Bulletin Archive

Victor Sim est décédé à 80 ans le mois dernier, après un combat contre le cancer. Victor Sim est décédé à Ottawa, le 7 décembre dernier, après une brève maladie. Vic a rejoint l’ACPPU en 1973 où il a occupé […]

    À son assemblée de novembre dernier, le Conseil de l’ACPPU a rendu hommage aux deux lauréates du prix Sarah-Shorten 2008, Mmes Audrey Kobayashi et Patricia Demers.      Cette distinction est accordée à des femmes qui ont fait preuve de leadership, […]

Canada leads the world in entry-level academic salaries, says a report by researchers at the Boston College Center for International Higher Education. The Boston College researchers looked at academic earnings at four-year institutions across 15 countries and adjusted salaries based […]

The board of directors and administration of Acadia University face censure by CAUT in April unless they agree to reverse the firing of computer science professor Colin Wightman. Delegates to CAUT’s Council meeting Nov. 29 voted to give notice to […]

[File Photo] Delegates to the CAUT Council meeting in Ottawa last month voted unanimously to censure First Nations University of Canada for its ongoing failure to resolve the serious problems with the governance of the university. “It is with great […]

Although financial considerations can occasionally precipitate a strike, it generally takes some additional matter of principle to lead faculty to walk the picket line, writes Jim Clark. If my elderly mother ever heard I was going on strike, her immediate […]

You will have noticed higher ed­ucation policy played no role during the recent federal election. The platform of the winning Conservatives was silent on the subject. Why seems obvious…the election campaign was increasingly consum­ed by economic crisis and leadership issues. […]

In her reply, Penni Stewart says that “although many young women start out in science and engineering, a disproportionate number drop out and switch fields, suggesting that the climate remains problematic, (Letters, Bulletin, November 2008).” However, the national data for […]

The executive and membership of the Brandon University Faculty Association would like to express their sincere gratitude for the support we received during the recent job action. We cannot express how much it has meant to us. We are grateful […]

Charles Cross Bigelow, CAUT’s pre­sident in 1972–1973 and Dean Eme­ritus of the University of Manitoba, died Nov. 25. He was 80. Dr. Bigelow’s contributions to CAUT and CAUT’s collective bar­gaining initiatives spanned more than 40 years and involved academic staff […]

Hundreds of faculty and students at the University of Alberta have signed letters protesting the administration’s unilateral decision to shut down the Office of Human Rights. They want to know why the office, which for 18 years offered con­fidential advice […]

Walkout could begin this month Nova Scotia College of Art and Design technical and educational resource personnel could walk off the job later this month, after 97 per cent of the union’s membership voted in a strike referendum ballot Dec. […]