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Inadequate legal protection for privacy in the workplace is a threat to academic freedom, privacy-law experts Valerie Steeves and Eugene Oscapella warned CAUT delegates in a special session at CAUT's November Council meeting. Steeves, who teaches law at Carleton, and […]

Une forte majorité de Canadiens souhaitent que le gouvernement fédéral accorde la priorité au renouvellement des dépenses relatives aux programmes sociaux, d'après un sondage d'opinion mené pour le compte de l'ACPPU. D'après le sondage, six Canadiens sur dix affirment que […]

As universities become increasingly dependent on private donations, some donors are taking the opportunity to try to shape university policy and intrude on academic freedom, says CAUT executive director James Turk. In a speech delivered Oct. 30 at an Israel […]

Les États-Unis demandent au Canada et à d'autres membres de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce de prendre des engagements nouveaux et majeurs qui intégreraient entièrement des services de l'enseignement postsecondaire à l'Accord général sur le commerce des services. Dans un document […]

Members of Brandon University Faculty Association are getting a 9% wage increase over three years after ratifying a collective agreement Nov. 18. Other provisions include the elimination of increment thresholds, an annual one step increase to existing floors and ceilings […]

Dans le cadre d'une journée de lobby national organisée par l'ACPPU et la Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université, plus de 60 professeurs et universitaires de tout le pays ont demandé au gouvernement fédéral d'accroître le financement de l'enseignement […]

Following a successful strike vote, members of the University of Winnipeg Faculty Association voted recently to ratify a new five-year collective agreement. In each of the first two years the agreement provides scale increases of $2,000 and structural adjustments and […]

Michael O. West. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002; 344 pp; hardcover $49.95 US., paper $22.95 US. Tracing their quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence, Michael West shows how some […]

J. Douglas Willms, ed. Edmonton, Alberta: University of Alberta Press, 2002; 464 pp; paper $34.95 CA. All children in Canada live with risk. They are susceptible to disease and injury, and as they grow and learn they must face numerous […]

Manjunath Pendakur & Roma Harris, eds. Aurora, Ontario: Garamond Press, 2002; 442 pp; paper $34.95 CA. With the capacity for the almost instant transfer of digital information across and beyond our planet, commonly held notions of distance and speed, as […]

Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997 Steve Hewitt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002; 304 pp; hardcover $30 CA. Spying 101 is a very interesting book about the security service of the RCMP and its operations […]

No Place to Learn: Why Universities Aren't Working Tom Pocklington & Allan Tupper. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002; 220 pp; hardcover $24.95 CA. With Canadian universities expecting to hire more than 20,000 new professors by the end of […]