Bulletin Archive

L'ACPPU a lancé une vaste enquête nationale sur l’expérience de travail des membres du corps professoral. L’étude est axée entre autres sur la charge de travail et les questions connexes liées à la satisfaction professionnelle, la propension à changer d’emploi […]

Canada’s biggest deficit is the amount it no longer spends on education & research. CAUT has termed the federal government’s Mar. 4 budget a “major disappointment” for post-secondary education, leaving Ca­nada’s researchers behind, providing no new support for universities and […]

Les bibliothécaires de l’Université McMaster ont formé une nouvelle association et décidé de se syndiquer. L’association — la McMaster University Academic Librarians Association (MUALA) — a présenté une demande d’accréditation à la Commission des relations de travail de l’Ontario le […]

Following through on a previously-announced plan, the 2010 BC budget freezes government funding for public post-secondary institutions and student financial assistance programs for at least the next three years. The government claims the strategy “protects” education, but faculty contend it […]

Confronté à un déficit bud­gétaire de 4,7 milliards de dollars, le gouvernement de l’Alberta a décidé de geler les subventions de fonctionnement aux établissements postsecondaires après avoir augmenté de façon constante ses investissements dans ce secteur pendant des années. Ce […]

A major survey of faculty across the country has been launched by CAUT. The faculty work experience survey focuses on workload and related issues of job satisfac­tion, propensity for job change, and opportunity for research, among other measures. CAUT president […]

Le plus gros déficit du Canada se trouve dans l’argent que le pays ne consacre plus à l’éducation et à la recherche. L'ACPPU qualifie le budget fédé­ral du 4 mars d’« énorme déception » en ce qui concerne l’éducation postsecondaire, […]

No to Navitas — Carrie Dawson, president-elect of Dalhousie Faculty Association, & Terry Mitchell, the association’s president, distributed an open letter to the university community denouncing the Navitas deal. [Photo: David Tindall] A for-profit education corporation is facing stiff opposition […]

Saving Academic Freedom Cary Nelson. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2010; 288 pp; ISBN: 978-0-81475-859-5, cloth $27.95 US. By Len Findlay Is academic freedom in need of “saving” in the self-styled land of the free, home to “freedom […]

Ottawa copyright lawyer David Fewer finds search giant Google¹s ambition to build digital libraries seriously flawed. CAUT has filed a brief with the U.S. District Court in New York, raising several objections to a settlement reached late last year in […]

CAUT report highlights employment & earnings of female, First Nations & visible minority professors. Despite longstanding employment equity policies and practices, women and First Nations continue to be under­-represented in Canadian higher edu­cation, and along with visible minorities are earning […]

First Nations University of Canada has been under a cloud of controversy for five years. [Photo: Bryan Schlosser, The Leader-Post, ©2010. The Leader-Post, used with permission.] As this edition of the Bulletin was going to print, news reports emerged that […]