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Cindy Oliver (à droite), présidente du comité du personnel universitaire contractuel de l’ACPPU, a été l’élément moteur du projet de résolution de l’ACPPU. On la voit ici au Congrès mondial de l’Internationale de l’Éducation avec Margaret Flomo, présidente de l’association […]

L’ACPPU sera l’hôte de la première conférence sur l’enseignement postsecondaire autochtone, qui aura lieu à Winnipeg du 1er au 3 février 2008. Cette rencontre portera principalement sur les défis des professeurs autochtones et les façons de les relever. Les conférenciers […]

June 2007 — APBU general staff member Kevin Doherty on the picket line after union rejects global offer from Bishop’s. [Photo: Jim Benson, Bishop's University] The three bargaining units of the Association of Professors of Bishop’s University have reached settlements […]

Ontario government appoints Kevin Whitaker To review Colleges Collective Bargaining Act. Ontario’s governing Liberals are proposing to extend collective bargaining rights to part-time college workers if reelected. The government has appointed Kevin Whitaker, who chairs the Ontario Labour Relations Board, […]

Whenever I feel skeptical, as I occasionally do, about whether I can truly have an impact on my students’ educational experience, I need only reflect on my own undergraduate experience and the teacher who changed my life. I then feel […]

CAUT will host its first conference on aboriginal post-secondary education in Winnipeg, Feb.1-3, 2008. The conference will focus on challenges faced by aboriginal educators and on ways of responding to those challenges. Speakers will address an array of issues, including […]

The June 8 Supreme Court ruling that grants Charter of Rights protection to collective bargaining was an important decision, so it was good to see it covered on page one of the June issue of the Bulletin. The Supreme Court’s […]

Throughout the summer major media, university presidents and other individuals have denounced what they described as the decision of the University and College Union (CAUT’s counterpart in the UK) to boycott Israeli universities. There has been no such decision by […]

I was hoping to see in your last edition some discussion of the British academic boycott of Israeli universities. The key issue here is the protection of academic freedom, which is central to your organization. This boycott by academics in […]

Britain’s University and College Union has moved to implement an academic boycott of Israeli universities, and some university presidents in this country have already issued pronouncements condemning such a boycott. However, this is a serious issue deserving proper consideration by […]

CAUT is questioning a report that criticizes tuition freezes as an inefficient way of making post-secondary education more accessible. The report by the U.S.-based Educational Policy Institute also restates earlier arguments it has made in favour of higher tuition fees […]

CAUT’s visiting scholar for 2007-2008 is Samuel Trosow shown here at the CAUT office in August 2007. Samuel Trosow, an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario who holds dual academic appointments in the faculties of law and information […]