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Students and private donors are making up the bulk of the cash shortfall as governments continue to withdraw public funding from the nation's universities, new data reveals. The Canadian Association of University Business Officers and Statistics Canada say only 55.3 […]

On Sept. 18, the Ontario Divisional Court rejected a request from three Trent University faculty members for a judicial review of the Trent board of governor's decision to close the university's two downtown colleges after the senate had rejected the […]

Canadian faculty members are losing the wage race with their American counterparts. In 1995, full-time university teachers in Canada earned about 4 per cent less than all full-time teachers in the United States. By 1999, the difference in average salary […]

The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University & Creating True Higher Learning Stanley Aronowitz. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000; 217 pp; cloth $26 US. As I write this review The Globe and Mail's John Ibbitson reports on the Ontario government's new […]

Scott Sinclair. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2000; 135 pp; paper $19.95 CA. Negotiations now underway in Geneva are designed to subject an ever-greater range of democratic policy-making decisions to oversight -- and possible overturning -- by the World […]

Manning Marable. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000; 353 pp; paper $22 US. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, a leading text for courses in African-American politics and history, has been central to the education of thousands of political activists since […]

To the surprise of both sides, the Acadia University Faculty Association (AUFA) and the Acadia University Board of Governors managed to reach a tenth collective agreement over the summer without a strike vote, conciliation, and a strike. "The membership was […]

With the recent release of the Statistics Canada report on tuition, students have official recognition of what we have known for years: massive government cuts to education spending have driven tuition fees -- and, therefore, student debt -- through the […]

Canadian theses titles will be removed from the U.S. owned web site Contentville.com until further notice. The temporary reprieve for graduate students follows consultations last month with CAUT, the National Graduate Council, the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies, the Canadian […]

Writing in the May 1981 CAUT Bulletin, teaching award recipient Arthur Haberman outlined clear strategies for addressing the challenge of creating and sustaining an environment in which students can learn to value cooperative approaches to scholarship, teaching and research. He […]

The faculty of science at Dalhousie University has recently cut a deal with a private, for-profit educational institution that smacks of little more than a back door for enrolment to the university -- and an expensive one for the university […]

The College Institute Educators' Association wins full access to the rights and benefits of collective agreements for many former temporary faculty. This fall, close to 300 CIEA faculty members who hold temporary positions will be in regular ongoing positions as […]