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Position sur les CRCÀ son assemblée de mai 2003, le Conseil de l'ACPPU a adopté la résolution suivante : Que l'ACPPU exprime son appui à l'égard du mémoire que huit professeures ont soumis à la Commission canadienne des droits de […]

Au cours de la dernière décennie, la privatisation de l'éducation s'est accentuée dans les Amériques, entraînant la détérioration de la qualité dans les écoles publiques, la réduction de l'accès pour les citoyens à faible revenu et l'utilisation des deniers publics […]

Skyrocketing tuition fees are keeping more and more qualified Canadians away from universities and colleges and are affecting the career choices of those that do go, concluded a national forum held in Ottawa last month. The forum, organized by the […]

Queen's adjunct-ones have voted 76 per cent in favour of joining Queen's University Faculty Association as a separate bargaining unit. Richard Greenfield, president of the faculty association, said the association is "thrilled" to see such a "clear and positive endorsement" […]

According to history professor John Jeffries Martin, "it simply takes more time to research and prepare a manuscript on Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War or the Umayyad dynasty of the early Islamic world than one on Alfred Hitchcock or John […]

On Dec. 11, 2002 CAUT wrote to Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham raising concerns over the treatment of Canadian citizens caught up in the U.S. National Security Entry-Exit Registration System. NSEERS, which passed into law on Sept. 11, 2002, requires […]

The Simon Fraser Student Society brought together 200 faculty members and students from across Canada in April for a major conference on academic freedom and the public interest. In his opening speech, CAUT executive director James Turk told delegates that […]

Full-time and contract academic staff at Augustana University College voted unanimously to certify in a representation vote conducted this month by the Alberta Labour Relations Board. "Obviously we're extremely pleased by the count," said AUC Faculty Association president Gerhard Lotz, […]

McMaster University's senate has approved a controversial policy banning faculty members from making reference to their positions at the university if they express opinions that are "unrelated to (their) area of academic and professional expertise." "This is a serious threat […]

An experienced group of faculty association grievance officers is ready to take CAUT's Grievance Handling Workshop on the road. In March, Rick McGaw (New Brunswick), Bernice Schrank (Memorial), Steven Stack (Wilfrid Laurier) and Alistair Tilson (Carleton) completed a weekend training […]

Nova Scotia's record in post-secondary education has dropped it to last place in the latest annual provincial ranking published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The CCPA report "Missing Pieces: An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-secondary Education" judges the […]

A coalition of community and international development groups has launched a campaign to warn Canadians about the dangers posed by the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) to medicare. Governments of the Americas, with the exception of Cuba, are […]