Bulletin Archive

Strictly speaking, education & instruction are mutually exclusive. You instruct soldiers. You teach students. There are worse things in America: shopping malls, car fetishism, capital punishment, the Government, the abuse of immigrants, torture, the bias towards wealth, the petty, everyday […]

At least two Canadian universities (Toronto and Guelph) have tried over the past year to get faculty to accept flexible benefit plans. So this seems a good time to outline what’s wrong with flex plans. University administrators have a strong […]

As contract academic staff in Canada’s universities and colleges we have been nurtured on the centrality of rational discourse. We earned our advanced degrees and certifications by mastering our fields and by demonstrating that we can contribute to their further […]

Loretta Czernis’ comments in the president’s column (CAUT Bulletin, May 2006) about the Conservative Party’s child care plan suggest she is reading too much into Stephen Harper’s comments. Harper’s remark about child care “experts” is political hyperbole that implies nothing […]

Last month I ran into an old acquaintance I hadn’t seen for quite some time. After a cordial exchange about our respective families, he said: “So, now that the semester is finished and your grades are in, you must be […]

During a roundtable meeting last month with parents and children in Burnaby, British Columbia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the following of his promise of government support on child care: “Do the opposition parties support giving parents $1,200 per child, […]

It is becoming clear from studies published over the last 20 years that mental health and substance use disorders occur more frequently together than as separate entities. Yet most educational institutions offer very few courses that deal with these issues […]

The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967 Volume Two: Political Turmoil Clark Kerr. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003; 458 pp; ISBN: 0-520-23641-6, hardcover $34.95 us. Three centuries after their […]

Warren Allmand’s commentary, We Need Answers on Domestic Spying” (CAUT Bulletin, April 2006), betrays fearmongering at its worst and is a deliberate effort to cause Canadians to distrust their national security institutions. Surely, as a former Solicitor-General of Canada, Mr. […]

Council delegate Robert Leclerc, & observer Geneviève Robichaud (inset, from top) Bob Rupert, Sarah Schmidt & Mike Gasher in a simulated press conference held April 27 in Ottawa. CAUT Council delegates improved their media skills in workshops April 27, working […]

American Association of University Professors president Jane Buck and president-elect Cary Nelson were arrested April 27 in New York City. Buck and Nelson were detained by police for their participation in an act of civil disobedience in support for striking […]

William Bruneau William Bruneau was elected at the spring CAUT Council meeting to succeed Gordon Shrimpton as Speaker of Council starting in November 2006. Shrimpton stepped down after serving for eight years. In one of the several tributes to the […]