Bulletin Archive

Gauri Sreenivasan is the Co-Executive Director of the Canadian Council for Refugees. She is a leading voice on refugee rights, asylum policy and migrant justice in Canada.

Despite an increase of $17 million to its provincial operating grant for the 2026-2027 academic year, Memorial University of Newfoundland is taking aggressive austerity measures.

Wage theft became public conversation last August, when Air Canada flight attendants manifested their “Unpaid work won’t fly” campaign in strike action

In May of this year, I had the honour of being appointed by the UNESCO Director-General to a 12-person international expert group charged with advising on revisions to the 1997 Recommendation Concerning the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel.

Thank you so much for the capsule — almost bullet-point-styled — “A Brief History of CAUT” in the March-April (2026) Bulletin, pp. 4-6. A proud, 75-year history was quite ably presented, with the significant years properly highlighted.

In the November-December 2025 issue of CAUT’s Bulletin, Ozayr Salookee and Michael Faciejew wrote the commentary “Palestine censorship shakes architecture community.”

For many years, we have accepted the statement found in most — if not all — academic job advertisements stating a version of the following: All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, priority will be given to Canadian citizens or permanent residents. 

Gauri Sreenivasan is the Co-Executive Director of the Canadian Council for Refugees. She is a leading voice on refugee rights, asylum policy and migrant justice in Canada.

As the phrase “in the spirit of” suggests, this collection of essays by distinguished contributors is not a detailed historiography, such as Steve Batterson’s The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: Communism, McCarthyism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom.

The American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers have unveiled a new vision for post-secondary education ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections.

An arbitrator has awarded members of the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) a 3% salary increase for the period of July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027, ending a contentious round of negotiations.

More than a year after bargaining began for a first collective agreement, members of the Association of McGill Professors of Education (AMPE) have unanimously approved a limited strike mandate.