CA. With Canadian universities expecting to hire more than 20,000 new professors by the end of […]

Michael O. West. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002; 344 pp; hardcover $49.95 US., paper $22.95 US. Tracing their quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence, Michael West shows how some […]

J. Douglas Willms, ed. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press, 2002; 464 pp; paper $34.95 CA. All children in Canada live with risk. They are susceptible to disease and injury, and as they grow and learn they must face numerous […]

Manjunath Pendakur & Roma Harris, eds. Aurora, Ontario: Garamond Press, 2002; 442 pp; paper $34.95 CA. With the capacity for the almost instant transfer of digital information across and beyond our planet, commonly held notions of distance and speed, as […]

Les établissements d'enseignement postsecondaire du Canada éprouvent de véritables difficultés attribuables au sous-financement que lui imposent les deux paliers de gouvernement. Le corps professoral et les bibliothécaires sont les témoins permanents des conséquences de ce déficit. Le nombre des effectifs […]