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Earlier this summer, after a month of intensive bargaining, the University of Northern British Columbia Faculty Association reached an accord with the board of governors on their second collective agreement. Members of the faculty association voted 87 per cent in […]

The Ontario Labour Relations Board handed down its decision on May 26 ruling in favour of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association that full-time and part-time faculty should be in a single bargaining unit. As reported in the April […]

The Memorandum of Agreement ratified by the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo and the board of governors this past May and June contained a proposal to introduce a Rand Formula at the University of Waterloo. At present approximately […]

On Sept. 8, members of the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa ratified a three-year agreement which will expire in 2001. The settlement includes the following provisions: Salaries - 1998-1999: 1.6 per cent retroactive to May 1, 1998; […]

Les administrateurs de l'hôpital des enfants malades (Hospital for Sick Children) et l'Université de Toronto sont au centre d'une controverse qui a causé bien des remous. Dr Nancy Olivieri, l'un des éminents chercheurs de l'hôpital, est la principale actrice de […]

L'ACPER est l'Association canadienne des professeurs émérites et retraités. L'idée de cette association «virtuelle» est née lors d'une rencontre d'une journée tenue à l'Université de Calgary pendant le congrès des sociétés savantes de 1994. Un petit groupe de travail a […]

Programme fédéral de Réseaux de centres d'excellence En juillet dernier, M. Tom Brzustowski, président du Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie (CRSNG) et président du Comité de direction du Programme fédéral de réseaux de centres d'excellence (RCE), […]

Centre de développement de l'information scolaire et professionelle, Montréal, Les éditions Ma Carrière, 1998, 178 p. 9,95 $ CAN (cartonné). Cet ouvrage, fait en collaboration avec les éditions Ma Carrière, regroupe 35 portraits de femmes ayant choisi un métier non […]

Confidential Agreements Between Universities and Private Companies Pose Serious Challenge to Faculty Intellectual Property Rights Tensions are rapidly mounting today between faculty and university administrations over the high tech commercialization of higher education. During the last two decades campus commercialization […]

An adjudicator looking into the handling of a racism complaint against a university professor has made an important decision about academic freedom and the necessity for universities having and following good complaint procedures. In June of 1997 Peter Mercer, vice-president […]

A partial victory has been achieved in an academic freedom and tenure case involving the University of Augsburg, in the German state of Bavaria, according to Pat O'Neill, chair of CAUT's Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee. Professor O'Neill said that […]

Perhaps the most insidious presupposition in the growing attack on tenure at Canadian universities is the widely-held conviction that academic freedom is not, could never be, at risk in Canada. Therefore, the argument runs, those who defend tenure are merely […]