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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 […]

A poll released this month by CAUT strongly suggests Canadians are worried that rising tuition fees are preventing qualified high school graduates from getting a university or college education. The poll reports that more than seven out of 10 Canadians […]

Algoma's part-time faculty and sessional instructors have voted unanimously to join the Algoma University College Faculty Association as a separate bargaining unit. Karl Jirgens, president of AUCFA, said the association was heartened by the solid recognition it received from the […]

In the message from the president in the February edition of the Bulletin "CAUT Issues Statement on Closure of Palestinian Universities," Victor Catano speaks of the "punitive closures of schools ... as reprisal for terrorist incidents elsewhere." This is far […]

Thanks to professor John Jeffries Martin for articulating what many of us knew all along - that the academic rank of associate professor is redundant and should be abolished (Commentary, Bulletin, March 2003). While probationary untenured status is undoubtedly justified, […]

In a highly controversial setting, Ontario's Progressive Conservative government delivered a pre-election budget on March 27. Refusing to reconvene the legislature, Premier Ernie Eves arranged for the budget to be presented at a Brampton auto parts plant owned by a […]

Eight faculty members are asking the Canadian Human Rights Commission to conduct a special inquiry into allegations the Canada Research Chairs program discriminates against academics who are members of the protected groups set out in the Canadian Human Rights Act. […]

There were very few income tax changes proposed in the Dec. 10, 2001 federal budget. However, on Dec. 20, 2002, the Department of Finance released a sizable quantity of draft legislation effective for the 2002 taxation year. The following changes […]

An alliance of organizations representing booksellers, librarians, academics and journalists, led by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression welcomed the introduction in March of federal legislation that would remove a threat to the privacy of bookstore customers and library […]

CAUT has joined a large number of organizations questioning the federal government's proposed security legislation - Bill C-17, the Public Security Act. In an appearance before a special Parliamentary Committee established to examine Bill C-17, CAUT executive director James Turk […]

The United Nations agency charged with monitoring and upholding international labour standards has blasted the government of British Columbia for violating basic labour rights. In a decision released March 27, highly critical of the government, the International Labour Organization says […]

Donald Philip Verene. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2002; 112 pp; hardcover $18.95 US. In The Art of Humane Education, Donald Phillip Verene presents a new statement of the classical and humanist ideals that he believes should guide education […]