Bulletin Archive

By James Compton I can date when I first started to learn how to think independently. I was an undergraduate student in my second year at Simon Fraser University. It was 1982 — yes, I’m that old — and the […]

Canada has the appearance of being on the right track when it comes to climate change and what to do about it. A cursory examination of recent headlines reveals not just our country’s staunch defense of the veracity of climate […]

Canada has the appearance of being on the right track when it comes to climate change and what to do about it. A cursory examination of recent headlines reveals not just our country’s staunch defense of the veracity of climate […]

I can date when I first started to learn how to think independently. I was an undergraduate student in my second year at Simon Fraser University. It was 1982 — yes, I’m that old — and the professor in the […]

A Quebec Superior Court judge has retracted his earlier ruling that required a Université du Québec à Montréal professor to violate the confidentiality of her research participants. On May 31, in a case where CAUT intervened, Justice Marc St-Pierre ruled […]

In April, following a five-year hiatus, Statistics Canada published initial data from its annual survey of academic staff showing that women represent a growing proportion of the teaching staff in post-secondary institutions across the country. According to the University and […]

  iStock.com / Oshi Like mothers throughout history, Turkish academic Elcin Aktoprak’s hopes and fears are many. “I am afraid for my son’s future the most,” she says. “The political situation in Turkey is unpredictable and although I am a […]

I’m not much of a Twitter user. To be honest, I find the medium to be a promotional distraction. But a recent tweet did manage to grab my full attention. No, I don’t mean one of Donald Trump’s early morning […]

Tom Nichols Oxford University Press, 2017; 240 pp; ISBN: 978-0-19046-941-2. A survey of 7,000 freshmen at colleges and universities around the country found just 6 per cent of them able to name the 13 colonies that founded the United States. […]

R.L. of Vancouver writes I have assigned ‘A’ grades to a narrow majority of students in a small, upper level class — a class populated with many bright students. The associate dean has approached me informally and suggested I reassess […]