Bulletin Archive

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 […]

Caut Council has unanimously endorsed a motion supporting the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d’université (FQPPU) in its fight to have the Quebec government’s proposed legislation on university governance withdrawn. “There is a tremendous amount of mobilization in Quebec […]

Plus de la moitié des Canadiens seraient favorables à l’augmentation des dépenses publiques en éducation postsecondaire (EPS) même si une telle mesure impliquait une hausse d’impôt, révèle le dernier sondage ACPPU-Harris/ Décima dont les résultats ont été dévoilés le 27 […]

CAUT analysis of knowledge infrastructure funding reveals most money not going for research facilities. Knowledge Infrastructure Grants: Total pledged to date $1.7 billion; Non-research projects 53.6%. [Photo: 2009 JupiterImages Corporation] Less than half of what the federal government says it’s […]

An article in the October 2009 issue of the CAUT Bulletin refers to the “obscene” compensation deal for the University of Calgary’s outgoing president who will retire in January 2010. While such compensation strikes many as surprising, excessive, or even […]

CAUT president Penni Stewart speaks of CAUT’s “mandate and role in defending colleagues whose (academic) freedom has been infringed” (Bulletin, October 2009) and insists, rightly, that “we must pay serious attention to each incident, because each potentially esta­blishes precedents that […]

It is important to get the facts straight. Gary Goodyear’s chief of staff threatened a cutoff in new funding for SSHRC because of a peer-reviewed decision to fund a conference on Israel and Palestine sponsored by Osgoode Hall Law School, […]

Dorit Naaman rightfully condemns the attempt by Jewish organizations to stifle debate in Canada on the future of Israel and Palestine, a debate that is lively in Israel, perhaps more so than here (Bul­le­tin, October 2009). But her own comment […]

Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars — Amanda H. Goodall — Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009; 208 pp; ISBN: 978-0-691138-00-8, cloth $29.95 US; ISBN: 978-1-4008-3158-6, e-book $29.95 US. Top Scholars Should Head […]