Bulletin Archive

Les propositions formulées dans le cadre d’un processus d’examen public en cours au Nouveau-Brunswick pourraient déboucher sur une intégration plus poussée du système d’éducation postsecondaire de la province et sur la mise en place d’un régime de remboursement des prêts […]

My university, like many others, uses a spam filtering service to weed out suspicious e-mail messages. The subject heading of incoming spam e-mail is condemned with the word “SPAM,” to enable receivers to filter these from their inbox. Overwhelmed by […]

L'ACPPU amorcera dès l’automne une vaste enquête sur la charge de travail du personnel académique. Selon James Turk, directeur général de l’ACPPU, « peu d’aspects du milieu universitaire et collégial au Canada se révèlent plus complexes, ou moins bien étudiés, […]

In early February, I was happy to celebrate the inauguration of CAUT’s new office building (see the article and photo in the February Bulletin), located just two doors from our former building, which we’d occupied since its completion in 1994. […]

Selon l’ACPPU, le budget fédéral déposé le mois dernier ne s’attaque pas de front au déséquilibre du financement de l’éducation postsecondaire. Le gouvernement conservateur promet certes d’augmenter de 800 millions de dollars la part du Transfert canadien en matière de […]

The Trent University Faculty Association has claimed victory in a two-year grievance battle with the university that ended April 5. In April 2005, Mark Neufeld and Andreas Pickel, both senior tenured faculty in the political studies department at Trent, were […]

Les gouvernements libéral de l’Ontario et néo-démocrate de la Saskatchewan ont annoncé clairement leurs plans dans les budgets préélectoraux qu’ils ont déposés le mois dernier. Rien pour les étudiants dans le budget ontarienDans le budget du gouvernement de l’Ontario présenté […]

Last month’s federal budget comes up short in fixing the funding gap for post-secondary education, according to CAUT. While the Conservative government is promising to allocate an additional $800 million to the share of the Canada Social Transfer funding devoted […]

Proposals from a government-led review process underway in New Brunswick could see greater integration of the province’s college and university system and a regressive income contingent loan repayment plan for students. The proposals come out of a discussion paper released […]

Laurentian professor Michael Persinger has come under sustained attack from the university administration. The CAUT Academic Freedom Fund has awarded $50,000 to Laurentian University Faculty Association to support its ongoing defence of the academic freedom of psychology professor Michael Persinger. […]

Female academics in Canadian universities have benefited from the work of a variety of feminist activist organizations within and outside the university. These groups have operated under different names — commissions, caucuses, committees — and at federal, provincial, local, university […]

With the euphemism, “workforce adjustment plan” the board of governors at the University of Northern British Columbia recently approved a process to reduce the full-time faculty complement by up to 10 per cent over the next three years. Part of […]