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Academic staff associations meeting in Ottawa for CAUT’s recent Council meeting voted unanimously in opposition to new grant programs at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council that will provide public funds for projects to solve “company-specific” problems for the […]

Une entente a finalement été trouvée entre les parties dans l’affaire concernant l’ancien professeur de l’Université Acadia, Colin Wightman. Les dispositions du règlement conclu le mois dernier demeurent toutefois confidentielles. L’université et l’ACPPU ont convenu, plus tôt cette année, de […]

Knowledge, Traditions & Values More than 80 Aboriginal scholars from across Canada parti­­ci­pated in CAUT’s Transforming the Academy conference in Sask­atoon last month. “The focus on transformation reflects the urgency in Aboriginal educators’ demands that post-secondary institutions recognize cultural differences […]

University Education and Enlightenment Ian Angus. Winnipeg, MB: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2009; 176 pp; ISBN: 978-1-89403-740-2, paper $14.95 ca. What are universities good for? This question has generated intense debate and is often seen as a symptom of crises in […]

The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for Survival Jock McCulloch & Geoffrey Tweedale. New York, NY: Oxford University Press Inc., 2008; 336 pp; ISBN: 978-0-19953-485-2, hardcover $60 ca. In the early 20th century, asbestos had a reputation as a […]

How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy Donald Gutstein. Toronto, ON: Key Porter Books, 2009; 320 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55470-191-9, paper $22.95 ca. North Americans have expressed themselves loud and clear on a wide range of issues — like the need for expanded […]

The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance — Colin Bennett — Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008; 259 pp; ISBN: 978-0-26202-638-3, cloth $28 US. Watching Big Brother Watching By MURRAY MOLLARD When did you connect privacy and freedom? When […]

Unions representing academic staff at Nipissing University, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto have averted strikes and ratified new collective agreements. Nipissing University Full-time members of the Nipissing University Faculty Association voted by an overwhelming majority […]

Johanna Foster, right, and Francesca Holyoke, chair of CAUT’s Librarians’ Committee, pose together during the CAUT council meeting Nov. 28. CAUT has awarded Johanna Foster top honours for service and achievements of benefit to academic librarians. Foster, an information services […]

Judy Rebick, right, accepts the Sarah Shorten Award from Paddy Musson, chair of CAUT’s Women’s Committee at the CAUT council meeting Nov. 28. Judy Rebick, the CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University, has been chosen […]

Les défenseurs de la liberté académique — Le directeur général de l’ACPPU, James Turk, prend la parole devant les délégués à l’assemblée du Conseil, à l’occasion d’une cérémonie spéciale en l’honneur des 16 universitaires qui ont démissionné de leur poste […]

Le directeur général de l’ACPPU, James Turk, accueille le président de l’association du personnel académique du Collège universitaire Concordia de l’Alberta (CUCAFA) lors de l’assemblée du Conseil le 27 novembre. À sa récente assemblée semestrielle, le conseil de l’ACPPU a […]