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Last November, CAUT issued a statement on possible military intervention in Iraq by the United States and its allies. We expressed our view that Canada should remain committed to a UN-based process in dealing with the regime in Iraq. We […]

L'association des professeurs de l'Université Mount Allison (MAFA) a fait une demande d'accréditation pour la nouvelle unité de négociation des universitaires contractuels. Le syndicat a organisé une campagne de signature de cartes de membres au printemps et attend maintenant la […]

The Canada Research Chairs program is one of the federal government's showcases to reverse the "brain drain" and to attract - according to the prime minister - "the best and the brightest" researchers to Canada. But one of its problems […]

Les professeurs auxiliaires de l'Université Queen's ont voté à 76 p.100 en faveur de l'adhésion à la Queen's University Faculty Association en tant qu'unité de négociation distincte. Richard Greenfield, président de l'association des professeurs, a dit que l'association était très […]

David Maurasse. New York: Routledge, 2001; 224 pp; hardcover $85 US., paper $20.95 US. In most cities in the United States and Canada, the local college or university is the largest employer. The role of the university and its relationship […]

Un groupe d'agents des griefs chevronnés des associations de professeurs est prêt à prendre la route pour offrir l'atelier sur le règlement des griefs de l'ACPPU. Pendant une fin de semaine en mars, Rick McGaw (Nouveau-Brunswick), Bernice Schrank (Memorial), Steven […]

Lloyd H. Elliott. Washington: National Heritage Books, 2001; 338 pp; hardcover $29.95 US. As a young university administrator, Lloyd Elliott got his first glimpse of how the business and academic communities differ in practice and philosophy when he joined the […]

Hidden Academics: Contract Faculty in Canadian Universities Indhu Rajagopal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002; 330 pp; hardcover $65 CA., paper $27.50 CA. I became involved in advocacy work on behalf of part-time faculty in 1999 after working as a […]

Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Propert Corynne McSherry. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press, 2001; 275 pp; hardcover $29.95 US. Barely 15 years after some perceptive scholars sounded the alarm on the challenges posed by […]

Mount Allison Faculty Association has applied to certify a new bargaining unit of contract academic staff. The union began collecting signatures this spring, and is now waiting for a response from the New Brunswick Industrial Relations Board. The new unit […]

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, […]