Bulletin Archive

Research ethics boards were never designed for oversight of journalism programs or surveys by sociology majors and have gone well beyond their mandates and purpose, and in the process harming scholarly work, a recent report from the American Association of […]

CAUT president Greg Allain presented a cheque for $100,000 to the University of British Columbia Faculty Association last month to ensure it will be able to keep up its fight for academic freedom and faculty rights in the face of […]

Carleton University academic staff members have voted 96 per cent in favour of strike action in an attempt to reach a new collective agreement. Main issues still on the table are salaries, benefits and workload. The union representing about 750 […]

Brock University faculty and librarians, fed up with stalled contract negotiations and contentious meetings that have stretched for six months, voted 88 per cent in support of a vote authorizing their union executive to call a strike. The Brock University […]

Saint Mary’s University Faculty Union will call a strike if agreement on a new contract with the university can’t be reached in conciliation this month. SMUFU held its strike vote in October, securing yes votes from 88 per cent of […]

Citing budgetary restraint and smart use of money, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government announced a series of spending cuts Sept. 25 of approximately $1 billion over the next two years. The cutbacks were unveiled the same day the government announced it […]

Ontario’s public universities are applying retirement rules differently, leaving some academic staff with no choice but to retire when they turn 65, and others with the choice to keep working. When Ontario enacted a ban on mandatory retirement in December […]

University of Prince Edward Island biologist Larry Hale was elected to a two-year term as president of the CAUT Defence Fund during last month’s board of trustees meeting in Toronto. Hale takes over from Jean-Charles Cachon of Laurentian University, who […]

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Dans ma rubrique d’octobre, j’ai parlé de l’importance de favoriser l’insertion de nos nouveaux collègues dans la vie académique de même que leur intégration dans nos associations de personnel. Ces considérations sont d’autant plus actuelles que l’âge moyen du personnel […]

Les universités publiques de l’Ontario appliquent différemment les règles relatives à la retraite, obligeant ainsi certains membres du personnel académique à prendre leur retraite à 65 ans et laissant à d’autres le choix de poursuivre leur carrière. La loi ontarienne […]

Larry Hale, biologiste de l’Université de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard, a été élu président de la Caisse de défense de l’ACPPU, pour un mandat de deux ans, lors de l’assemblée des administrateurs tenue le mois dernier à Toronto. Il succède ainsi à Jean-Charles […]