Bulletin Archive

The threat of a strike that could have closed Brock University has been averted. After weeks of steady negotiations and a last-ditch marathon session with a mediator, Brock and its academic staff reached a two-year agreement Dec. 6 that halted […]

The Association of Professors of Bishop’s University held an extraordinary general membership meeting last month in response to a pattern of unusual employer demands in a set of negotiations underway for contracts for the three bargaining units represented by APBU. […]

Carleton University and its academic staff reached a three-year collective agreement in the early morning hours of Nov. 15, narrowly averting a strike that would have started later that day. The new deal, ratified late last month by Carleton’s board […]

Paul Cavalluzzo (top), Thomas Walkom & Warren Allmand speak to CAUT Council delegates Nov. 24 in Ottawa. The Maher Arar case has civil liberties implications for all Canadians, according to a panel of experts who spoke at CAUT’s November Council […]

CAUT welcomed last month’s settlement of a discrimination complaint brought more than three years ago against a federal government research program. CAUT president Greg Allain said the settlement agreement, a blueprint for reform of the Canada Research Chairs Program, is […]

Over the past four decades, the unusual pressures to which universities have been subjected have seen them undergo slow and subtle, but in the long run deeply subversive, changes. During her long tenure, Margaret Thatcher insisted that higher education’s main […]

I wrote in my October column about the importance of integrating newly-hired colleagues into academic life and our academic staff associations. These concerns are even more timely in the context of a rising average age of academic staff and with […]

<img alt=" Vindicated! Maher Arar with his wife Monia Mazigh, who led the campaign for her husband’s release. Photo: Bill Grimshaw/grimshawphoto.com." title ="maher-arar-web.jpg"data-displaymode="Original"src="/images/default-source/bulletin/maher-arar-web.jpg?sfvrsn=0"sfref="https://www-archive.caut.ca/images/default-source/bulletin/maher-arar-web-jpgc6ef-6d38-9810-ff00005eecd3" /> Vindicated! Maher Arar with his wife Monia Mazigh, who led the campaign for her husband’s release. […]

Greg Allain’s article “Challenges Facing New Academics” (Bulletin, October 2006) somewhat alleviates the depressive mood I have been in since my return to my regular duties from a productive and happy field season. In the field I felt elated, able […]

Academic staff in British Columbia are calling on the provincial government to suspend operations at Lansbridge University following revelations that owner Michael Lo was illegally offering degrees at a sister school in the province. The Vancouver Sun reported last month […]

Le personnel académique des établissements postsecondaires de la Colombie-Britannique appelle le gouvernement provincial à suspendre les activités de l’University Lansbridge à la suite des révélations selon lesquelles le propriétaire Michael Lo offrait illégalement des grades à une école affiliée de […]

Invoquant la nécessité d’un resserrement budgétaire et l’utilisation rationnelle de l’argent public, le gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper a annoncé, le 25 septembre dernier, une série de compressions des dépenses de l’ordre de 1 milliard de dollars sur les deux […]