Bulletin Archive

The CAUT Defence Fund board of trustees voted at their annual meeting Oct. 18 to provide financial assistance to member associations that incur costs associated with mediation or interest arbitration (including final offer selection) in the settlement of contract negotiations. […]

The International Labour Organization, the UN body responsible for upholding international labour standards, has ruled that section 63.1 of Ontario's Labour Relations Act, which requires unionized employers to post and circulate information on trade union decertification in the workplace, violates […]

Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education Derek Bok. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003; 256 pp; hardcover $22.95 US. Commercialization of universities inevitably has consequences. Some are beneficial, for example, knowledge, services, or devices that would […]

L'ACPPU a créé un comité d'enquête chargé d'examiner la question de la liberté universitaire pour les administrateurs universitaires. Le comité est présidé par Bill Bruneau, professeur émérite à l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique et membre du Comité de la liberté universitaire […]

Voici revenu le temps de l'année où les médias d'information tentent d'évaluer les universités en leur attribuant un carnet de notes ou un classement. Nouveau venu parmi les " faiseurs de listes ", le Globe and Mail a publié en […]

Le mois dernier, plus de 40 000 universitaires dans toute l'Australie ont déclenché une grève de 24 heures qui a pratiquement stoppé les activités des 38 universités publiques du pays. Les professeurs d'université protestaient contre l'intention du gouvernement d'abolir leurs […]

A student at McGill University is challenging a controversial new rule requiring all students to submit essays to a U.S.-based for-profit company that checks papers for plagiarism. Jesse Rosenfeld, a second-year student in McGill's international development program, received a zero […]

La contestation fondée sur la Charte se poursuit en novembre La Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants attend de connaître la date à laquelle elle comparaîtra devant la Cour supérieure de justice de l'Ontario pour contester la décision du gouvernement […]

It's that time of year again when news media attempt to assess universities by way of "report cards" or "rankings." We have already seen a new addition to the ranks of list-makers with the publication in October of the Globe […]

À son assemblée annuelle du 18 octobre, le conseil d'administration de la Caisse de défense de l'ACPPU a décidé de fournir une aide financière aux associations membres qui ont recours à la médiation ou à l'arbitrage par convergence d'intérêts (y […]

Professors and librarians at Carleton University gave their faculty union steering committee an unprecedented mandate to call a strike - now set for Oct. 20. In a heavy turnout, more than 94 per cent of academic staff voted to authorize […]

Most Canadian university research libraries continue to fare badly according to the latest report of the Association of Research Libraries on "Holdings of University Research Libraries in U.S. and Canada." Fourteen Canadian institutions were included among the 114 surveyed. While […]