Interview / Yves Gingras
In your book Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses, you essentially tear performance indicators apart. What are your main arguments?
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CAUT Statement on December 6
On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we remember the École Polytechnique massacre, where 14 women were murdered in Montreal in 1989 because they were women.
CAUT welcomes the reinstatement of Canada’s Chief Science Advisor
The reinstatement of Canada’s Chief Science Advisor is a positive step toward ensuring that scientific considerations help guide the federal government’s policy choices says the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT).
CAUT Submission to the Fundamental Science Review
The Canadian Association of University Teachers tabled a submission to the Fundamental Science Review highlighting the fact that fundamental resea
Time to get science right
A self-proclaimed “pro-science” government, a federal review of support for fundamental science, a major revamp of a controversial reform of health research grants, a new.
President’s message / The spirit of consultation
‘Tis the season of consultations. Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government wants to know what people think about a great many things. A recent count, taken from the government’s Consulting with Canadians website, puts the number of official consultations in progress at 85.
Book review / Uncivil rites: Palestine and the limits of academic freedom
Steven Salaita, Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2016; 254 pp; ISBN: 978-1-60846-577-4.
Commentary / Why no funding for the humanities?
The Canada First Research Excellence Fund’s announcement of grant recipients earlier this month was met with celebrations by many Canadian researchers and scholars.
Interview / Ted Stathopoulos
On June 6, 2016, news broke that a Canadian scholar had been arrested and imprisoned in Iran. Dr. Homa Hoodfar’s colleagues at the Concordia University Faculty Association immediately took action to campaign for her release.