Bulletin Archive

In your Editorial in the March edition of the Bulletin, you argue free speech and freedom of expression were violated when two universities banned a poster showing an Israeli helicopter bombing a Palestinian child holding a teddy bear. You and […]

Your statement in the editorial “Univer­sities Are Betraying Their Central Mission” (Bulletin, March 2009) that “supporters of Israeli government policy feel that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism” is both an insult to the intelligence of your readership, who understand that […]

Re: “Universities Are Betraying Their Central Mission,” (CAUT Bulletin, March 2009). I am encouraged by the excellent editorial on academic freedom by Penni Stewart and James Turk, and grateful they have spoken out in support of basic principles, especially concerning […]

Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have voted unanimously to make their scholarly articles available to the public for free on the internet. “The vote is a signal to the world that we speak in a unified voice; that […]

The Bologna Process, under which European governments are attempting to harmonize their college and university systems, is beginning to attract more attention in Canada. Much of the initial reaction has been from those involved in graduate student admissions who have […]

Newfoundland & Labrador Students are applauding New­foundland and Labrador’s 2009 budget for eliminating interest on the provincial portion of student loans and maintaining the freeze on tuition fees. The budget also increased funding for needs-based grants, a program the Canadian […]

Academic staff at the University of Saskatchewan ratified a one-year extension agreement in February. The new agreement extends the 2007–2009 collective agreement to June 30, 2010. Terms of the agreement remain unchanged except for adjustments to salaries, floors and ceilings […]

CAUT executive director James Turk on Parliament Hill March 3 to meet MPs Marc Garneau, Jack Layton & Mike Savage over the 2009 federal budget that shortchanges research. CAUT continues to voice concerns over the Conservative government’s underfunding of research […]

This poster for Israeli Apartheid Week was taken down by staff at Carleton University & the University of Ottawa. Over the past few weeks, CAUT has become aware of a number of disturbing cases in which university administrations have limited […]

Few tenets of academic life are as sa­crosanct as the principle of produc­tivity as monitored by those masters of quality control, the jury of one’s peers. Yet, few principles can be as corrupting of what should lie at the heart […]

Lessons from Cambridge Just as fire regenerates a forest, so a great university regenerates human culture. We burn the rubbish, and create the space for new stuff to grow. Vice-chancellors echo ministers’ vision of the university as a research laboratory […]

Le gouvernement de l’Ontario a eu recours à une loi spéciale pour forcer le retour au travail des grévistes de l’Université York et mettre ainsi fin au plus long conflit jamais vécu par des travailleuses et travailleurs d’université en 30 […]