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Le gouvernement de l'Ontario revient à la charge sur la question des universités privées, mais, cette fois, il s'agit d'universités virtuelles ou en ligne. La pression vient des États-Unis où plusieurs de ces universités ont commencé à s'implanter. De nombreux […]

Member solidarity remarkable during difficult strike. Moncton's faculty and librarians ratified a new agreement on April 6 after five weeks on the picket line. They won a salary increase of just under 15 per cent over four years, starting in […]

The picket lines came down on March 17 when the members of UCCB's faculty association voted 75% in favour of accepting a four-year agreement. After almost four years of bargaining and a strike lasting five weeks, members of the Faculty […]

The president of Carleton University, Richard Van Loon, has dragged his institution into a bitter labour dispute by allowing management of the Calgary Herald onto campus to recruit journalism students to work behind picket lines. "We're shocked that Carleton, or […]

The NDP-Liberal coalition government of Saskatchewan, bolstered by greater than expected revenues from surging oil and gas prices, is devoting the bulk of its surplus to tax cuts while offering more modest increases in spending for health and education. The […]

The federal government must redesign the way it funds post-secondary education in order to ensure the continuing accessibility and quality of the system, concluded a CAUT-sponsored roundtable discussion held last month. "It's clearer now than ever before that the current […]

In late March, the Ryerson University Faculty Association hosted CAUT's newest educational program — a three and a half day grievance/arbitration course. The course provides training for faculty association activists in handling grievances and arbitration cases. Course participants learn basic […]

More than one thousand Canadian workers were killed on the job last year. Thousands of others died of work related diseases, and thousands more were permanently disabled due to work related diseases and exposures to workplace substances. In 1984, the […]

In late February, the administration at Mount Allison University and the Mount Allison Faculty Association brokered a last-minute deal for the long awaited salary scales with the assistance of an arbitrator. The terms of a mediated settlement following the 1999 […]

Professor Kin-Yip Chun, vindicated by a Feb.1, 2000 report by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, is still waiting for a resolution of his long-standing dispute with the University of Toronto. A report published more than a year ago by CAUT's […]

CAUT's former executive director, Donald Savage, has completed a study of academic freedom and institutional autonomy in New Zealand universities for the Association of University Staff of New Zealand. The study, covering both external and internal challenges and threats to […]

I used to think systemic discrimination was out there somewhere but that it did not impact institutions of higher learning. I thought learned people were broad-minded and accepting of others as equals. I thought by definition the university means encompassing […]