Bulletin Archive

QUE le Comité de direction ait le pouvoir de prendre des mesures au sujet de la déclaration des trois conseils subventionnaires sur le code d'éthique de la recherche avec des êtres humains, que le personnel juridique de l'ACPPU revoie le […]

British Columbia's post-secondary institutions will receive a $26-million boost in funding according to the March 30 provincial budget, which includes $17.5-million to create 2,900 new student spaces. The new funding was welcomed by university faculty, administrators and students, who have […]

A recent issue of the Bulletin featured two items on Memorial University's dispute with its former dean of science, Dr. Alan Law. You accepted, as truth, lock, stock and barrel MUNFA's account of the Law affair. You did not bother […]

Dr. Tuinman will of course have his own perspective on the CAUT Bulletin's coverage of the Law affair at Memorial, as do MUNFA and other parties involved. The background information MUNFA provided was factual, and in our view speaks for […]

Trustees of the fund have been called on a total of three times already in 1998 to consider requests for strike benefits. On Feb. 9 the board approved strike benefits, a line of credit and an additional loan for the […]

On the recommendation of the CAUT Executive Committee, CAUT Council has voted to rescind the boycott on the Technical University of British Columbia. The official lifting of the boycott follows extensive negotiations between officials of Canada's newest university and representatives […]

Carried: Annual fees for retired members to be increased to $25. Adopted: Policy Statement on Early Review of an Academic Administrator's Performance. Adopted: Policy Statement on Use of Anonymous Student Questionnaires. Approved: Model Clause on Privacy and Security of Personal […]

Russel Ogden, a graduate student in criminology at Simon Fraser University, was subpoenaed in 1994 to appear before Vancouver Coroner's Court to ascertain whether he could throw light on the cause of death of "Jane Doe." The Coroner was told […]

Killam Prizes The $50,000 Killam Prizes, inaugurated in 1981, are financed through funds donated to the Canada Council for the Arts by Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam before her death, in memory of her husband, Izaak Walton Killam. The prizes were […]

Kathleen A. Guy, ed., Ottawa: Canadian Institute of Child Health, 1997; 197 pp; paper $18.00 ca. This little book is about children and what we can do to make sure they thrive; it is for a Canadian audience and uses […]

Lawrence C. Soley, Boston: South End Press, 1995; 204 pp; paper $13.00 us. A married man with a family will do anything for money," Talleyrand is supposed to have said. Lawrence C. Soley's research indicates that the French statesman's quip […]

On May 27, faculty members at the University of Waterloo voted 93 per cent in favour of a "special plan" memorandum of agreement between the faculty association and the university. The board of governors ratified the agreement on June 1. […]