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In an unprecedented move, the Canadian Association of University Teachers is launching a national public awareness campaign to draw attention to the worsening crisis affecting post-secondary education in Canada. At its Nov. 20-22 meeting in Ottawa, CAUT Council voted to […]

Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System John McMurtry, Toronto: Garamond Press, 1998; 400 pp; $24.95 ca We live in an age of statistics. More often than not, they are depressing. The annual United Nations Development Report, 1997, […]

The warning signs have been there for a long time, but many of our colleagues have regarded as unduly alarmist the argument that post-secondary education is in danger of being turned into a "commodity," that university scholarship is increasingly being […]

By the summer of 1994 the University of British Columbia was faced with an escalating crisis in the Political Science Department, caused by complaints of pervasive racism and sexism lodged by a handful of graduate students. UBC appointed Vancouver lawyer […]

A bizarre hiring practice at the University College of Cape Breton has again become a contentious issue as the university college searches for a new dean of arts and letters. Ironically, it is a "letter" that sparked the controversy in […]

Jacqui Ewart, Gail Sedorkin & Tony Schirato, Chicago: Allen & Unwin, 1998; 180 pp; $11.95 us. Whether writing an advertisement, creating a brochure, or drafting a speech, the task usually comes with a tight deadline and not enough instructions. Get […]

Dan Georgakas & Marvin Surkin, Cambridge: South End Press, 1998; 300 pp; paper $18 us; cloth $40 us. This book tells the remarkable story of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, based in Detroit, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, […]

Computers and the Internet have acquired a central role in our lives as faculty. For many, this development is unsettling. Much thought, discussion and even anguish will ensue before computers are fashioned into productive, rewarding and comfortable extensions of ourselves. […]

Think of a writer huddled in an unheated apartment. By candlelight she is putting the finishing touches to a manuscript. Her work is brilliant. It has the potential to bring her fame and fortune -- unless someone floods the market […]

Preliminary enrolment data for 1998-99, released in November by the Centre for Education Statistics, showed an overall increase in the number of students registered for full-time study at Canadian universities, and a decrease in part-time registration. For all Canadian universities […]

CAUT President Bill Graham has sent a donation on behalf of CAUT to the APEC Protesters Legal Defence Fund. This brings to more than $7,000 the amount donated by faculty associations across Canada. "We are deeply troubled by what happened […]

Construction of the Canadian Association of Emeriti and Retired Academics web site (http://caera.caut.ca) is now complete. Members can read and post observations and comments likely to be of interest to academics and retirees across the country.