Bulletin Archive

De plus en plus préoccupée par les cas de maladies liées à l’amiante chez les employés de longue date des universités et des collèges canadiens, l’ACPPU a entrepris de mettre en place une base de données nationale sur les maladies […]

Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations: The Changing Role of Higher Education Glen A. Jones, Patricia L. McCarney & Michael L. Skolnik, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005; 313 pp; ISBN: 0-80203-856-5, hardcover $60 ca. Robert Birgeneau, former president of the […]

Increases in university tuition fees are having a devastating effect on low-income families in Canada, says a CAUT report released in June. “It’s shocking that the poorest Canadian families have to devote more than 67 per cent of their after-tax […]

Negotiations are on hold after ministers from a wide range of countries failed to resolve their differences on tariff & subsidy cuts for agricultural & industrial products Negotiations aimed at liberalizing global trade broke down in July after ministers from […]

Michael Piva Michael Piva has joined the staff of CAUT as the association’s third assistant executive director. He took up his duties in July, joining Neil Tudiver and Peter Simpson in assisting member associations with collective bargaining. Prior to joining […]

Greg Allain Le mois dernier, j’ai eu le privilège de participer à la septième conférence bisannuelle de la Coalition of Contingent Academic Labour à Vancouver. Cette tribune tripartite exceptionnelle a permis aux délégués du Canada, des États-Unis et du Mexique […]

The International Labour Organization has adopted a resolution to pursue a ban on asbestos, a substance the organization says is responsible for an estimated 100,000 fatalities a year. The resolution, passed at ILO’s June meeting in Geneva, says the elimination […]

Education ministers from 35 OECD countries gathered in Athens in June to discuss the future of higher education against a backdrop of protests by Greek students and professors angry over a set of government proposals intended to gut Greece’s public […]

With a growing concern about asbestos-related diseases among longtime university and college employees, CAUT has launched its National Asbestos-Related Diseases Database Project. The purpose is to identify the extent of asbestos-related diseases among faculty and staff and to aid in […]

Blair Stonechild An arbitration panel has ruled that the First Nations University of Canada’s board chair violated the academic freedom of professor Blair Stonechild. The University of Regina Faculty Association filed a grievance on Stonechild’s removal as a keynote speaker […]

Last month I had the privilege of participating in the seventh Coalition of Contingent Academic Labour conference in Vancouver. Held every two years, it provides a rare tri-national forum to discuss issues of casualization and the challenges facing contract academic […]

In the June Bulletin, Felipe Fernández-Armesto argues in his commentary “Teaching vs. Instruction” that the educational enterprise should focus less on instruction and more on teaching. In sum, his essay questions the use of the term “instructor” or “instruction” in […]