Bulletin Archive

Marche de solidarité pour les professeurs en grève de l'Université St. Thomas à Fredericton, le 23 janvier. Les cours ont repris le 5 février à l’Université St. Thomas après que les professeurs et la direction eurent convenu de recourir à […]

Solidarity rally for striking St. Thomas faculty in Fredericton January 23. Classes resumed at St. Thomas University Feb. 5 after striking professors and the administration agreed to binding arbitration for any remaining issues under dispute. Faculty association president Suzanne Dudziak […]

Close to 100 academics gathered in Winnipeg earlier this month for CAUT’s first conference for Aboriginal scholars. Navigating the Academy was “a remarkable event,” said CAUT president Greg Allain. “I believe it was the largest gathering ever of Aboriginal academics […]

With the new year upon us, I’d like to start by wishing all CAUT members a very happy, healthy and productive New Year! Individually, may some of our key projects come to fruition in 2008. Collectively, let’s hope we continue […]

York University professor David Noble sought information in February 2004 from Simon Fraser University's university/industry liaison office on SFU's spin-off commercial ventures. In a landmark ruling, adjudicator Catherine Boies Parker from the office of British Columbia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner […]

Scholars do not work to a formal job specification. They do not republish the same piece of research 16 times in slightly altered versions to enhance the size of their CV. Nor do they write to schedules set by auditing […]

The "audit-society" rewards those scientists who dance to its tune, says Peter Lawrence. Too busy working? Two left feet? Too bad. It is fun to imagine songwriters being assessed as scientists are today. Bureaucrats would rank their songs by which […]

[Photo: Jane Jenkins] St. Thomas University locked out its full-time and part-time academic staff units on Dec. 27, and postponed the beginning of the winter term. In a letter to Tom McBrearty, the university’s chairman of the board, CAUT president […]

Debate over reform of Canada’s copyright law heated up in December, causing a major scramble for Industry Minister Jim Prentice and the Harper government. Introduction of long-awaited amendments to the federal Copyright Act that deal with copyright infringement had been […]

En février 2004, le professeur David Noble de l'Université York avait demandé au bureau de liaison université-entreprises de l'Université Simon Fraser (SFU) de lui remettre des documents sur les entreprises commerciales dérivées de la SFU. Dans une décision qui crée […]

En ce début de nouvel an, j’aimerais commencer par souhaiter à tous les membres de l’ACPPU une Bonne et Heureuse année, productive et riche de santé! Que plusieurs des projets clés entrepris par chacun de nous se concrétisent en 2008! […]

L’attaque particulièrement vile menée contre un professeur de l’Université Dalhousie et les membres de sa famille pourrait frapper presque tout le monde consécutivement à l’utilisation malveillante des sites web de réseautage social, met en garde l’association du personnel académique de […]