Bulletin Archive

L'ACPPU pourrait imposer un blâme à l’Université Acadia en avril prochain si la direction et le conseil d’administration de cet établissement ne consentent pas à rétablir dans son poste le professeur d’informatique Colin Wightman. Les délégués à l’assemblée du Conseil […]

L'organisme responsable du Pro­gramme des chaires de re­cher­che du Canada (CRC) a contre­venu aux modalités de l’entente conclue par voie de médiation qui était censée corriger la sous-représentation des groupes aspirant à l’équité dans les candidatures aux chaires de recherche. […]

How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation Marc Bousquet. New York: New York University Press, 2008; 304 pp; ISBN: 978-0814-799758, paper $23 us; ISBN: 978-0814-799741, cloth $70 us. Those of us who work and study in a […]

Charles Cross Bigelow, président de l’ACPPU en 1972-1973 et doyen émérite de l’Université du Manitoba, est décédé le 25 novembre à l’âge de 80 ans. L’apport considérable de M. Big­­elow à l’ACPPU et à ses initiatives en matière de négociation […]

If the past has been an era of leadership, sadly I have to say that we have now moved into the era of, to say the least, disappointment… The post-September 11th mindset has sold human rights short in the name […]

The Canada Research Chairs program has breached the terms of a mediated settlement that was sup­posed to address the underrepresentation of equity-seeking groups in chair appointments. Eight academics from universities across Canada — with CAUT playing a role in lending […]

Membership — UOIT Faculty Association president Raymond Cox took his seat at CAUT Council last month following a unanimous ‘yes’ vote on the resolution to admit his association to the national organization. Full-time faculty represented by the University of Ontario […]

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. […]