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Postcard campaign set to start this month across the country. More than 100,000 postcards urging the federal government to increase its core funding of Canada's universities and colleges are being distributed on campuses across the country this fall. The eye-catching […]

A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a student of mine who follows the discussion of the Political Science Graduate Students' list-serve. It appears the National Library of Canada, that venerable institution to which I had made available […]

Since the beginning of August CAUT has received a deluge of calls and e-mails from its members expressing their concern over the commercial sale of Canadian theses through Contentville.com. For many years graduate students have provided copies of their theses […]

On July 5, CAUT president Tom Booth wrote to Gustavo Noboa, president of Ecuador, condemning a violent police assault on the national headquarters of the National Union of Educators (UNE) and the arrest and imprisonment of the union president. UNE […]

Approaching our fiftieth year as an organization, we are every bit as much challenged by threats to academic freedom as we were in our early days. Academic freedom is potentially seen by some as a commodity, as if it were […]

Who owns Economics 101? The university owns the course title, but the title, "Economics 101," is only a name on an empty shell. It is the content that transforms the title into a course – into something meaningful. That content […]

CAUT and the Association of University Teachers (AUT) in Great Britain recently signed a reciprocal membership agreement. The two organizations agreed to provide services for members working temporarily in the others' country. The joint agreement, called the Transnational Higher Education […]

John Harp, professor of sociology and anthropology at Carleton University, is joining CAUT as a visiting scholar for the next year to study the impact of the commercialization of university research and the restructuring of post-secondary education in the wake […]

Le 25 mai, la Commission des relations de travail de la C.-B. a remis sa décision qui confirme que l'Association des professeurs de l'University of British Columbia est le seul agent de négociation collective pour une unité qui inclut à […]

Dans un rapport publié le mois dernier, Statistique Canada a indiqué que le fameux « exode » de travailleurs canadiens hautement qualifiés vers les États-Unis demeure faible sur le plan historique, faible par rapport à la réserve de travailleurs dans […]

Une récente décision du gouvernement de l'Ontario de modifier l'attribution des bourses d'études supérieures a été rejetée. Le gouvernement envisageait de confier l'administration des bourses d'études aux établissements d'enseignement, sur une base fixe. « Cette décision préoccupait sérieusement les diplômés […]

L'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières a mis ses chargés de cours en lock-out pour la session d'été. Ce lock-out illégal vise les instructeurs de l'École internationale de français, membres du Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique, qui sont fortement représentés […]