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The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation is holding a series of country-wide public consultations on the future of its bursary program. "As we begin the second half of our ten-year mandate, we think it's important to gather the opinions of Canadians […]

Both of my grandfathers immigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1890s when they were young boys of nine and 10 years old. They were sent by their families in Italy and Eastern Europe to find a better life in the U.S. […]

Student groups in Manitoba and Ontario found themselves praising their provincial governments last month. In Manitoba, post-secondary students were ecstatic the provincial NDP government is continuing the tuition freeze for another year. In his budget released in April, Finance Minister […]

Delegates to CAUT Council voted overwhelmingly to express criticism of York University for its failure to provide prompt legal assistance to a political scientist at the university served with a libel notice by an Ontario cabinet minister. After coverage in […]

CAUT has appointed Cynthia Wagner to the position of executive assistant, communications and information. Cynthia has a bachelor degree in political science and Spanish from the University of New Brunswick, and prior to joining CAUT worked for the Canadian Council […]

UBC's Clinical Faculty Association Joins CAUT Clinical teachers in the faculty of medicine at the University of British Columbia are the newest members to join CAUT. The University Clinical Faculty Association, which represents UBC's physician community in the faculty of […]

The works of Canadian journalists Ann Dowsett Johnston and Eric Warwaruk have earned them the CAUT Awards for Excellence in Post-Secondary Education Journalism this year. The prizes, worth $500 each, recognize the year's best reporting of key issues affecting the […]

The winter term saw a flurry of organizing activity on Canadian campuses. Four faculty associations held successful certification drives and are now waiting for labour board processes to unfold. St. Francis Xavier The St. Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers […]

Rising tuition fees have led to an explosion in student debt in recent years, according to a new study released in April by Statistics Canada. On average, undergraduates reporting student debt owed about $20,000 in 2000 and college graduates owed […]

La Fondation canadienne des bourses d'études du millénaire tient une série de consultations publiques à l'échelle du pays sur l'avenir de son programme de bourses. " Au moment où nous entrons dans la seconde moitié de notre mandat de dix […]

Sam Bronfman, à qui l'on de mandait ce qu'il croyait être la plus grande invention des temps modernes, a eu cette réponse désormais passée à l'histoire : " l'intérêt composé. " Nul doute que M. Bronfman, s'il avait eu le […]

Près de quatre Canadiens sur dix se disent très préoccupés par le coût des frais de scolarité des universités et des collèges, selon les résultats d'un important sondage mené à l'échelle nationale. Dans l'Atlantique Canada, plus de la moitié des […]