Bulletin Archive

The Association of Professors of Bishop's University set a strike deadline for 12:01 a.m. on Monday, March 15, after 10 months of negotiations for its full-time and part-time bargaining units. In February, members of both units voted more than 86 […]

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education focused on the "unusual governance system" in place at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, the responsibility for decision-making on all matters academic and non-academic falls to administrators and faculty. All […]

We've heard much about the increasing reliance upon definite-term contract faculty by universities and the resulting separation of teaching and research functions. Also emerging as a result of this separation is the use of contract, non-tenure-track employees to fill undergraduate […]

The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled Jan. 27, 2004 that maternity and parental leave provisions fall within the jurisdiction of provincial governments and exceed the exclusive federal jurisdiction over employment insurance. On Feb. 23, after intensive lobbying by labour and […]

'Long & difficult negotiations' yield a good first contract. Members of the University of Prince Edward Island Faculty Association voted Feb. 13 to ratify their first collective agreement with the university, which was reached after more than two years of […]

On March 4, 2004, CAUT president Victor Catano and executive director James Turk wrote on behalf of CAUT to the Canadian Senate raising concern over Bill C-7: The Public Safety Act. Alarmed at measures contained in the legislation, CAUT is […]

There were some important income tax changes proposed in the Feb. 18, 2003 federal budget. Among the more significant tax measures affecting individuals for the 2003 filing season were the following: Increasing the RRSP contribution limit to $14,500 for 2003, […]

William Tordoff. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002; 352 pp; ISBN: 0-253-21545-5; paper $22.95 US. This new updated edition provides comprehensive coverage of Africa's contemporary politics and is set in a clear historical context, with a wealth of illustrative […]

Gerald W. Hankins. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2003; 216 pp; ISBN: 0-88864-405-1; paper $24.95 CA. Gary McPherson contracted life-threatening polio during the epidemic of 1955 which left him a quadriplegic. He retains just enough coarse movement in his […]

Steal this University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement Benjamin Johnson, Patrick Kavanagh & Kevin Mattson, eds. New York & London: Routledge, 2003; 265 pp; ISBN: O-415-93484-2; paper $28.95 CA. Faculty unionization in the United […]

In the late 1990s the anti-sweatshop movement broke out into a mass movement on college campuses across the United States. Linked to labour, consumer, faith-based and other groups, the movement, now with more than 200 campus chapters, is the most […]

Un article paru récemment dans The Chronicle of Higher Education portait sur le " système de gouvernance inhabituel " en place à l'Université de Cambridge. Dans cet établissement, la responsabilité de la prise de décisions sur les questions universitaires et […]