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Ursula Franklin cautioned the 150 participants at CAUT's October conference, "Universities and Colleges in the Public Interest," that commercialization is moving Canada's post-secondary educational system away from a commitment to public usefulness and away from its primary purpose "to equip […]

Faculty at York University ratified a new collective agreement on October 14, 1999, with 71.8 per cent voting in favour of the settlement. The two-year settlement is retroactive to May 1, 1999. In the first year of the agreement, the […]

CAUT has expressed disappointment that last month's throne speech provided so little for post-secondary education. "It presented a surprisingly modest vision for the next century," said CAUT president Bill Graham, "a vision that does not seem to include repairing the […]

They are still at it, the apologists for the commercialization of publicly-funded higher education and research. Small teams of government folk are holding consultations in various places concerning the report of the Expert Panel on the Commercialization of University Research. […]

CAUT has made part-time and other contract academic staff an important priority. In addition to creating a new subcommittee on contract academic staff, CAUT is hiring a new professional officer whose job will be to work with local associations in […]

Jim Turk, executive director of CAUT, assured me on more than one occasion that CAUT would follow its published policies with respect to publishing the discriminatory job ad from the psychology department at Wilfrid Laurier University in the CAUT Bulletin. […]

Like most job ads, the one placed in the September issue of the Bulletin by the University of Toronto's Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies calls for expertise in a number of special fields, including Indigenous Women's Issues. There […]

Federal civil servants were jubilant last month when Mr. Justice Evans of the Federal Court (Trial Division) ruled against the federal government's attempt to evade pay equity. After a bitter 15 year struggle for wage equity in the federal public […]

Lentente récemment conclue entre Ford et les travailleurs et travailleuses canadien(ne)s de l'automobile, qui touche tous les travailleurs et travailleuses de Ford au Canada, établit un précédent. En effet, cette entente rompt avec la tendance des années 1990 alors que […]

elon des statistiques rendues publiques le mois dernier, les droits de scolarité et les subventions du secteur privé permettent aux universités d'augmenter leurs recettes alors que les subventions gouvernementales sont en baisse. Malgré la réduction des deniers publics depuis quelques […]

Neil Tudiver a été nommé au poste d'adjoint du directeur général -- négociation collective et organisation. M. Tudiver est professeur agrégé en travail social à l'Université du Manitoba où il enseigne depuis 22 ans. M. Tudiver est président sortant et […]

L'ACPPU conseille fortement au gouvernement fédéral de réinvestir ses apparents surplus budgétaires dans le secteur de l'enseignement postsecondaire et dans d'autres programmes sociaux. Dans le mémoire précédant le budget et soumis au Comité des finances le mois dernier, l'ACPPU déclare […]