Bulletin Archive

by Brenda Austin-Smith My association, the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA), went on strike for the second time in five years in November. The issues were the provincial government’s imposition (for the third time in five years) of a […]

Around the world, academics and researchers are subject to attacks by both state and non-state actors. Through its Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, Scholars at Risk (SAR) responds to these attacks by identifying and tracking key incidents, with the aim of […]

CAUT has issued an urgent appeal to academic staff associations and their members to support at-risk Afghan academics. As the Taliban moves swiftly to target trade union activists, journalists, civil society leaders, and academics – with women, ethnic and religious […]

A report published this past fall in the United Kingdom warns of a mental health crisis facing the country’s university and college staff. The report by Education Support, with support from the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU), says over half […]

After months of refusing to turn over key financial documents to Ontario’s auditor general, the Laurentian University administration has been given a deadline of February 1st to comply by Ontario’s legislature. The Laurentian University Faculty Association (LUFA) is welcoming this […]

by AYESHA AHMAD, GUNTARS ERMANSONS, HANNA KIENZLER, CORNELIUS KATONA, AND SIMON GOODMAN For those of us who work with Afghan researchers, the events of 15 August — the day Afghanistan’s presidential palace fell to the Taliban — can be replayed […]

Joe Berry and Helena Worthen Pluto Press, 2021, 320pp; ISBN: 978-0745345529. By Sarika P. Bose Joe Berry and Helena Worthen’s book, Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education, has been published as part of Pluto […]

Earlier this fall, a McMaster University research team published the findings of a broad survey that sought to take the temperature of the university and college workplace almost a year-and-a-half into the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the major findings won't […]

Melanie Newton and Deborah Cowen are members of CensureUofT, a group of academic staff at the University of Toronto who successfully organized after CAUT imposed a censure on U of T in April 2021. The censure was in response to […]

CAUT staff retirements Deborah Belsher and Lynn Braun CAUT wishes to extend congratulations and gratitude to Deborah Belsher and Lynn Braun, who retired in December, after 32 years of dedicated service.

Censure against the University of Toronto lifted unanimously Council delegates unanimously voted to formally lift the censure against the administration of the University of Toronto. The Council determined that the University had taken the actions recommended by CAUT to resolve […]