Bulletin Archive

La totalité du personnel académique de l’Université de Sudbury s’est prononcée en faveur d’une mesure de grève en vue d’atteindre les objectifs visés dans la négociation. « Le message passé par nos membres devrait ouvrir la voie à une négociation […]

Canada’s three funding agencies have announced the release of an updated interagency policy statement on ethical conduct in research involving humans. The latest version incorporates editorial and technical corrections, among other changes. A summary of amendments can be found on […]

A CAUT investigatory committee has made a series of recommendations about continuing education programs, following from its investigation of allegations of violation of Dr. Laurent Leduc’s academic freedom at the University of St. Michael’s College (University of Toronto). Leduc, on […]

National post-secondary education faculty unions and associations from more than 30 nations met in Melbourne, Australia for the 5th Education International Conference on Higher Education and Research. Key issues included academic freedom, commercialization, privatization, trade negotiations, security, working conditions, brain […]

Mary Kandiuk, reference librarian at Scott Library at York University, is the recipient of the sixth CAUT Academic Librarians’ Distinguished Service Award. The award, created in 1994, recognizes a librarian or a faculty member for outstanding service in furthering the […]

Academic staff at the University of Sudbury have voted 100 per cent in favour of strike action to achieve bargaining goals. “This message from the membership should help produce meaningful bargaining with the university and a fair settlement,” said local […]

Leona Jacobs, systems librarian at the University of Lethbridge, is CAUT’s visiting scholar for 2006. While at CAUT, she will study research leave provisions for Canadian academic librarians. Her work will examine the availability of leave provisions and their patterns […]

À l’issue de l’enquête qu’il a mené sur la violation présumée de la liberté académique du professeur Laurent Leduc au Collège St. Michael’s de l’Université de Toronto, le comité d’enquête de l’ACPPU a formulé une série de recommandations sur les […]

College Rankings Exposed: Getting Beyond the Rankings Myth to Find Your Perfect College Paul Boyer. Lawrenceville, New Jersey: Thomson Peterson’s, 2003; 240 pp; ISBN: 0-7689-1360-8, hardcover $24.95 US. In the village hall of my prairie childhood, news reels preceded the […]

Mary Kandiuk, bibliothécaire documentaliste à la bibliothèque Scott de l’Université York, a remporté le 6e Prix des bibliothécaires pour services émérites de l’ACPPU. Cette distinction a été créée en 1994 dans le but de reconnaître les services remarquables de bibliothécaires […]

C’est par centaines que les gens ont assisté, le 30 novembre dernier, à la projection du documentaire « Seeds of Change » à la Winnipeg Art Gallery. Produit par les chercheurs Ian Mauro et Stéphane McLachlan de l’Université du Manitoba, […]

After six days of intensive and often acrimonious negotiations, trade ministers from the 149 member countries of the World Trade Organization reached an agreement to restart stalled global trade talks. The deal, struck in the dying hours of the ministerial […]