Bulletin Archive

— Source: Statistics Canada, 2016 Census / Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, Nielsen Survey 2016

By James Compton Academics are protective of their independence. Anyone who has spent time working with professors knows this. Certainly, university administrators are aware of it. Professors, as a rule, don’t like taking direction from others, nor do they accept […]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Official Languages Act. It’s certainly a venerable milestone, and many experts, Francophones, and Francophiles are hoping it serves as a catalyst not only for injecting new strength into this pillar of our […]

Penni Stewart is president of the Harry Crowe Foundation and a Fellow at the Centre for Free Expression, Ryerson University. Also a past president of CAUT 2008–2011, Penni additionally served on CAUT’s Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, and is emerita […]

René Wells at the University of Calgary writes: I just read the president’s message in the February Bulletin. I suggest the president is plain wrong in his understanding and interpretation of “taxes are theft.” This has nothing to do with […]

Tim Stainton at the University of British Columbia writes: I enjoyed the piece in the February Bulletin on the Matilda Effect but wanted to point out you may well have added to it. While you rightly point out the work […]

Lisa Wood at the University of Northern British Columbia writes: I just wanted to say thanks for running the stats and article in the February Bulletin to bring more attention to women in science.

Martin Daly at McMASTER University writes: I notice two ironies in your February Bulletin cover story about the difficulties that women in science continue to face and the systemic obscuring and appropriation of their accomplishments. The first is that the […]

By James Compton Where does hope for positive change in post-secondary education come from? Should we fix our gaze on the horizon, looking forward with confidence that the future will be bright? Or should we pause and take time to […]

Marc Spooner & James McNinch (eds). University of Regina Press, 2018; 319 pp; ISBN: 978-0-88977-536-7. By Robin Whitaker Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education originated in “Public Engagement and the Politics of Evidence in an Age of Neoliberalism and Audit Culture,” […]

Martin Parker. Pluto Press 2019; 198 pp; ISBN: 978-0-74539-916-4. By Len Findlay The author of this self-styled “polemic” is an eminent figure in management studies in the United Kingdom. His is very much an insider’s challenge to what he takes […]