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Les professeurs de Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) réclament l'intervention d'un conciliateur pour faire débloquer les négociations contractuelles. Selon l'association des professeurs de MSVU, les pourparlers ont été rompus en décembre lorsque l'université a refusé de faire la moindre concession […]

Kwantlen University College administrators have announced they will use provincial legislation to override the faculty contract on class-size limits. It's the first post-secondary institution in British Columbia to attempt to use special powers granted by Gordon Campbell's Liberal government to […]

Acadia University and the faculty union are heading into a possible strike as union members voted overwhelmingly Jan. 28 to reject the latest contract offer from the university. Jim Sacouman, chief negotiator for Acadia University Faculty Association, said 95 per […]

Regarding "Eliminating Tuition Fees Would Make Manitoba a National Leader," (Bulletin, Dec. 2003). There is something that has to be thrashed out before the scholarly community in Canada comes to look ridiculously stupid. Errol Black and Robert Chernomas declare there […]

McInnis asserts that all the economic benefits "accrue to the individuals who receive (university) instruction and to the shareholders of the enterprises which employ them." The policy implication of this view would seem to be that the costs of instruction […]

Richard Nemesvari's response (Bulletin, Jan. 2004) to my comments on essays and plagiarism (Bulletin, Dec. 2003) is a clear indication that this is indeed a serious issue. However, in light of Professor Nemesvari's input to the discussion, I believe further […]

CAUT should be commended for its public statements about Turnitin.com. Students and faculty members share benefit from resisting technological fads. In an era where cutbacks and shrinking university budgets are the norms, educators and students should be wary of the […]

In several of my previous columns I have mentioned restructuring trends both in Canada and in the U.K. that are working to separate teaching and research functions in universities. The ultimate goal of people at the forefront of these movements […]

Victor Catano (Bulletin, Jan. 2004) reports the opinion of Ivor Crewe that public funding of universities was more acceptable 40 years ago when student numbers were so much lower than they are now. Professor Catano then offers his own perspective […]

I am surprised at the decision taken by CAUT Council at its November 2003 meeting to join Egale Canada, and that unanimously (Bulletin, Dec. 2003). "Group think" must have become rampant if a question such as the decision to join […]

Faculty at Mount Saint Vincent University have asked for a conciliator to help with contract negotiations. Mount Saint Vincent University Faculty Association says contract talks broke off in December when the university refused to budge on salaries. "We've had extremely […]

CAUT has established a committee that will investigate recent changes to McMaster University senate guidelines on what academic staff may say to the media. Concern arose last spring after press reports that the university senate adopted a policy prohibiting faculty […]