Bulletin Archive

By James Compton Excellence. It’s one of today’s favourite academic words. You won’t find a university president who doesn’t claim that their institution pursues and embodies excellence in teaching and research. And why not? Canadian univer­sities have quality scholars teaching […]

William Kaplan. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, 376 pp; ISBN: 978-0-77355-070-4. by Charles Reeve Robert Latimer was guilty. But that’s only partly why a jury convicted him of murdering his 12-year-old daughter Tracy, in 1993. The jury sympathized with Lati­mer’s sense […]

By David Robinson It’s a case that repeats a familiar pattern that’s played out recently on campuses across North America. A professor found himself under fire for expressing controversial views. Public outrage and calls for his dismissal followed, powerful donors […]

Mirjana Roksandic at the University of Winnipeg writes I work in an incredibly small but busy four-field anthropology department. After years of crisis management induced by budget cuts, our department met in June to discuss a new course proposal: how […]

When CAUT conducted a national survey of contract academic staff last year, it was the first time this growing segment of the academic workforce was given such a voice. The survey aimed to hear about their working conditions, feelings and […]

Karen Foster is an associate professor of sociology at Dalhousie University and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada. She is the co-author of Out of the Shadows: Experiences of Contract Academic Staff which reports on results […]

Jim Clark at the University of Winnipeg writes Although it would seem reasonable that analyses of equity issues should have objectivity and lack of bias as major values, these qualities were certainly not obvious in the April 2018 issue of […]

By James Compton Here’s a headline grabber: “Corporate Canada Now Controls More Than One-Third of All Seats on University Boards Across Ontario.” The headline is from a report published in April by PressProgress, an activist website associated with the Broadbent […]

Science Minister Kirsty Duncan addressed CAUT’s Council on April 27 to talk about the importance of federal investments in fundamental research. “Without the hard work of Canada’s researchers, we would not have the discoveries and innovations that are powering a […]