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Acadia University Agrees to Resolve Wightman Case through Arbitration
With the assistance of mediator Bruce Outhouse, Acadia Uni­ver­sity and CAUT reached an agreement in the case of Dr. Colin Wightman — whose termination by Acadia had prompted CAUT to start censure proceedings against the university. Acadia and CAUT agreed […]
08-09-2009
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CAUT Budget Brief
Increase Outlay for Research & Improve Accessibility CAUT is calling on the federal government’s 2010 budget to increase funding for the three granting councils and for better accessibility to post-secondary education. In its submission ahead of the Finance Committee’s pre-budget […]
08-09-2009
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CAUT Releases Peer Review Q&A Brochure
A free guide to serving on peer review committees is now available to academic staff. What is Fair? Q&A on Procedures and Standards in Peer Review, developed by CAUT’s Academic freedom & Tenure Committee, addresses the primary aspects of proper […]
08-09-2009
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Carleton Student Wins Reid Fellowship
Kevin Walby, a doctoral student in sociology at Carleton University, has been awarded CAUT’s Stewart Reid fellowship. Walby graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor of arts (Hons), earned a post-graduate sociology degree from the University of Victoria, […]
08-09-2009
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Measuring the Unmeasurable
Assessment and impact: these are the new watchwords in higher education. We have assessment indicators in the social sciences, the physical sciences and our business and law schools, which ask: “What does this research do? What footprint does it leave? […]
08-09-2009
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Freedom of Inquiry Seems Always in Jeopardy
I attended a conference last year “Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times” commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the University in Exile at the New School for Social Research in New York. During the conference it […]
08-09-2009
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Sombres perspectives pour la population étudiante
La présidente nationale de la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants, Katherine Giroux-Bougard, prévient que l'éducation supérieure devient de plus en plus hors de la portée de nombreuses familles canadiennes. Taux de chômage sans précédent, hausse des droits de scolarité […]
08-09-2009
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Business Model Squeezes the Serendipity Out of Research
The problem as I see it is that as scientists we have accepted wholeheartedly a functionalist paradigm for conceptualizing, explaining and validating the research enterprise. The norms associated with this perception of research circulate broadly beyond the research enterprise and […]
06-06-2009
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Anti-Science Sentiment in Canadian Government
For the past six months CAUT has been at the forefront of a campaign to raise awareness of the many problematic aspects of the federal government’s research agenda. Partly this is about money. In the recent federal budget, not only […]
06-06-2009
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CAUT Sets Up National Trust for Full Range of Benefits
Caut Council delegates meeting in Ottawa April 24 voted unanimously to create a national benefits trust to provide cost effective and comprehensive benefit coverage for academic staff association members and their families. “CAUT member associations can now negotiate with their […]
06-06-2009
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Arbitrator Dismisses Google Grievance
Lakehead University has switched to Google for its e-mail, amid warnings about the way internet companies use personal data. [File Photo] An arbitrator has found that Lakehead Uni­versity did not violate a collective bargaining agreement when it replaced its campus […]
06-06-2009
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Award Winning Journalism
CAUT president Penni Stewart (centre) hands out the 8th annual journalism awards April 25 to Melissa Tobin, winner of the student media category & Douglas Todd, winner of the professional print & broadcast category. Recipients from opposite ends of the […]
05-06-2009