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At first, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Nova Scotia government talked about funding cuts, but not about "quality control." With declining trans-fer payments, the government claimed it had little choice. If health and education were to survive […]

La Technical University of British Columbia ne garantira pas la permanence des professeurs. Leur rôle dans l'orientation de l'enseignement et de la recherche n'est pas assuré. Le milieu universitaire a recouvert de nuages l'horizon de la plus jeune des universités […]

Les universités n'ont jamais été totalement libres ni entièrement autonomes. Vers la fin du Moyen-Âge et au début de la Réforme, les universités étaient sur leur garde, craignant l'intervention des rois et des papes. Même au début du dix-neuvième siècle, […]

Technical University of B.C. Canada's newest university is under an academic cloud as the result of a boycott by the national organization of university professors. In an advertisement placed in the Vancouver Sun and the Globe and Mail, the Canadian […]

The press both in British Columbia and across the nation gave great prominence this summer to the sexual harassment case involving Liam Donnelly, the 29-year-old swim coach at Simon Fraser University. The University first fired Mr. Donnelly for sexual harassment […]

On July 7 CAUT sent the following letter to Dr. Graeme Fogelburg, Vice-Chancellor of Otago University at the request of the Association of University Staff of New Zealand: We have learned that Otago University is about to reorganize and to […]

Universities have never been perfectly free, nor have they been entirely autonomous. In the late Middle Ages and the early Reformation, they looked over their shoulders, worried about royal or papal intervention. Even in the early nineteenth century, as universities […]

You may be aware that the Premiers discussed the issue of student assistance at their recent conference. They have agreed to seek solutions to the issue of student assistance involving both federal and provincial governments. In addition, they devoted their […]

I received the supplement (Bulletin, April) with Ms. Bruneau's excellent article. Concerning Professor Irvine's article in Dialogue, I wonder why he focused on the gender issue. If he were truly against affirmative action, it seems to me he would have […]

I am writing in support of the initiative that the Canadian Association of University Teachers and six other post-secondary education groups took in urging the federal government to adopt student aid measures to help students deal with rising debt loads. […]

CAUT has been one of the leaders in lobbying UNESCO to adopt an international statement on the rights and responsibilities of teachers in higher education. The proposed recommendation will be before the general convention of UNESCO in early November. The […]

On July 16 CAUT sent the following letter to His Excellency Daniel T. Arap Moi, President of Kenya: The Canadian Association of University Teachers is appalled by the recent closure of the University of Nairobi and by the violent attacks […]