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Academics are nothing if not totally absorbed in their work, be it research, teaching, or ideally, both. Historically, universities provided a nurturing environment for these dedicated people, offering room, board and a modest salary while largely leaving them alone to […]

Ruth Jonathan. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997; 244 pp; paper $24.95 CA. Illusory Freedoms brings together social and educational theory. Its practical focus is the recent neo-liberal approach to the ordering of society and education, analysed here not as direct challenge […]

March 21 has been recognized since 1966 by the United Nations as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Canada was one of the first countries to support the UN initiative and in 1989 responded with an annual […]

Larry Cuban. New York: Teachers College Press, 1999; 288 pp; paper $28.95us. hardcover $63.00 US. Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: What is more important, teaching or research? Using two departments (history and medicine) […]

International Women's Day on March 8, 2001 will celebrate the second Global Women's Strike. Last year, women in 64 countries on every continent took what time they could away from waged and unwaged work in the first-ever global strike "for […]

After several months of e-mail communication, the CAUT executive's committee on equity had its first conference call meeting Feb. 9. The seven-member committee created last fall will provide advice to the executive on equity concerns, including CAUT issues which have […]

The legal and moral duty of university administrations and faculty associations to disabled academic staff members was under the spotlight recently at CAUT's annual grievance arbitration conference. "The professoriate is an increasingly diverse group," explained Michael Piva, chair of CAUT's […]

Affirmative action programs have successfully redistributed education and economic resources to women and minorities without serious consequences to efficiency, say two noted economists writing in the September 2000 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature. In "Assessing Affirmative Action," authors […]

In an unprecedented move, the Concordia University senate voted to accommodate students who want to defer writing final exams so that they can demonstrate at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City Apr. 20 ­ 22. About 9,000 people […]

The Nipissing University Faculty Association (NUFA) has certified a new bargaining unit of contract academic staff. On Feb. 13, the Ontario Labour Relations Board issued a certificate after NUFA successfully settled its dispute with the university over the definition of […]

CAUT along with hundreds of national and international counterparts will soon be signatory of a joint declaration for democratic education. In a concerted effort to keep public education out of trade agreements, an education forum hosted by the CSQ and […]

On Jan. 31, the faculty association at Brock University concluded nine months of negotiations with the university administration. The agreement, effective July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2003 was ratified by association members on Feb. 14. Major changes include an […]