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Kent Weaver, directeur de l'exploitation des systèmes au sein des services des technologies de l'information à la bibliothèque de l'Université de Toronto, est le lauréat 2012 du Prix des bibliothécaires pour services émérites de l'ACPPU. Pendant sa longue et insigne […]

Une menace de grève pèse sur l’Université St. Francis Xavier. Les 23 et les 24 janvier prochains, l’association des professeurs (StFXAUT) et les administrateurs de l’Université St. Francis Xavier poursuivront leurs négociations dans un ultime effort pour éviter une grève […]

Sur cette photo d'archives du 25 novembre 2011, Jon Thompson prend la parole, à titre de conférencier invité, devant les délégués à l'assemblée du Conseil de l'ACPPU. Jon Thompson a été réélu à la présidence de la Fondation Harry-Crowe pour […]

Rien à faire. La controverse entourant depuis quelques années un établissement d’enseignement privé ayant conclu un partenariat avec l’Université du Manitoba à Winnipeg pour accueillir des étudiants internationaux et être leur « porte d’entrée » à cette université, ne s’éteint pas. Depuis […]

A view of the Birks Reading Room at McGill University. CAUT withdrew a resolution Nov. 24 calling for censure of the McGill administration over concerns raised by the university’s academic librarians. [Julia Manzerova/Flickr] As a result of positive responses from […]

An essay on happiness, productivity & the death of humanities education By Ron Srigley I am not happy these days. I teach in the humanities at a Canadian uni­versity. And — unlike my more Protestant-minded, less eudemonistical colleagues — I […]

The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada recently reported that international student enrolment at Canadian universities was up 12 per cent this past fall over last year, adding that “In the globally competitive international education sector, (Canada) is an […]

More than half of Canadians say they would be willing to pay more taxes to allow governments to increase post-secondary education funding, according to the latest poll commissioned by CAUT. The attitude towards paying higher taxes to fund universities and […]

Sessional instructors at the University of Lethbridge will see significant increases in their minimum stipend following a two year contract negotiated between the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association (ULFA) and the employer. In the first year, effective May 1, 2012, […]

CAUT grew a little bigger last month when council delegates voted to accept the Carleton University Postdoctoral Association into membership. CUPA, with 70–80 postdoctoral fellows, is CAUT’s 74th member local. “Postdocs are academic staff to whom we extend a warm […]

CAUT unveiled a national campaign last month exposing the threats to Canada’s cultural institutions and historic sites and proposing what must be done to reverse the damage. The Canada’s Past Matters campaign will highlight how federal funding cuts and policy […]

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government narrowly passed legislation Dec. 12 that forces all labour organizations to hand over detailed information on their finances, spending and activities for posting on a public website. C-377, the private member’s bill introduced by […]