Bulletin Archive

One of the standard fallacies of reasoning is "the slippery slope." Many of us learned about it in history courses, perhaps by considering the example of John Foster Dulles and American foreign policy in the 1950s. The argument went that […]

Les changements socio-politiques à grande échelle sont un peu comme la neige à Timmins ou la pluie à Vancouver : ils s'installent furtivement. Lorsque vous les remarquez, leurs effets se font déjà sentir un peu partout et ils sont irréversibles. […]

Le conseil d'université de l'Université Carleton a voté, trois semaines avant Noël, en faveur d'un projet d'abolition de programmes d'enseignement dans deux facultés émanant des cadres supérieurs. À l'instar d'autres universités, le conseil d'université de Carleton constitue la plus haute […]

Program Closures & Layoffs During the first week of December the Carleton University Senate voted to accept a proposal by senior administrators to close academic programs in two faculties. As at other universities, the senate is Carleton's highest authority in […]

I thought I was reading a Franz Kafka novel, not a report in the CAUT Bulletin (Newsline, December): Mary Warner was fired 11 years ago, but the case has apparently just been "settled?" It took six years for her to […]

The research community has lost a passionate and eloquent advocate through the death of Dr. Keith Brimacombe on Dec. 16, in Vancouver of a heart attack. It was only this past October that he assumed the tremendous challenge of becoming […]

The article in the November issue, "The Subtleties of Silence Can Be Deafening," reveals the blinders worn by its author. Professor Bankier nowhere spells out the differences between trying to silence one's critics and legitimate argumentation or valid defence against […]

Large-scale social and political change is a bit like snow in Timmins or rain in Vancouver - it can sneak up on you. By the time you notice, the effects are pervasive and irreversible. The rising popularity of privatization in […]

Status & Governance: realizing Academic Power - What Next? That was the theme of CAUT's Librarians' Conference held in St. John's, Newfoundland, during the first weekend in November. The theme was developed in many ways as the assembled librarians grappled […]

The Ministry of Human Resources Development has announced the 1997 merit award winners for initiatives in employment equity, undertaken under the Federal Contractors Program. Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) has established two types of awards: Vision Awards and Certificates of […]

On Nov. 22 representatives of more than 70 Canadian university faculty organizations gave formal approval to a plan to boycott the controversial Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC). International faculty organizations are anxious to see the British Columbia legislation amended […]

The saga began 30 years ago when UNESCO adopted a recommendation on the status of teachers. This was designed to set out the rights and responsibilities of primary and secondary school teachers. At the time there were demands to expand […]