Bulletin Archive

The overall level of stress in academic staff employed in Canadian universities is very high, according to a new study released this month by CAUT. The study’s findings are consistent with similar studies of stress among academic staff in the […]

Acadia University faculty members took to the picket lines Oct. 15 after the university and the Acadia University Faculty Association failed to reach a tentative contract agreement before a union-imposed deadline. Classes have been suspended but the campus remains open. […]

University of Manitoba administrators and the university’s faculty union tentatively agreed on a new three-year contract Oct. 14, four days before faculty planned to walk off the job. Details of the deal were not available by press time. U of […]

A security guard checks a student’s bag at the U of W Sept. 25. Tight security continued for days as the campus faced a shooting threat. [Photo: Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press, Sept. 28, 2007, reproduced with permission] The […]

After the vote — CAUT president Greg Allain meets with history instructor Elizabeth McGahan and AUNBT’s vice-president for Saint John Regena Farnsworth Sept. 6. Contract academic staff are swelling the ranks of the Association of University of New Brunswick Teachers […]

Doctoral students Bénédicte Fontaine-Bisson (left) and Jacqueline Kennelly have both been awarded CAUT’s 2007-2008 J.H. Stewart Reid Fellowship. The fellowship, given by CAUT to honour the life and work of the association’s first executive secretary, provides financial assistance of $5,000 […]

Cindy Oliver (right) who chairs CAUT’s contract academic staff committee, was the impetus behind CAUT’s resolution. She’s seen here at the EI World Congress with Margaret Flomo, national president of the National Teachers Association of Liberia. Teachers and educators from […]

CAUT on the Move (Part 4) Another academic year is starting, and I hope it will be a happy and fruitful one for each and every one of you, as well as for CAUT as a whole! I also want […]

On-campus daycare may have future at University of Lethbridge. [Photos.com] University of Lethbridge Faculty Association members voted overwhelmingly this summer in favour of opening childcare services on campus. ULFA president Steve Ferzacca said the union membership voted in June to […]

Simon Fraser University officials issued an apology July 25 over the handling of the appointment of the J.S. Woodsworth chair in 2001. [File Photo] Simon Fraser University has acknowledged it made mistakes and expressed “sincere regret” to David Noble over […]

Whenever I feel skeptical, as I occasionally do, about whether I can truly have an impact on my students’ educational experience, I need only reflect on my own undergraduate experience and the teacher who changed my life. I then feel […]

CAUT will host its first conference on aboriginal post-secondary education in Winnipeg, Feb.1-3, 2008. The conference will focus on challenges faced by aboriginal educators and on ways of responding to those challenges. Speakers will address an array of issues, including […]