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A free guide to serving on peer review committees is now available to academic staff. What is Fair? Q&A on Procedures and Standards in Peer Review, developed by CAUT’s Academic freedom & Tenure Committee, addresses the primary aspects of proper […]

Kevin Walby, a doctoral student in sociology at Carleton University, has been awarded CAUT’s Stewart Reid fellowship. Walby graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor of arts (Hons), earned a post-graduate sociology degree from the University of Victoria, […]

Assessment and impact: these are the new watchwords in higher education. We have assessment indicators in the social sciences, the physical sciences and our business and law schools, which ask: “What does this research do? What footprint does it leave? […]

I attended a conference last year “Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times” commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the University in Exile at the New School for Social Research in New York. During the conference it […]

La présidente nationale de la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants, Katherine Giroux-Bougard, prévient que l'éducation supérieure devient de plus en plus hors de la portée de nombreuses familles canadiennes. Taux de chômage sans précédent, hausse des droits de scolarité […]

Une préoccupation globale La privatisation, la diversification et la précarisation sont trois tendances qui bouleversent actuellement le secteur de l’éducation supé­rieure à l’échelle mondiale. Voilà le constat qu’ont dressé les interve­nants à la Conférence mondiale de l’UNESCO sur l’enseignement supérieur […]

Une mine d'amiante à Thetford Mines (Québec), importante source mondiale de production d'amiante chrysotile. [Photo : Pierre Obendrauf, The Gazette (Montreal)] Les médecins du Canada appellent le gouvernement fédéral à abandonner son soutien à l’indus­trie de l’amiante. Lors de l’assemblée […]

L'ACPPU a annoncé la création d’une commission d’enquête sur les événements entourant la te­nue, cet été, d’une conférence con­troversée sur les moyes de progresser vers la paix au Moyen-Orient. Coparrainée par les universités Queen’s et York dans le cadre des […]

Lakehead University has switched to Google for its e-mail, amid warnings about the way internet companies use personal data. [File Photo] An arbitrator has found that Lakehead Uni­versity did not violate a collective bargaining agreement when it replaced its campus […]

The problem as I see it is that as scientists we have accepted wholeheartedly a functionalist paradigm for conceptualizing, explaining and validating the research enterprise. The norms associated with this perception of research circulate broadly beyond the research enterprise and […]

For the past six months CAUT has been at the forefront of a campaign to raise awareness of the many problematic aspects of the federal government’s research agenda. Partly this is about money. In the recent federal budget, not only […]

Caut Council delegates meeting in Ottawa April 24 voted unanimously to create a national benefits trust to provide cost effective and comprehensive benefit coverage for academic staff association members and their families. “CAUT member associations can now negotiate with their […]