Bulletin Archive

CAUT has issued an informative guide for academic staff working overseas. The new handbook is a free publication that features general advice on both short-term visits and longer-term secondments and provides an overview of the main employment, professional, equality and […]

Representatives from student and union groups participating at a Quebec government meeting of education stakeholders last month walked out when plans for tuition fee hikes beginning in 2012 were unveiled. “It became clear the meeting was meant to legitimize a […]

CAUT will mark the 60th anni­ver­sary of its founding in 1951 with special events at the April council meeting. “We hope all associations will be present to celebrate this milestone in our organization’s life,” said CAUT president Penni Stewart. The […]

Readers Left with Lots to Ponder from Big Book The Demise of the Library School: Personal Reflections on Professional Education in the Modern Corporate University Richard J. Cox. Duluth, MN: Library Juice Press, 2010; 348 pp; ISBN: 978-1-93611-718-5, paper $35 […]

Biography Captures Historian’s Illusive Brilliance Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography Adam Sisman. London, UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010; 648 pp; ISBN: 978-0-29785-214-8, cloth £25. By William Bruneau Hugh Trevor-Roper was the writer of Letters from Oxford (Richard Davenport-Hines, ed., 2006). Those […]

Jenny Peto : l'étudiante de l'Université de Toronto dont la thèse de maîtrise fait l'objet de virulentes attaques En juin dernier, lorsque Jenny Peto a reçu sa maîtrise de l’Institut d’études pédagogiques de l’Ontario, à l’Université de Toronto, elle était […]

Un rapport intitulé, de façon anodine, Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education (assurer un avenir durable à l’enseignement supérieur) a été publié en Grande-Bretagne au grand désarroi du personnel académique. Les recommandations de ce rapport, lesquelles constituent le fondement […]

L'ACPPU a publié un guide d’information à l’intention du personnel académique travaillant à l’étranger. Gratuit, le nouveau guide donne des conseils généraux sur les courtes visites et sur les prêts de service de longue durée. Il fait également un survol […]

Lauréate du prix Sarah-Shorten de 2010 : Andrea O'Reilly, professeure d'études des femmes à l'Université York. Andrea O’Reilly, professseure agrégée à l’École d’Études des femmes de l’Université York et fondatrice de l’Association for Research on Mothering s’est vu décer­ner par […]

A nationwide poll revealed last month that almost six out of 10 Canadians said spending on post-secondary education should be increased even if it means paying higher taxes. The semi-annual CAUT survey by Harris/Decima also found a majority of Canadians […]

Insight & independent thinking are truly vocational skills, argues Alan Ryan. Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain to beatify John Henry Newman neatly coincided with the threat of a 75 per cent cut in government support for arts and humanities […]

The Conservative government’s latest copyright bill is a vast improvement over its predecessors — but one part has seriously negative consequences for most Canadians. The Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-32) raises important issues for academic staff, and we need to […]