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Following seven months of on-again, off-again talks, part-time faculty at Acadia University have accepted their first contract with the university. The one-year agreement includes significant wage increases, access to laptop computers, recognition of past service in hiring decisions, language on […]

Canada's post-secondary institutions are in real trouble due to underfunding on the part of both the federal and provincial governments, the consequences of which faculty and librarians have no difficulty seeing. The number of university and college teachers has declined […]

The president of the University of Waterloo has apologized over the way his administration recently handled a controversial donation from Microsoft Canada. President David Johnston admitted that the deal reached with Microsoft should have been approved by the university's senate. […]

You are 19 years old. Four years ago, you and your family fled the civil war in your home country, after your uncle and two cousins were murdered by the paramilitaries. Through a combination of resourcefulness, luck and the kindness […]

More than 200 contract academic staff activists from across North America gathered in Montreal in October for the fifth conference of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor. Representatives of faculty associations and unions from nine provinces, 15 states and Mexico […]

An arbitrator's decision finally ended Brock University's contract dispute with its faculty and librarians over salary increases. A salary reopener provision in the current three-year agreement included a mediation/arbitration mechanism to determine salaries for 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. Negotiators for Brock […]

Violence against women takes many forms, but men can take the first step in acknowledging their part in ending violence against women, by wearing a white ribbon in November. The White Ribbon Campaign is entering its 11th year and continues […]

Trustees representing the 31 member associations and 14,000 academics met in October for the annual general meeting of the CAUT Defence Fund. The trustees, who are responsible for administering a fund with assets in excess of $13 million, spent considerable […]

CAUT has joined the North American Alliance for Fair Employment, a network of grassroots organizations, labor unions, advocates, and academics organized to link those demanding fairness for contingent workers. NAFFE is a coalition of organizations across a broad range of […]

Over the past 24 years there have been dramatic changes in the funding of Canadian universities. In 1978, government funding accounted for 84 per cent of Canadian universities' operating budgets. By 2002, that funding had declined to about 60 per […]

La ligne de partage au Moyen-Orient, complexe et acrimonieuse, s'étend aux campus universitaires d'Amérique du Nord, soulevant de graves questions au sujet de la liberté universitaire et de la liberté d'expression. Des manifestants pro-palestiniens en colère ont empêché l'ancien premier […]

Dès lors qu'il a annoncé la date de son départ, Jean Chrétien a cherché à laisser sa marque en tant que premier ministre. De nombreuses grosses promesses circulaient à la veille du discours du Trône. Si elles sont mises en […]