Bulletin Archive

CAUT member associations have been very successful in organizing contract academic staff and this has resulted in better pay and work conditions. But contract academics still face challenges in making the remuneration leap. And as the post-secondary sector increases the […]

Stem cells and “STEM sells” are nearly synonymous these days. Both stand for the belief that our future health and wealth will emerge from high-tech research. No wonder the humanities and social sciences are struggling to measure up to the […]

Les chercheurs et les ingénieurs des univer­sités canadiennes s’interrogent de plus en plus sé­ri­eusement sur l’efficacité du Programme de subventions à la décou­verte du Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG), compte tenu du taux […]

Les Canadiens et leurs gouvernements sont unanimes à reconnaître que l’éducation postsecon­daire devrait être accessible à tous les étudiants qualifiés. Mais l’accès quasi universel, est-ce là un objectif réaliste dans le contexte des po­litiques de droits de scolarité pra­ti­quées actuellement […]

L'Université Crandall (anciennement l’Université baptiste de l’Atlantique) vient d’être ajoutée 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. Cette mesure fait suite à […]

Nadia Guidotto L'ACPPU a décerné cette année la bourse commémorative Stewart-Reid à Nadia Guidotto, doctorante en science politique à l’Université York. Nadia détient un baccalauréat ès arts (spécialisé) de l’Université Queen’s, une maîtrise en droit de l’Osgoode Hall Law School […]

La colère gronde chez les étudiants de la Nouvelle-Écosse depuis la publication d’un rapport recommandant une réforme radicale du système universitaire de la province. Invoquant les contraintes budgétaires du gouvernement et la diminution du nombre d’inscriptions dans les établissements, Tim […]

More than 300 organizations have joined the call for the Harper government to reinstate the manda­tory long-form census since the federal government announced it would be replaced by a voluntary survey. “Stakeholders ranging from the business community, to university researchers […]

Questions of epistemology (“Trent Leads in Recognition of Indigenous Knowledge,” CAUT Bulletin, June 2010) should not be decided politically or by university administrations (whose judgement is suspect in so many areas), but rather by academics properly trained in academic disciplines […]

Jim Clark is right to say that academics should be concerned with the nature of knowledge. And, indeed, the Trent University vision statement about which I wrote was debated and adopted by academics, whom I assume were “properly trained in […]

Summer, the season of madcap antics, went wild this year with Industry Minister Tony Clement’s quiet announcement, one Satur­day afternoon in June, that the federal government was dropping the mandatory long-form census in favour of a voluntary survey. So much […]

Maritime university graduates are paying an average of $31,047 for their education, according to a Maritime Provinces High­er Education Commission report released in June. The report on the Class of 2003 also said less than 25 per cent of students […]