Bulletin Archive

By CAUT Staff Several CAUT member associations have concluded or remain in contract negotiations. All updates are from the time of writing and not publication. The Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) has ratified a new agreement following conciliation in early January. […]

By CAUT Staff Several academic staff associations are focusing on governance issues and learning about ways to incorporate governance into their bargaining process. Here are two examples of events in January organized around governance issues: The Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) […]

Sarah Lamdan is a Professor of Law at the City University of New York School of Law. Her book, Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information, shows how these unregulated entities mine, commodify and sell our data, […]

By Tim McSorley It’s no secret that governments and corporations have been collecting, using and analyzing our data. The tools they employ have been rapidly increasing in number and complexity — from spyware to social media crawlers to algorithmic analysis. […]

By John Lorinc Dalhousie Faculty Association president David Westwood describes it as the three phases of online teaching — a half-joking reference to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief. First, in March 2020, came frustration, when countless instructors found themselves […]

In CAUT's State of the Academic Profession Survey, we asked respondents to identify how they taught their courses prior to the pandemic and today.   Note that this data only includes those respondents who were teaching pre-pandemic and in the […]

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By Peter McInnis In the calculus of academic performance, service is often relegated to a distinctly minor role behind research and teaching. The oft-cited workload ratio of 40/40/20 is invoked to suggest some clear rationale for these artificial divisions, and […]

Aux termes de la Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, le Congrès américain a adopté un plan d’aide d’urgence de 14 milliards $ pour les universités et collèges du pays. Le Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund fournira aux établissements […]

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The percentage of CAS conducting non-paid* scholarly activities * Note that typically CAS are only paid to teach and are not paid for scholarly activities (i.e., research, fieldwork) The percentage of CAS that have no access or insufficient access to […]