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My former graduate student “Jason” was an excellent researcher with outstanding acade­mic career prospects. But just out of the doctoral trenches Jason decided he preferred teaching to research. Mentoring the next generation of global citizens was his passion. Recently though, […]

Mackenzie building on the campus of the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. [Kingstonist.com/FLICKR] CAUT has created an independent commission on the governance of the Royal Military College of Canada. The distinguished members of the commission are Robin Boadway, the […]

Organized labour in Canada is under unprecedented attack. This attack comes through the economic policies of right-wing, neo­liberal governments that punish working Canadians in favour of corporations and the private sector. It also comes through legislative changes that undermine individual […]

In the latest blow to Access Copyright, legal counsel for the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) has advised against entering into a license agreement with the agency. For many years educational institutions paid Access Copyright for the right to […]

The Carleton University Academic Staff Association (CUASA) is calling on university adminis­trators to halt a harmful pattern of closed negotiations between the school and private donors and corporations. In a strongly-worded letter to Carleton’s board of governors on Aug. 20, […]

Five months of talks included the threat of a union strike. Nipissing University Faculty Association says it has ironed out a new collective agreement with university administrators for the 180 members of the full-time academic staff bargaining unit. The agreement […]

Professor Emeritus Willard Finlay Allen, who served as CAUT pre­sident in 1969–1970, and enjoyed a distinguished aca­demic career in chemistry and adminis­tra­tion at the University of Alberta for 36 years, died July 25. He was 88. Born May 15, 1924, […]

Stefan Collini. London, UK: Penguin, 2012; 240 pp; ISBN: 978-1-84614-482-1, paper $32 CAD. Reviewed by Len Findlay This collection of new and previously published material by a leading British intellectual historian and literary critic is by turns informative, entertaining, inspiring […]

L’édifice Mackenzie sur le campus du Collège militaire royal à Kingston (Ontario). [Kingstonist.com/FLICKR] L'ACPPU a créé une commission indépendante sur la gouvernance du Collège militaire royal du Canada (CMRC). La commission est composée des trois éminents membres suivants : Robin Boadway, […]

Le mouvement syndical canadien essuie une volée d’attaques sans précédent. Il fait les frais des politiques économiques de gouvernements néolibéraux de droite qui favorisent les entreprises et le secteur privé au détriment des travailleurs canadiens. Il est également victime des […]

Un autre coup dur a été porté à Access Copyright. Le service juridique de l’Association des collèges communautaires du Canada (ACCC) a conseillé aux établissements membres de ne pas con­clure de contrat de licence avec l’agence. Depuis de nombreuses années, […]

L'Association du personnel académique de l’Université Carleton presse l’administration de l’uni­versité de mettre un frein à sa pratique néfaste de négociations à huis clos avec des donateurs privés. Dans une lettre adressée au con­seil des gouverneurs de l’université le 20 août, […]