Bulletin Archive

L'Association du personnel académique de l’Université Carleton presse l’administration de l’uni­versité de mettre un frein à sa pratique néfaste de négociations à huis clos avec des donateurs privés. Dans une lettre adressée au con­seil des gouverneurs de l’université le 20 août, […]

CAUT’s blacked out website on June 4, 2012. Hundreds of websites across the country went dark in a ‘Black Out, Speak Out’ campaign against proposed changes to federal laws included in Bill C-38, the government's budget implementation bill. CAUT is […]

Canadians are increasingly concerned about access to affordable post-secondary education, according to a national poll commissioned by CAUT in April. The poll found that 49 per cent of Canadians believe it’s harder to get an education today, and 86 per […]

Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act is now 10 years old. With it and since its passage, we have seen unprecedented legal and regulatory changes made by our government in the name of national security — changes that have horribly undermined our civil […]

Felipe Fernández-Armesto prefers fertile uncertainty to dead-end facts. I hate knowledge, because certainty impedes thought. Every time I get to think that I know something, I stop and disturb myself with a new, subversive problem about it. “Don’t answer the […]

A new website, www.rxisk.org, has recently joined the ranks of other sites providing free medical information about prescription drugs. What makes RxISK different from any other site is its independence from the pharmaceutical industry, the caliber of people behind the […]

La réforme du programme d’assurance-emploi annoncée le mois dernier par la ministre fédérale des Ressources humaines, Diane Finlay, est une très mauvaise nouvelle pour les membres du personnel académique contractuel qui reçoivent des prestations d’assurance-emploi entre deux contrats. Dorénavant, les […]

CAUT’s April Council has welcomed the Osgoode Hall Faculty Association as its newest member. Osgoode is CAUT’s 73rd local member association that together with three federated associations means CAUT represents more than 68,000 academic and general staff at 124 universities […]

Dans son budget de 2012, le gouvernement conservateur a dévoilé une série de compressions draconiennes frappant l’ensemble des ministères et organismes fédéraux. Les trois conseils subventionnaires — le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada, les […]

Mike Dawes was honoured April 28 at CAUT’s Council meeting in Ottawa. Mike Dawes, a University of Western Ontario professor emeritus of mathematics, has been awarded CAUT’s Donald C. Savage Award. The award is acknowledgement of outstanding achievements in working […]

Un nombre sans cesse croissant d’universités refusent de souscrire au modèle de licence que l’Association des universités et collèges du Canada (AUCC) a conclu avec Access Copyright et qui doit permettre la reproduction en formats papier et numérique sur les […]

A growing number of univer­sities have announced they will not sign the model copying agreement that the Association of Uni­versities and Colleges of Canada signed with Access Copyright to cover the reproduction of paper and digital content on university campuses. […]