Bulletin Archive

Denise Doherty-Delorme & Erika Shaker, eds. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2002; 150 pp; paper $19.95 CA. For the third year in a row, Missing Pieces examines the state of higher education in each province and provides an analysis […]

Post-secondary educators in British Columbia are taking their fight against the provincial government's controversial Bill 28 to the B.C. Supreme Court. At a news conference on April 3, representatives of the College Institute Educators' Association of B.C. and the B.C. […]

Vandana Shiva. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2002; 158 pp; hardcover $40 us, paper $14 US. In Water Wars, Vandana Shiva uses her remarkable knowledge of science and society to analyze the historical erosion of communal water rights. Examining the […]

The strike by members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association ended March 28 after a 92 per cent ratification vote for a new collective agreement. The strike by professors, librarians, counsellors and instructors began March 4 over complement, wages and fairness. […]

Sam M. Intrator, ed. Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 2002; 326 pp; paper $35.95 CA. Stories of the Courage to Teach is a collection of short essays from teachers at every level of practice. Anecdotal and personal, these stories are […]

Plans by University College of Cape Breton administrators to cut programs and eliminate positions were put on hold when UCCB's board of governors voted last month to delay a controversial new budget. Board members voted unanimously March 15 to table […]

Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University Sharon E. Kahn & Denis Pavlich, eds. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000; 192 pp; hardcover $75 CA. Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University evolved from a national conference held in April 1997 at the University […]

A leave to appeal application by two Trent University professors, supported by CAUT, over the closure of two colleges has been turned down by the Supreme Court of Canada, ending a lengthy dispute over university governance. Ian McLachlan and Andrew […]

Citing a massive number of retirements in the next decade, the University of Saskatchewan has made a move to attract junior faculty. A one-year deal between the university and its faculty association ratified in January gives all 900 union members […]

Our universities and colleges are facing enormous challenges threatening their ability to serve the public interest. Years of underfunding and rising tuition fees are seriously compromising accessibility. Decline in tenured faculty numbers and crumbling, health-threatening facilities have come at the […]

Babies wield a bizarre, gender-dependent power over academics, according to a recent study completed at the University of California at Berkeley. Researchers found that men who have babies "early" - that is, within five years of receiving a PhD - […]

Faculty members at the University of Saskatchewan have voted to rejoin CAUT, after an absence of seven years. Members of the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association voted overwhelmingly in favour of the affiliation at a general membership meeting April 2. […]