Bulletin Archive

TechBC president Jean Watters stirred up a hornet's nest with his recent remarks that the three-year-old university was going to stay "creative" and "competitive" partly by working without a senate, without unions and without tenure. Under significant financial and political […]

The University of Lethbridge Faculty Association and the board of governors signed a memorandum of agreement in June for salary and benefits from July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2002. The university's faculty members, professional librarians and academic assistants received […]

In a recent budget brief submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, CAUT recommended the federal government revise the way it funds post-secondary education and guarantee that continued fiscal surpluses are directed into areas most needed. CAUT […]

Academics and equity advocates have added their voices to a growing criticism of the Canada Research Chairs Program. According to the government's allocation figures, less than 17 per cent of the chairs awarded in the first year of the program […]

Bishop's University Faculty Association has voted to join the National Union of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (NUCAUT), becoming the twelfth association to do so. Bishop's joins Memorial, Mount Saint Vincent, Cape Breton, Mount Allison, York, Windsor, Laurentian, Algoma, […]

The survival of academia's cherished "information commons" is on the line as Parliament gears up for another round of amendments to the Copyright Act. This time the focus is the impact of digital technology on the rights of creators, owners […]

First Nations people are bearing the brunt of rising tuition fees and stagnant funding for post-secondary education, the Assembly of First Nations is warning. While tuition fees once again rose in 2001, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada did not increase […]

Jim Stanford's commentary "We Don't Need No Education" (Bulletin, September 2001) provides a breath of fresh air to all the cant about the purpose of higher education being for "higher productivity" and "global market competitiveness." But the irony of the […]

The president of the University of Toronto says that scholarships given to bright but wealthy students should be spent instead on deserving students who are truly in financial need. Robert Birgeneau is calling on other university presidents to support a […]

In recent years there have been an increased number of occurrences wherein academic freedom has been the subject of report and discussion. Veracity of positions of fact taken by academics has been ignored and dismissed, discounted and shunned or even […]

A Quebec tribunal is being asked to overturn a 1998 decision that dismissed a claim made by the McGill Students Society and student Paul Ruel that higher university fees for out-of-province students is discriminatory. Since 1997, Quebec undergraduate students pay […]

Ghosts in the Classroom: Stories of College Adjunct Faculty and the Price We All Pay Michael Dubson, ed. Boston: Camel's Back Books, 2001; 155 pp; paper $12.95 US, $18.95 CA. Ghosts in the Classroom is a collection of readings which […]