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Forty delegates from across Canada gathered recently at Val David, Quebec, to consider the Challenges of Concessionary Bargaining, this year's topic at the annual Collective Bargaining Conference. The conference, organized by the Collective Bargaining and Economic Benefits Committee of CAUT, […]

Department of Anthropology / Center for Instructional Technology Development, University of Toronto at Scarborough Traditionally, the learned journal has served as the primary medium for scholarly communication, legitimizing and assessing scholarly discourses and intellectual labour, and facilitating the academic review […]

With the opening of universities, colleges, and schools across the country comes the annual deluge of editorial opinion and punditry on all things educational. In the last week of August, The Globe and Mail came out once again for higher […]

The university community has for many years been unable to speak with one voice to the federal government on the importance of federal funding for university research. A sign of the serious nature of the crisis in university research is […]

The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) met in Edmonton this past May for the second National Consultation on Education "Accountability in Education." The university and college sector was very much on the ministers' minds. From one point of […]

Much has been written and said in recent years by politicians, university administrators and academics about the accountability of academics in publicly-funded institutions. But there has been much less said about the financial, administrative and academic accountability of university administrations […]

University libraries and the services they offer are an intrinsic part of the missions of universities. They house and provide access to the resources which are integral to the support of teaching and research. They are the places in which […]

CAUT first became involved in collective bargaining in the late 1960s, and today more than half of the 28,000 members are covered by collective agreements negotiated under labour law. Has then the unionization of professors and librarians made academic staff […]

Accountability is the buzzword of the 1990s and, although a perfectly sensible concept, it has lost some of its credibility through overuse and abuse. In university and college circles governments have commonly adopted it as an excuse for irresponsible budget […]

In the last few months there has been vigorous debate in the Canadian and American press about the merits and effects of corporate downsizing. Just as doubts begin to creep in among businessmen, some academic administrators have begun to burn […]

A critical measure of the excellence of Canadian universities is how well they facilitate the full development of the talents of all Canadians. Canada is a pluralistic society made up of many diverse communities with differing, legitimate perspectives and concerns. […]