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A major survey of faculty across the country has been launched by CAUT. The faculty work experience survey focuses on workload and related issues of job satisfac­tion, propensity for job change, and opportunity for research, among other measures. CAUT president […]

Le plus gros déficit du Canada se trouve dans l’argent que le pays ne consacre plus à l’éducation et à la recherche. L'ACPPU qualifie le budget fédé­ral du 4 mars d’« énorme déception » en ce qui concerne l’éducation postsecondaire, […]

No to Navitas — Carrie Dawson, president-elect of Dalhousie Faculty Association, & Terry Mitchell, the association’s president, distributed an open letter to the university community denouncing the Navitas deal. [Photo: David Tindall] A for-profit education corporation is facing stiff opposition […]

Saving Academic Freedom Cary Nelson. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2010; 288 pp; ISBN: 978-0-81475-859-5, cloth $27.95 US. By Len Findlay Is academic freedom in need of “saving” in the self-styled land of the free, home to “freedom […]

Completing College at America’s Public Universities William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos & Michael S. McPherson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009; 392 pp; ISBN: 978-0-69113-748-3, cloth $27.95 US. Long revered for their dedication to equal opportunity and affordability, public […]

Faced with a $4.7 billion budget deficit, the Alberta government is freezing the operating grants for post-secondary institutions after years of steadily increasing investment. The freeze is part of a 6 per cent overall cut for the province’s advanced education […]

Librarians at McMaster University have formed an association and decided to unionize. The McMaster University Acad­emic Librarians Association filed an application for certification with the Ontario Labour Relations Board on Feb. 10. The board supervised a secret ballot election the […]

Nancy Olivieri a été nommée lauréate du prix 2009 “Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award” décerné par l'American Association for the Advancement of Science. [Photo : Karras Photography/AAAS] L'American Association for the Advance­ment of Science (AAAS) a décerné son prestigieux prix […]

L'éducation postsecondaire est une force motrice des écono­mies nationales, selon la professeure Susan Robertson de l’université britannique de Bristol qui était l’oratrice principale de la conférence sur la reddition de comptes et la qualité dans les études postsecon­daires, organisée en […]

Dans son budget 2010, le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique a mis en application son intention déjà annoncée de geler, pendant au moins trois ans, les crédits alloués aux établissements postsecondaires publics et aux programmes d’aide financière aux étudiants. Si, pour […]

Ottawa copyright lawyer David Fewer finds search giant Google¹s ambition to build digital libraries seriously flawed. CAUT has filed a brief with the U.S. District Court in New York, raising several objections to a settlement reached late last year in […]

CAUT report highlights employment & earnings of female, First Nations & visible minority professors. Despite longstanding employment equity policies and practices, women and First Nations continue to be under­-represented in Canadian higher edu­cation, and along with visible minorities are earning […]