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Crandall University (formerly known as Atlantic Baptist University) in Moncton has been added to CAUT’s list of univer­sities and colleges that have a faith or ideological test as a condition of employment. The action follows a detailed inquiry by an […]

A report into Nova Scotia’s post-secon­dary system is proposing sweeping changes and raising the ire of students. Citing government fiscal restraint and declining enrolment, the report prepared by former Bank of Montreal executive Tim O’Neill calls for cost-containment and deregulation […]

Achievements Rewarded — Carole Estabrooks and Paul Hayes celebrate their awards with Walter Dixon (centre), president of the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations, at a banquet in Edmonton Sept. 16. Two professors have been chosen by the 4,000+ member Confederation […]

In July, Conservative MP Maxime Bernier claimed that when he was industry minister during the last census in 2006, he received about 1,000 complaints a day during the census taking. But documents obtained by CAUT through an access to information […]

CAUT member associations have been very successful in organizing contract academic staff and this has resulted in better pay and work conditions. But contract academics still face challenges in making the remuneration leap. And as the post-secondary sector increases the […]

Stem cells and “STEM sells” are nearly synonymous these days. Both stand for the belief that our future health and wealth will emerge from high-tech research. No wonder the humanities and social sciences are struggling to measure up to the […]

Les chercheurs et les ingénieurs des univer­sités canadiennes s’interrogent de plus en plus sé­ri­eusement sur l’efficacité du Programme de subventions à la décou­verte du Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG), compte tenu du taux […]

Les Canadiens et leurs gouvernements sont unanimes à reconnaître que l’éducation postsecon­daire devrait être accessible à tous les étudiants qualifiés. Mais l’accès quasi universel, est-ce là un objectif réaliste dans le contexte des po­litiques de droits de scolarité pra­ti­quées actuellement […]

More than 300 organizations have joined the call for the Harper government to reinstate the manda­tory long-form census since the federal government announced it would be replaced by a voluntary survey. “Stakeholders ranging from the business community, to university researchers […]

Questions of epistemology (“Trent Leads in Recognition of Indigenous Knowledge,” CAUT Bulletin, June 2010) should not be decided politically or by university administrations (whose judgement is suspect in so many areas), but rather by academics properly trained in academic disciplines […]

Jim Clark is right to say that academics should be concerned with the nature of knowledge. And, indeed, the Trent University vision statement about which I wrote was debated and adopted by academics, whom I assume were “properly trained in […]

Summer, the season of madcap antics, went wild this year with Industry Minister Tony Clement’s quiet announcement, one Satur­day afternoon in June, that the federal government was dropping the mandatory long-form census in favour of a voluntary survey. So much […]