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Reconnaissant les progrès réalisés au Collège universitaire du Nord (CUN), les délégués à l’assemblée du Conseil de l’ACPPU tenue en novembre ont décidé de ne pas adopter de motion de censure contre l’établissement. « Les délégués se félicitent du sérieux […]

Jesse Greener, président de la section de l’Ontario de la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants, marque le décès de l’éducation postsecondaire abordable à Toronto le 30 octobre. C'est par centaines que les étudiants des universités et collèges de l’Ontario […]

Funeral Service — Jesse Greener, Ontario chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students, delivers a eulogy for affordable post-secondary education in Toronto Oct. 30 as mourners look on. Hundreds of university and college students from across Ontario gathered Oct. 30 […]

CAUT Council delegates in November recognized progress made at University College of the North and voted not to censure the institution. “Delegates were pleased that UCN and the Government of Manitoba responded seriously to CAUT’s concerns about the new institution,” […]

Voting in November, CAUT Council delegates endorsed the membership application of London-based Huron University College Faculty Association. “The faculty association represents 35 full-time academic staff members at Huron,” said CAUT executive director James Turk. “CAUT is delighted to welcome the […]

Academic staff at the University of Western Ontario have voted overwhelmingly to strike as contract negotiations with university officials continue. The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association’s contract expired June 30, 2006. “Our members have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the […]

Over the past four decades, the unusual pressures to which universities have been subjected have seen them undergo slow and subtle, but in the long run deeply subversive, changes. During her long tenure, Margaret Thatcher insisted that higher education’s main […]

I wrote in my October column about the importance of integrating newly-hired colleagues into academic life and our academic staff associations. These concerns are even more timely in the context of a rising average age of academic staff and with […]

<img alt=" Vindicated! Maher Arar with his wife Monia Mazigh, who led the campaign for her husband’s release. Photo: Bill Grimshaw/grimshawphoto.com." title ="maher-arar-web.jpg"data-displaymode="Original"src="/images/default-source/bulletin/maher-arar-web.jpg?sfvrsn=0"sfref="https://www-archive.caut.ca/images/default-source/bulletin/maher-arar-web-jpgc6ef-6d38-9810-ff00005eecd3" /> Vindicated! Maher Arar with his wife Monia Mazigh, who led the campaign for her husband’s release. […]

Greg Allain’s article “Challenges Facing New Academics” (Bulletin, October 2006) somewhat alleviates the depressive mood I have been in since my return to my regular duties from a productive and happy field season. In the field I felt elated, able […]

Academic staff in British Columbia are calling on the provincial government to suspend operations at Lansbridge University following revelations that owner Michael Lo was illegally offering degrees at a sister school in the province. The Vancouver Sun reported last month […]

University of Prince Edward Island biologist Larry Hale was elected to a two-year term as president of the CAUT Defence Fund during last month’s board of trustees meeting in Toronto. Hale takes over from Jean-Charles Cachon of Laurentian University, who […]