Bulletin Archive

Former Ontario NDP premier Bob Rae, who was appointed by the Ontario government last year to review the province's post-secondary education system, has concluded the system is underfunded. His report, titled Ontario: A Leader in Learning, was released in February. […]

CAUT has called on McMaster University to reverse one of its policies that threatens academic freedom. The policy, adopted by the McMaster senate in 2003, prohibits academic staff from referring to their affiliation to McMaster when expressing an opinion to […]

In 1984, the Canadian Labour Congress declared a National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job. April 28 commemorated the enactment of Canada's first comprehensive Workers' Compensation Act in Ontario in 1914. Observances of the Day […]

At the request of the York University Faculty Association, CAUT has appointed an ad hoc investigatory committee to look into allegations of threats to freedom of expression and to academic freedom at York as well as allegations of inappropriate governance […]

At the end of 2004 CAUT launched its Freedom to Publish campaign based on the need to protect the freedom of academics to publish and disclose risks. This protection can only be achieved by negotiating appropriate language in collective agreements […]

A new book called Institutional Racism in Higher Education (editors Ian Law, Deborah Phillips and Laura Turney), Trentham Press, (was) published (last) summer. It is produced by the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, at the University of Leeds, and […]

We need to carve out a balanced position on copyright. The interests of the entertainment industry and of individual artists and creators are not the same. When Parliament's Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage released its interim report on copyright reform […]

According to an internal government document, the federal government is spending about $1.7 billion less on transfer payments for post-secondary education today that it did a decade ago. Based on provincial spending patterns, Ottawa estimates the provinces are spending $4.5 […]

A study released by Statistics Canada in February shows that female professors have made strong gains in closing the gender gap at Canada's universities in the past decade, but still have a long way to go. The new analysis of […]

James M. Lang. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005; 248 pp; ISBN: 0-8018-8102-1, hardcover $45 US.; ISBN: 0-8018-8103-X, paper $18 US. In this fast-paced and lively account, Jim Lang asks - and mostly answers - the questions […]

Richard V. Ericson & Aaron Doyle, eds. Toronto, Buffalo & London: University of Toronto Press, 2003; 461 pp; ISBN: 0-8020-8760-4, hardcover $70 CA.; ISBN: 0-8020-8563-6, paper $35 CA. Risk and Morality examines how decisions about risk and uncertainty relate to […]

Richard F. Hamilton & Holger H. Herwig. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005; 282 pp; ISBN: 0-521-83679-4, hardcover $60 US; ISBN: 0-521-54530-7, paper $17.99 US. Decisions for War focuses on the choices made by small coteries in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, […]