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CAUT is exploring a closer working relationship with the American Association of University Professors. CAUT president Victor Catano and executive director James Turk met with their AAUP counterparts in Washington last month to discuss ways the two organizations could work […]

Le partenariat annoncé le mois dernier entre Microsoft Canada et l'Université de Waterloo a déchaîné les critiques de la part de la population étudiante et du corps professoral. Dans une lettre adressée au recteur de l'université David Johnston, la Faculty […]

CAUT's new task force on academic freedom for faculty at university-affiliated health care institutions held its inaugural meeting in Ottawa at the end of August. Task force chair, Dr. Philip Welch, characterized the task force's goal as trying to assure […]

Pour répliquer aux critiques à l'égard du système canadien d'octroi des subventions de recherche au moyen de l'évaluation par les pairs, l'ACPPU a mis sur pied un groupe de travail sur l'évaluation par les pairs que présidera le président sortant, […]

Nearly 170,000 academically qualified high school students in the United States will be unable to attend a post-secondary institution this year because they cannot afford to so, according to a report prepared by a government advisory body. In Empty Promises: […]

Blue Lake, étudiant au doctorat à l'Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve, est le récipiendaire de la Bourse commémorative J.H. Stewart Reid de l'ACPPU pour 2002-2003. M. Lake, qui étudie à temps plein à la faculté de médecine, cherche le fondement biologique […]

The article, "Quebec's Bill 84 to Allow Same-Sex Civil Unions" (Bulletin, June 2002), accurately describes Project Interaction's harassment campaign against us. It was undertaken because we agreed to act as expert witnesses in the same-sex marriage case in defence of […]

Le nouveau groupe de travail de l'ACPPU sur la liberté universitaire des professeurs travaillant dans des établissements de soins de santé affiliés à une université a tenu sa première réunion à Ottawa à la fin du mois d'août. Le président […]

An international human rights group is warning that the U.S. government's investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks has been marred by arbitrary detentions, due process violations and secret arrests. In a 95-page report, Presumption of Guilt: Human Rights Abuses of […]

Maureen Shaw, past-president of the College Institute Educators' Association of British Columbia, was elected president of the National Union of the Canadian Association of University Teachers at the NUCAUT convention in Vancouver in June. Brian E. Brown (Windsor) was elected […]

The University of California has accepted a $40 million settlement from Andersen Worldwide, SC, one of the defendants in a class action suit launched by investors who lost billions in the high-profile meltdown of Enron Corporation. "We regard this settlement […]

On Aug. 30 the B.C. government quietly posted a discussion paper on a new private training policy framework on its website. Using the language of deregulation and cutting red tape, that are the hallmarks of the B.C. Liberal government, the […]