Bulletin Archive

Post-secondary unions are condemning the BC government’s adoption of Bill 18, the Advanced Education Statutes Amendment Act. The new legislation, passed on March 29, bars elected faculty, staff or student representatives from sitting on university or college boards and further […]

The New Brunswick government has unveiled a budget that promises to slash the province’s deficit by half and banks on balancing the books by 2014–2015. Richard Hudson, president of the Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations, said there’s disappointment at […]

Despite widespread student protests, Quebec will go ahead with plans to increase tuition fees, starting this fall. [Kunal Shah] A major question ahead of Quebec’s March 20 budget was whether the Liberal government would back away from its proposed $1,625 […]

After faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School cast an overwhelming vote April 2 against a partnership with Jim Balsillie’s private think tank for an international law program at York University, the university announced it was abandoning the initiative. “By cancelling […]

In a new three-year contract ratified last month, members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association have agreed to two years of cost-of-living increases of 1.25 per cent, follow­ed by a 1.75 per cent increase in the third year. Increases also apply […]

A multi-million dollar deal York University signed recently with Jim Balsillie’s Centre for International Governance Innovation for a new program in international law gives the Waterloo-based think tank say over areas in which the program’s chairs will work, their research […]

In my opinion the commentary “Student Surveys a Poor Measure of Teaching Competence” (Bulletin, January 2012) discredits the extensive academic literature on teaching evaluations and the experience-based learning intelligence of students. For CAUT to publish this opinion to tens of […]

About half of all pension plans at post-secondary institutions in Canada are defined benefit plans in which income on retirement is based on salary and years of service. In these, employees contri­bute a fixed amount while the employer pays the […]

Thousands of CEGEP & university students are on strike across Quebec, hoping to force the provincial government to back off plans to increase tuition fees by $1,625 over five years. [Kunal Shah] More than 100,000 Quebec students have walked out […]

With a provincial election just around the corner, Alberta’s Conservative government tabled a budget in February with spending increases for all major social programs, ranging from a jump of 7.9 per cent for health spending to a 2.7 per cent […]

Le Collège universitaire Providence, situé au sud de Winni­peg à Otterburne, Manitoba, vient d’être ajouté à la liste établie par l’ACPPU des universités et collèges qui imposent, comme condition d’embauche, l’obligation de subir un test d’obédience idéologique ou de foi. […]

Osgoode Hall Faculty Associ­ation members voted to unionize in a Labour Board vote following an application for cer­tification for full-time faculty at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. “Members of the association value, and aim to continue, their […]