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La FQPPU constate que l'esprit de la Politique québécoise de la science et de l'innovation réduit la fonction de l'université à un rouage dans une mécanique visant de plus en plus l'exploitation du savoir. Le rôle des professeurs est assimilé […]

Le projet de zone de libre-échange des Amériques pourrait menacer l'éducation publique. Voilà la conclusion qu'ont entendu les délégués à un forum organisé dans le cadre du Sommet des peuples le mois dernier, à Québec, en marge du Sommet officiel […]

On April 1, 2001, Dalton Camp wrote in the Toronto Star: "On the eve of the Summit of the Americas, at Quebec, there is also to be the alternative Peoples' Summit. The Summit of the Americas is, presumably, about trade, […]

More than 60 university professors and academic staff from across Canada called on Ottawa to boost funding for post-secondary education as part of a one-day national lobby day organized by CAUT and the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université […]

Where do you go to network, read about and dialogue on issues affecting women? On March 21, CTV's morning show, Canada AM reported: "it's official: more women than men use the Internet." Statistics Canada does not appear to agree. Its […]

The vast majority of Canadian parents want their children to get a college or university education, but most families have been unable to save the money needed for post-secondary schooling, concludes a new report from Statistics Canada. The parents of […]

Acadia University Faculty Association submitted its application for certification of a new bargaining unit last month. The proposed unit includes all contract academic staff members providing instruction in credit courses, including courses taught by distance education. Dianne Looker, AUFA's president, […]

A coalition of organizations, unions and activists across the U.S. and Canada have banded together to designate Oct. 28 ­ Nov. 3, 2001 as Fair Employment Week. The campaign about contract academic staff will be a week of coordinated action […]

This is regarding the article "How the Loss of Trust Led to the Breakdown of Collegiality" by Jeremy Richards (Bulletin, March 2001). While I agree with most parts of this article, I take issue with the statement: "By all reports […]

On March 21, 2001, the University of Saskatchewan signed an historic employment equity agreement subject to the supervision of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. In 1996, five members of the sociology department filed a sex discrimination complaint against the University […]

CAUT's newest educational course "Bargaining Team Training" was introduced in Vancouver at Simon Fraser University April 9 ­ 11, 2001. Twenty participants from faculty association bargaining teams at the University of British Columbia, University of Northern B.C., Simon Fraser University […]

After a 10-year hiatus CAUT revived its legal conference in Ottawa earlier this year for an audience of almost 40 labour lawyers, faculty association staff lawyers and grievance officers. Organized to address legal issues facing academics today, The Ambit of […]