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Non content d’éliminer le Programme de contestation judiciaire, d’annuler les accords sur les garderies conclus avec les provinces et de sabrer dans le budget et les programmes de Condition féminine Canada, le gouvernement Harper, au travers de son nouveau budget, […]

Le corps professoral du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) a approuvé à l’unanimité le projet de diffusion publique et gratuite des articles savants de ses membres sur Internet. Selon Bish Sinyal, président de l’association des professeures et professeurs de cet […]

Selon David Seljak, président de l’association du personnel académique de l’Université St. Jerome, les mesures arbitraires prises par la direction de l’établissement ont porté atteinte au sentiment d’appartenance pour lequel la communauté universitaire était réputée. [Photo : Daniel Seljak] La […]

I want to applaud both the president and executive director of CAUT for their courageous editorial, “Universities Are Betraying Their Central Mission,” (Bulletin, March 2009) in connection with the banning of a poster during Israel Apartheid Week. I am concerned […]

In your Editorial in the March edition of the Bulletin, you argue free speech and freedom of expression were violated when two universities banned a poster showing an Israeli helicopter bombing a Palestinian child holding a teddy bear. You and […]

Your statement in the editorial “Univer­sities Are Betraying Their Central Mission” (Bulletin, March 2009) that “supporters of Israeli government policy feel that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism” is both an insult to the intelligence of your readership, who understand that […]

Re: “Universities Are Betraying Their Central Mission,” (CAUT Bulletin, March 2009). I am encouraged by the excellent editorial on academic freedom by Penni Stewart and James Turk, and grateful they have spoken out in support of basic principles, especially concerning […]

Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have voted unanimously to make their scholarly articles available to the public for free on the internet. “The vote is a signal to the world that we speak in a unified voice; that […]

CAUT executive director James Turk on Parliament Hill March 3 to meet MPs Marc Garneau, Jack Layton & Mike Savage over the 2009 federal budget that shortchanges research. CAUT continues to voice concerns over the Conservative government’s underfunding of research […]

This poster for Israeli Apartheid Week was taken down by staff at Carleton University & the University of Ottawa. Over the past few weeks, CAUT has become aware of a number of disturbing cases in which university administrations have limited […]

Few tenets of academic life are as sa­crosanct as the principle of produc­tivity as monitored by those masters of quality control, the jury of one’s peers. Yet, few principles can be as corrupting of what should lie at the heart […]

Lessons from Cambridge Just as fire regenerates a forest, so a great university regenerates human culture. We burn the rubbish, and create the space for new stuff to grow. Vice-chancellors echo ministers’ vision of the university as a research laboratory […]