Bulletin Archive

CAUT has launched a review of the Canada Research Chair program, now in its fifth year. In addition to surveying academic staff associations across the country on their experiences with the program at their universities, CAUT will be sending a […]

Thank you for your recent coverage of University Canada West (Bulletin, September 2004). However, I feel compelled to set the record straight. To say that UCW was approved "despite criticism from B.C.'s academics" ignores the fact members of the province's […]

David Strong's letter presupposes that the process and criteria used by the B.C. Degree Quality Assessment Board (DQAB) are sufficient to judge the quality of a degree program or of a new university. The Confederation of University Faculty Associations of […]

Lawyers and leading legal scholars are urging Canada's Minister of Public Safety to immediately stay the removal of any person to a country where they face a serious risk of torture or persecution, and to reform the security certificate process […]

I was in Winnipeg recently for a western regional meeting of local faculty associations. I woke up in the Winnipeg Sheraton Oct. 15 and found the National Post at my door. I could not help but notice the front page's […]

This article tells a story - one based on 30 years' experience teaching and conducting research at various Canadian universities, as well as one in Nigeria, and another 10 years as a student in England, Canada and France. My experience […]

Higher education students in British Columbia honed in on the provincial government's unwillingness to reduce education costs, delivering a 38,000-name petition to the Victoria legislature last month that called for tuition fees to be reduced. The Liberal government ended a […]

Howard Pawley was elected president of the Harry Crowe Foundation at its directors meeting in October. Pawley, a former president of the University of Windsor Faculty Association and former premier of Manitoba will head the charitable foundation set up to […]

More than 60 academic staff from faculty associations across Canada will gather on Parliament Hill Nov. 25 to meet with their Members of Parliament as part of CAUT's annual National Lobby Day. The faculty and librarians will describe to MPs […]

Les professeurs et bibliothécaires de l'Université de Moncton ont voté à 56,6 % en faveur d'un nouveau contrat de travail de quatre ans survenu en septembre. « Malgré toutes les tentatives d'ébranler notre syndicat de la part de l'employeur, nous […]

L'ACPPU a octroyé la bourse commémorative J.H. Stewart Reid de 2004 à Chris Cutler, étudiant inscrit au doctorat de l'Université de Guelph. L'ACPPU lui a remis la bourse de 5 000 $ pour ses travaux sur le développement de l'agriculture […]

Selon une récente étude de la Commission de l'enseignement supérieur des Provinces maritimes (CESPM), l'augmentation des frais de scolarité et la hausse des niveaux d'endettement diminuent les chances d'un plus grand nombre d'étudiants qualifiés dans les Maritimes de poursuivre des […]