Bulletin Archive

CAUT retains noted intellectual property lawyer Howard Knopf to handle its intervention in court action that could profoundly affect copyright, fair dealing & academic freedom. CAUT has been granted leave to intervene in an important copyright case that will have […]

The members of the National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science do not believe the position of CAUT on the issue of the new industry/university grants programs announced by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in November […]

'Excellence’ has become a supersaturated term, a word that means both everything & nothing, says Elizabeth Hodgson. A well-known academic at the University of British Columbia once asked me whether the faculty association was “opposed to excellence” and therefore “in […]

Rally Marks Lakehead Closure Dispute — LUFA members & their supporters marched on Lakehead University Dec. 21 to protest the administration’s decision to close the university down for four days & not pay anybody. [Photo: Scott Pound] Hundreds of academic […]

New Brunswick’s 2010 budget, released by the Liberal government last month, promises an infusion of funding for post-secondary education in the form of a tuition freeze, a 3 per cent increase in university operating grants and a $15 million infrastructure […]

After years of lobbying by the labour sector and others, the Ontario government has finally recognized workplace harassment and violence as occupational hazards. Amendments to the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, passed in December, will come into force in […]

St. Francis Xavier University’s academic staff union called a strike vote last month in response to what the union says are untenable proposals by the university administration during contract negotiations. StFXAUT, which represents about 400 academic staff at the university, […]

Selling Out: Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market — Howard Woodhouse — Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009; 360 pp; ISBN: 978-0-77353-580-0, cloth $39.95 CA. Defending the Values that Define Education By KAREN JENSEN In his recent […]

L'ACPPU a retenu les services du réputé avocat Howard Knopf, spécialiste de la propriété intellectuelle, pour la représenter à titre d'intervenante dans une affaire judiciaire dont l'issue pourrait avoir une incidence profonde sur le droit d'auteur, l'utilisation équitable et la […]

Une séance placée sous le thème « Qui est le porte-parole de la sci­ence? » résume parfaitement l’es­sence de la Conférence sur les politiques scientifiques canadiennes qui a eu lieu à Toronto en octobre 2009. J’étais au nombre des quel­que […]

Johanna Foster L'ACPPU a décerné à Johanna Foster son prix d’excellence acadé­mi­que destiné à souligner le mérite d’une personne dont l’action et les initiatives ont profité à la profession de bibliothécaire. C’est lors de l’assemblée du conseil de l’ACPPU tenue […]

Dans son budget 2010-2011 déposé le mois dernier, le gouvernement libéral du Nouveau-Brunswick promet une injection de fonds dans le secteur de l’éducation postsecondaire qui devraient permettre de prendre en charge les coûts associés au gel des droits de scolarité, […]