Bulletin Archive

I wish to express my thanks to CAUT's Status of Women Committee: Jennifer Bankier, Jeanette Lynes, Jennifer Mather, Linda Paul and Joan Scott, for a superb supplement (Bulletin, April). As an academic with 28 years' experience, during which I was […]

erhaps the Law-Tuinman spat at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Bulletin, April) has obscured what I believe is one of the most unfortunate outcomes of the vice-president academic's tenure at this university -- the emasculation of the faculty of science. By […]

essionals and other temporary staff at the University of Alberta have reached their first agreement with the university. After consulting with the academic staff association in the fall of 1997, the board of governors declared that those academics on temporary […]

University of Winnipeg Faculty Association members have voted 91.5 per cent in favour of the new four year agreement with the University of Winnipeg Board of Regents. The board of regents has already given approval to the contract. The contract […]

The Acadia University Faculty Association (AUFA) has voted overwhelmingly to support Acadia students in their recent call for a comprehensive review of the leadership of Dr. Kelvin Ogilvie, President of Acadia University. AUFA President, Dr. Jim Sacouman said that relations […]

On April 21, with a 96 per cent vote in favour, the Queen's University Faculty Association ratified an agreement between the University and QUFA to provide a scale increase of 1.25 per cent for all members of the bargaining unit, […]

When mishandled harassment cases put Simon Fraser University prominently in the national news last summer, the mass media focused on SFU's swim coach, who was first charged with sexual harassment, then fired, then rehired, and finally compensated for his legal […]

Le 20 mars 1998, l'ACPPU et la Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia (CUFA/BC) ont annoncé qu'elles avaient conclu une entente avec la Technical University of British Columbia (Tech BC) qui met fin à un boycottage de huit […]

Tee L. Guidotti explique comment l'évaluation des travaux de recherche peut omettre des aspects méthodologiques dont la valeur et le mérite scientifiques sont difficilement mesurables. Pour étayer son argument, il donne l'exemple des études épidémiologiques que son groupe de chercheurs […]

On Mar. 20 CAUT and the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia (CUFA/ BC) announced an agreement with the Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC) to lift an eight-month boycott of Canada's newest university. "The agreement is the […]

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Deutsche Kommunistische Partei?" If your desire is to participate in the Canadian Studies Visiting Professors Program at the University of Augsburg in the German state of Bavaria, you […]

For excellent reasons investigators are being held accountable for their use of public funds and their research productivity. This may be a good thing, but we have not yet got it right. My doubts about evaluation as currently practiced are […]