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L'Université York souscrit aux recommandations du comité en vue d'améliorer la liberté d'expression sur le campus. À l’issue d’une enquête de trois ans, un co­mité spécial de l’ACPPU vient de déposer son rap­port sur les présumées menaces à la liberté […]

The University of Windsor Faculty As­sociation and university nego­tiators resumed mediation talks Oct. 1, as strike action that began Sept. 17 continued. The strike by more than 1,000 full and part-time academic staff at Windsor follows three months of face-to-face […]

York University agrees to move forward on committee recommendations to improve free expression on campus. [Photo: York University] A CAUT ad hoc investigatory committee has completed its three-year investigation into allegations of threats to freedom of expression at York University […]

CAUT has given its 2008 J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship to University of Toronto PhD student Jonathan Crane. Jonathan Crane, a University of Toronto student completing a PhD in Modern Jewish Thought, has been chosen for this year’s Ste­wart Reid […]

BUFA president Bruce Forrest (left) & vice-president Dennis Oleson on the picket lines in Brandon. Academic staff at Brandon University were on the picket lines Sept. 29 after talks with the admin­istration broke down earlier in the month. Faculty association […]

Hundreds of Israeli academics have signed a petition calling on their government to support academic freedom in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip by removing blockades and checkpoints impeding access to institutions of higher learning. “It is clear there […]

Colin Wightman – Findings by a CAUT Committee of inquiry show that he was fired without cause. A CAUT investigatory committee has found that Acadia University acted inappropriately in firing Colin Wightman, a tenured full professor at the university. Wightman […]

Selection committee told its choices for president not acceptable. Unprecedented interference by the govern­ment of Newfoundland and Labrador in the year-long search for a new president of Memorial University is a threat to the institution’s autonomy and the academic freedom […]

Female students and academic staff continue to suffer inequities despite numerous reports documenting the problems and decades of policy, administrative and regulatory initiatives to resolve them. No­where is the under-representation and inequitable position of women more apparent than in science, […]

<img alt="[Photo: Alonso Nichols / TUFTS University]" title="Fernandez-Armesto.jpg" data-displaymode="Original" src="https://www-archive.caut.ca/images/default-source/bulletin/fernandez-armesto-jpgc6ef-6d38-9810-ff00005eecd3" /> [Photo: Alonso Nichols / TUFTS University] Write nothing but “Fuck off” on your English GCSE1 paper, according to recent press reports, and you will get 5 marks, provided you […]

A survey on research ethics among publicly-funded U.S. scientists has exposed higher than expected rates of misconduct and serious underreporting issues, sparking questions about the effectiveness of self-regulation. The survey, commissioned through the U.S. Office of Research Integrity, polled more […]

The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers [Jack H. Schuster & Martin J. Finkelstein. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 2008; 600 pp; ISBN: 978-0-8018-8283-8, cloth $45 US; ISBN: 978-0-8018-9103-8, paper $35 US] Callimachus (310–240 BCE), a […]