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Peter Simpson est entré en fonctions à l’ACPPU à la mi-juillet à titre de nouveau directeur général adjoint. Auparavant, M. Simpson était professeur adjoint de philosophie à l’Université Laurentienne, à Sudbury (Ontario), où il assumait également la présidence de l’association […]

Peter Simpson began his work as CAUT’s newest assistant executive director in mid-July. Prior to joining CAUT, Simpson was an assistant professor of philosophy at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario and served as president of the Laurentian University Faculty Association. […]

Pendant mes vacances d’été, j’ai relu l’anthologie The Dissenting Academy, publiée sous la direction de Theodore Roszak et dans laquelle est paru pour la première fois le célèbre essai de Noam Chomsky, La responsabilité des intellectuels. Cette lecture m’a amenée […]

Leading clinical faculty from medical schools across Canada met at CAUT in late August for the inauguration of CAUT’s Clinical Faculty Committee. Established by CAUT’s executive to advise on issues affecting clinical faculty, the new committee is focusing on challenges […]

Benoît Melançon, réalisateur. Montréal : Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2005; 128 p.; ISBN : 2-7606-1980-X, non défini 34,95 $ can Nous sommes entourés de livres savants. Les encyclopédies, les dictionnaires, les manuels sont en effet partout, des librairies […]

The First Nations University of Canada (FNUC) is in a deepening crisis that threatens the future of the institution. Trouble began in mid-February when the chair of the board of governors, Morley Watson, suspended three senior administrators indefinitely and replaced […]

Bill C-60 favours the rights-owners’ view of copyright, but for the education & library sectors it still holds a measure of promise. Canada’s slow moving copyright reform process took a lurch forward over the summer with the first reading of […]

Two Brandon University staff members have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a deadly cancer caused by asbestos exposure. One of the affected individuals is a faculty member and the other is a retired maintenance engineer. Built in the 1960s, the university’s […]

During my summer vacation I reread The Dissenting Academy, edited by Theodore Roszak. This book contains the famous essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," by Noam Chomsky, first published in this book. It got me thinking about teaching and learning. At […]

Gilles Paquet, the affable president of the Royal Society of Canada, turned up a short while ago in Guelph for a rare regional meeting of the society, and in his hortatory comments stressed the immense cultural good the learned fellows […]

University of Manitoba professor Stéphane McLachlan and his doctoral student Ian Mauro have asked CAUT for assistance in releasing their research video on genetically modified crops. Since 2002 the University of Manitoba has effectively blocked the release of "Seeds of […]

A CAUT report released last month shines new light on the financial woes facing universities and colleges and calls on the provinces and Ottawa to negotiate a new funding arrangement for post-secondary education. "Financing Canada’s universities and colleges: How Ottawa […]