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Chris Ferns was recognized by his peers across the country April 24 for his contribution in collective bargaining. This April, Chris Ferns, an English professor at Mount Saint Vincent University, was honoured with CAUT’s Donald C. Savage Award for his […]

CAUT turned a corner in April when council voted in favour of a bylaw amendment ensuring that marginalized groups will be represented in its governance structure. “The bylaw change marked a significant day in CAUT history — a day when […]

The Legitimacy of Quality Assurance in Higher Education: The Role of Public Authorities and Institutions Luc Weber & Katia Dolgova-Dreyer, eds. Cedex, France: Council of Europe Publishing; 2008; 158 pp; ISBN: 978-9-28716-237-3, paper $29 us. The Legitimacy of Quality Assurance […]

Rethinking Integration in the University Anthony Stewart. Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2009; 128 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55266-285-4, paper $17.95 ca. Documenting a black professor’s account of his own professional experience, Stewart’s study describes what it feels like to be a […]

The Forces Reshaping Higher Education in Ontario Ian D. Clark, Greg Moran, Michael L. Skolnik & David Trick. Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009; 250 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55339-265-1, cloth $85 ca; ISBN: 978-1-55339-238-5, paper $39.95 ca. The […]

Le gouvernement fédéral a présenté le 2 juin son projet de réforme du droit d’auteur attendu depuis longtemps, lequel propose de légaliser des pratiques aussi courantes que la copie d’un CD sur un ordinateur ou un lecteur MP3 pour un […]

L'Université Trent a pris le mois dernier une initiative qui est tout à son honneur, se réjouit mon collègue de cet établissement, David Newhouse. En effet, après des années de discussion et de réflexion, le sénat de cette université a […]

Deux nouveaux agents professionnels, Rosa Barker et Ro­bert Ramsay, ont joint les rangs des effectifs de l’ACPPU. Rosa est titulaire d’un baccalauréat ès arts spécialisé et d’une maî­trise ès arts de l’Université Trent et d’un doctorat en littérature anglaise de […]

Dans une décision qui aura des conséquences sérieuses pour le personnel académique du pays tout entier, la Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique a confirmé la décision d’un arbitre selon laquelle ce dernier n’avait pas compétence pour déterminer si la po­li­tique […]

If Ismet Ugursal were a regular reader of Times Higher Education, where my article was first published, he would know that the article was written partly tongue in cheek, but with a serious point. It is also clear from his […]

Current dogma states that all aspects of society should be subject to the principles and logic of marketization, and part of this dogma — which is gaining wider currency within higher education — is the belief that quality can be […]

CAUT begins censure process against the University of Manitoba & Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Tenured professor Larry Reynolds was dismissed from his post at the University of Manitoba’s faculty of medicine in 2008. The administrations of both the Univer­sity of […]