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Hard on the heels of the federal budget, the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada (CMEC) has just released its "Report on Public Expectations of Postsecondary Education in Canada." Two years in the making, it is the first time […]

I wish to express my deepest appreciation to the University of Toronto Faculty Association, and the Canadian Association of University Teachers, first for having voted me in as a full member of the association and second for making it possible […]

After 26 days on strike, members of the Mount Allison Faculty Association (MAFA) returned to work on Feb. 15, as a result of a mediated settlement. "This has been a very difficult situation from the beginning," said MAFA President George […]

When McMaster University's faculty of health sciences slashed noted pediatrician Dr. José Venturelli's salary, he didn't get mad, he filed a grievance. Dr. Venturelli claimed that the combination of a cut to his base salary and an imposed increase in […]

Most educators in British Columbia's colleges, university-colleges and institutes now have new contract language to help them deal with harassment issues. The new provisions provide the faculty of the province's post-secondary institutions with a common set of procedures to use […]

The next few months will see a flurry of collective bargaining as more than a dozen agreements expire in the spring and summer. "This will be an extremely busy time for local associations and for CAUT because of the number […]

On Mar. 9 Canada Post issued a commemorative stamp to mark the 50-year anniversary of the establishment of the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology. The six colour stamp shows The Raven and the First Men by Haida artist […]

The Acadia University Faculty Association (AUFA) has expressed serious concern about language in new contracts for faculty teaching distance education courses. The proposed contracts ask faculty to agree that "copyright of all course material will remain with Acadia University and […]

CAUT's Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee has composed a Committee of Inquiry to investigate the Thorpe case at Mount Allison University. The committee members are Bernice Schrank from Memorial and Roger Gannon, recently retired from York. Both are former chairs […]

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is launching a pilot program to help organizations within communities and university institutions combine forces and tackle issues they have identified as being of common, priority concern. SSHRC will provide […]

The Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada has begun an 18-month project on the role of "performance indicators" (PIs) in the humanities and social sciences. Using funds provided by the SSHRC, a new Federation Advisory Committee on Performance Indicators […]

Le Comité de la liberté universitaire et de la permanence de l'emploi de l'ACPPU a formé un comité pour enquêter sur l'affaire Thorpe à l'Université Mount Allison. Les membres du comité sont Bernice Schrank, de l'Université Memorial, et Roger Gannon […]