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An electronic newsgroup can be a simple and effective extension to an educational experience for both students and instructors. What is a course news-group? A newsgroup is one type of Internet-based communication that is often compared to an electronic bulletin […]

A June 26th United States Supreme Court decision marks the court's first dip into the unknown legal waters of the Internet and, at the same time, raises questions for Canadians surfing the Net. On June 26, The United States Supreme […]

Conduct for Research Involving Humans The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) have received the final report of the Tri-Council Working Group on ethical conduct […]

Scaling the Ivory Tower: Stories from Women in Business School Faculties Dianne Cyr and Blaize Horner Reich (eds.), Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 224 pp.; paperback $19.95us; hardcover $55.00us. Because academics tend to be an individualistic lot, accounts such as this […]

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 […]

Le Conseil rend hommage à Kanatia et à ses 25 ans de service - Kanatia Consulting Inc. célèbre cette année son 25e anniversaire comme fournisseur de polices d'assurance-vie, d'assurance accident et d'assurance pour les biens professionnels aux membres de l'ACPPU. […]

Faire une grève exige de l’énergie, du temps, de la bonne volonté et un solide leadership. Nos collègues de l'Université York ont prouvé qu'ils possédaient en quantité de l’énergie, du temps, de la bonne volonté et un solide leadership après […]