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Victor Sim est décédé à 80 ans le mois dernier, après un combat contre le cancer. Victor Sim est décédé à Ottawa, le 7 décembre dernier, après une brève maladie. Vic a rejoint l’ACPPU en 1973 où il a occupé […]

     À son assemblée de novembre dernier, le Conseil de l’ACPPU a rendu hommage aux deux lauréates du prix Sarah-Shorten 2008, Mmes Audrey Kobayashi et Patricia Demers.     Cette distinction est accordée à des femmes qui ont fait preuve de leadership, ont servi […]

Academic staff at Ryerson University ratified a three-year agreement in November that gives a 3 per cent a year raise as well as additional adjustments, making the value of the salary increase closer to 4.3 per cent. The new agreement, […]

[File Photo] Delegates to the CAUT Council meeting in Ottawa last month voted unanimously to censure First Nations University of Canada for its ongoing failure to resolve the serious problems with the governance of the university. “It is with great […]

Although financial considerations can occasionally precipitate a strike, it generally takes some additional matter of principle to lead faculty to walk the picket line, writes Jim Clark. If my elderly mother ever heard I was going on strike, her immediate […]

You will have noticed higher ed­ucation policy played no role during the recent federal election. The platform of the winning Conservatives was silent on the subject. Why seems obvious…the election campaign was increasingly consum­ed by economic crisis and leadership issues. […]

Canada leads the world in entry-level academic salaries, says a report by researchers at the Boston College Center for International Higher Education. The Boston College researchers looked at academic earnings at four-year institutions across 15 countries and adjusted salaries based […]

The board of directors and administration of Acadia University face censure by CAUT in April unless they agree to reverse the firing of computer science professor Colin Wightman. Delegates to CAUT’s Council meeting Nov. 29 voted to give notice to […]

Hundreds of faculty and students at the University of Alberta have signed letters protesting the administration’s unilateral decision to shut down the Office of Human Rights. They want to know why the office, which for 18 years offered con­fidential advice […]

Walkout could begin this month Nova Scotia College of Art and Design technical and educational resource personnel could walk off the job later this month, after 97 per cent of the union’s membership voted in a strike referendum ballot Dec. […]

[Photo d'archives] Les délégués à l’assemblée du Conseil de l’ACPPU tenue à Ottawa le mois dernier ont adopté à l’unani­mité une motion imposant un blâme à l’Université des Premières nations du Canada (UPNC) en conséquence du défaut, de la part […]

Vous aurez remarqué que la po­litique d’enseignement supéri­eur ne figurait pas au rang des enjeux de la dernière campagne élec­torale fédérale. Le programme du Parti conservateur, reporté au pou­voir, ne comportait rien à ce sujet. Pourquoi? Cela semble évident : […]