Bulletin Archive

Canada's immigration services sent a Tunisian student to certain torture and imprisonment earlier this year despite warnings from Amnesty International and the Association for Human Rights in the Maghreb of the consequences of this deportation. Laval University law student Haroun […]

Après la conférence de presse, a eu lieu à l'Université Dalhousie une tribune publique mettant en vedette le journaliste politique réputé et ancien président du Parti progressiste conservateur national, Dalton Camp. M. Camp a félicité l'ACPPU d'avoir organisé les audiences […]

Employment & Working Conditions of Academic Staff in Europe Jürgen Enders, ed. Frankfurt: German Trade Union for Education & Science, 2000; 272 pp; limited distribution, contact Robert Leger at CAUT (leger@caut.ca). This publication derives from a conference organized in 1999 […]

Le 10 mars, une journée complète d'audience, présidée par le journaliste Parker Barss Donham, le président du Nova Scotia Teachers' Union, Brian Forbes, et Susan Le- Fort, représentante de la Nouvelle-Écosse de l'Organisation nationale anti-pauvreté, a commencé avec les projecteurs […]

Unequal Access: A Canadian Profile of Racial Differences in Education, Employment & Income Jean Lock Kunz, Anne Milan & Sylvain Schetagne. Toronto: Canadian Race Relations Foundation, 2000; 40 pp; full report and report highlights (pdf files) available at www.crr.ca. Is […]

David Noble's appointment to J.S. Woodsworth Chair challenged by Simon Fraser administration. The Simon Fraser University administration has been accused of attempting to block the appointment of David Noble as the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities. Noble, a professor […]

The University of Western Sydney, one of Australia's largest universities, admitted it was forced to bury an estimated 10,000 books, including many rare editions, because it lacked the funding to pay for storage costs. University administrators said government funding cuts […]

Growing crisis in access to education say students. The board of governors of Ryerson Polytechnic University has approved a new masters program in Computer Networks that will cost $20,000 a year in tuition fees. "It's a slap in the face […]

Campus, Inc.: Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower Geoffry D. White with Flannery C. Hauck, eds. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2000; 469 pp; cloth $35 US. In Campus, Inc. Geoffry White and Flannery Hauck bring together essays by an […]

The RCMP quizzed a University of Lethbridge professor about his role in organizing an indigenous rights conference coinciding with the Quebec City Summit of the Americas later this month. Tony Hall, associate professor of Native American studies, said a member […]

Universities appear poised on the edge of the biggest faculty hiring boom since the 1960s when the conjugated effects of the post-war baby boom and new thinking about access to higher education saw more than 18,000 new faculty hired at […]

The thoughtful commentary by Jeremy Richards (Bulletin, March 2001) will undoubtedly strike a responsive chord among many of us. Mutual trust between universities and government can be nurtured by placing increasing numbers of the best graduates into the political arena. […]