Bulletin Archive

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. […]

The Ontario government wants to open "private" universities. Since, unlike businesses which can grow slowly, universities have very high start-up costs, the organizations best poised to start and run private universities arethe public ones. Here are my suggestions on steps […]

L'University of Prince Edward Island Faculty Association a soumis le 23 février une demande d'accréditation syndicale à la commission des relations de travail de la province. Selon Don Gillis, président de l'association des professeurs, une équipe de recrutement de 30 […]

Trente-cinq ans après le rapport Duff-Berdahl (University Government in Canada), la direction des universités canadiennes a évolué. Il s'avère intéressant de faire un tour d'horizon des changements survenus. Nous pouvons évoquer trois moments marquants de l'histoire de notre association pour […]

L'University of British Columbia Faculty Association a remporté une victoire décisive en obtenant le droit incontestable de représenter tous les professeurs de l'UBC. Dans une décision rendue le 18 décembre dernier, la commission des relations de travail de la Colombie-Britannique […]

Après plusieurs mois de correspondance électronique, le nouveau sous-comité de l'ACPPU sur l'équité a tenu sa première conférence téléphonique le 9 février. Mis sur pied l'automne dernier, le comité de sept membres conseillera le Comité de direction sur des préoccupations […]