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In November the CAUT Bulletin published a report on a joint conference of the Canadian Association of University Business Officers and Academic Vice-Presidents (Conference Had No Place For Faculty). The report quoted the following attack on the CAUT in a […]

Sherri Torjman's article "Hysteria Poor Substitute for History in Public Debate" about the CPP is a lesson that can be transferred to the position paper in the same issue of the Bulletin (January 1997) "The GST & Books: A Taxing […]

As access to the Internet becomes more widespread so too does the debate between free speech and censorship of the information highway. Last year the Canadian public was inundated with reports in the news of the RCMP making various busts […]

Learning to erase your footprints on the Information Highway Cox News Most of us live quiet and humdrum lives with very little to hide. But we still pull our shades at night. So I’m not suggesting you have anything to […]

Differentiated Roles A couple of years ago, a UBC dean circulated a document called Differentiated Roles for Faculty. Few were surprised, as administrators across Canada have been talking about differentiation since the 1960s as a way to encourage "research-intensiveness." What […]

Le Québec offre aux Québécois et aux citoyens du monde un système d'enseignement supérieur public, une entreprise admirable. Depuis la grande réforme des années 1960, les Québécois ont profité d'un réseau d'établissements d'enseignement publics installés aux quatre coins de la […]

Le lundi 16 décembre 1996, le corps universitaire de l'Université Queen's a voté massivement (93 p. 100) en faveur de la ratification de sa première convention collective avec l'université après un an de négociation. Des 865 membres de l'unité de […]

On Monday, Dec. 16, 1996 the academic staff of Queen's University overwhelmingly ratified their first collective agreement with the university following a year at the bargaining table. 93 per cent voted in favour of the new agreement. 477 of the […]

Brock University professors and librarians have taken the first step toward forming a union. At the certification polls on Nov. 26 the result of the count conducted by the returning officers for the Ontario Labour Relations Board showed that 64 […]

Fallout From Trent Strike The President of Trent University, Leonard Conolly, announced his resignation early in January, a month after the end of the second faculty strike at Trent University. This followed the resignations in December of the Vice-President (Academic), […]

Trustees of the Defence Fund suggested that their reports to CAUT Council also be published in the CAUT Bulletin. This is the first of such reports (with an update on Trent). Subsequent reports will be submitted following Council meetings. Individual […]

The Advisory Panel on Future Directions for Post-secondary Education appointed by Ontario Education Minister John Snobelen has reported that there are serious inadequacies in the total financial resources available to post-secondary education in the province and that "the sector's competitive […]