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Les délégués à l'assemblée du Conseil de l'ACPPU ont décidé par une majorité écrasante d'adresser des critiques à l'Université York parce que celle-ci a négligé de fournir promptement une aide juridique à un politicologue de l'université qui avait reçu signification […]

A new collective agreement covering faculty members at the University of Manitoba was ratified May 10. The deal, restricted to compensation issues, was reached without third party intervention. The three-year agreement calls for an increase to salary scales of 3 […]

La première conférence nationale de l'ACPPU sur la sécurité des employés et l'hygiène du travail est venue confirmer les sérieuses difficultés auxquelles sont confrontés les universités et les collèges au Canada, selon l'agente de santé et de sécurité au travail […]

Les membres du corps professoral de l'Université du Manitoba ont ratifié une nouvelle convention collective le 10 mai dernier. L'entente, portant exclusivement sur les questions de rémunération, a été conclue sans l'intervention d'un tiers. L'accord de trois ans prévoit une […]

C'est avec soulagement que les étudiants de la Simon Fraser University (SFU) ont accueilli la décision de l'université de prendre ses distances vis-à-vis du nouveau programme controversé de prêts privés. La société FirstStudentLoan (FSL), basée à Toronto et à Vancouver, […]

After almost a year of waiting for the University of Toronto to comply with a 2003 settlement negotiated between the university and physics professor Kin-Yip Chun, a CAUT independent committee of inquiry has decided to proceed with its investigation of […]

With a federal election set for June 28, CAUT has launched a national campaign aimed at ensuring post-secondary education is a key issue on the minds of voters. "This federal election gives us the opportunity to focus public attention on […]

Composers across Canada are understandably upset over the hiring recently of a non-Canadian composer at the University of British Columbia's school of music, says the president of the Canadian League of Composers. "As far as I'm concerned, UBC passed over […]

Students at Simon Fraser University are celebrating the university's decision to back away from a controversial new private loan program. FirstStudentLoan, a company based in Toronto and Vancouver, had approached SFU officials earlier this year with a plan to provide […]

A task force investigating faculty recruitment and retention at Canadian universities says administrators must do more to attract and retain new scholars. The task force, established three years ago by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, thinks […]

With a federal election set for later this month it is critical that Canada's academic electorate gets involved. It is up to us, as academics, to ensure post-secondary education issues are a key focus in the campaign. This will be […]

Susan C. Boyd. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2004; 392 pp; ISBN: 0-89089-127-3; paper $37 US. This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the impact drug law and policy have on women in the U.S. compared with women […]