Two University of Ottawa criminologists are going to court to protect the confidentiality of research records they obtained in 2007.

Learning outcomes are frequently dismissed as a nuisance to be dutifully completed but Frank Furedi believes their prescriptive nature makes them an altogether more corrosive influence on higher education.

Controversy continues to dog a private school for international students that partnered with the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg as a “pathway” to future university studies.

Kent Weaver, a University of Tor­onto librarian whose lengthy and prestigious career included unwavering dedication to improving working conditions for academic librarians in Canada is the most recent winner of a CAUT top honour.

The threat of a strike hangs over St. Francis Xavier University. Last-ditch efforts at conciliation talks will take place between StFXAUT and university admin­istrators before possible strike action starts.

Ron Srigley’s jeremiad (Bulletin, December 2012) obscures the fact that the humanities are very much alive and flourishing in Canadian uni­versities. They certainly face challenges, as they should — complacency would threaten otherwise. But departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classical studies and others, continue to enrol and engage large numbers of students and pursue important and interesting research.

Jon Thompson was reelected to a second one-year term as president of the Harry Crowe Foundation at the 2012 annual general meeting in December. He has served on the board of directors of the charitable foundation since it was founded in 2003.

Andrew Delbanco is a biographer of Herman Melville, a well-reputed historian of American ideas, a successful essayist, and professor of English at Columbia.

In the 1960s, Kamal Al-Solaylee’s father was one of the wealthiest property owners in Aden, in the south of Yemen, but when the country shrugged off its colonial roots, his properties were confiscated, and the family was forced to leave.

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.