Bulletin Archive

Sylvie Frigon. Montréal : les éditions du remue-ménage, 2003; 160 p.; 19,95 $CAN (cartonné). Sylvie Frigon analyse les dossiers de femmes condamnées à la peine de mort au Canada entre 1866 et 1954 pour avoir tué leur mari. À la […]

Queen's adjunct-ones have voted 76 per cent in favour of joining Queen's University Faculty Association as a separate bargaining unit. Richard Greenfield, president of the faculty association, said the association is "thrilled" to see such a "clear and positive endorsement" […]

According to history professor John Jeffries Martin, "it simply takes more time to research and prepare a manuscript on Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War or the Umayyad dynasty of the early Islamic world than one on Alfred Hitchcock or John […]

On Dec. 11, 2002 CAUT wrote to Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham raising concerns over the treatment of Canadian citizens caught up in the U.S. National Security Entry-Exit Registration System. NSEERS, which passed into law on Sept. 11, 2002, requires […]

Skyrocketing tuition fees are keeping more and more qualified Canadians away from universities and colleges and are affecting the career choices of those that do go, concluded a national forum held in Ottawa last month. The forum, organized by the […]

Hidden Academics: Contract Faculty in Canadian Universities Indhu Rajagopal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002; 330 pp; hardcover $65 CA., paper $27.50 CA. I became involved in advocacy work on behalf of part-time faculty in 1999 after working as a […]

Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Propert Corynne McSherry. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press, 2001; 275 pp; hardcover $29.95 US. Barely 15 years after some perceptive scholars sounded the alarm on the challenges posed by […]

Mount Allison Faculty Association has applied to certify a new bargaining unit of contract academic staff. The union began collecting signatures this spring, and is now waiting for a response from the New Brunswick Industrial Relations Board. The new unit […]

The Simon Fraser Student Society brought together 200 faculty members and students from across Canada in April for a major conference on academic freedom and the public interest. In his opening speech, CAUT executive director James Turk told delegates that […]

Full-time and contract academic staff at Augustana University College voted unanimously to certify in a representation vote conducted this month by the Alberta Labour Relations Board. "Obviously we're extremely pleased by the count," said AUC Faculty Association president Gerhard Lotz, […]

McMaster University's senate has approved a controversial policy banning faculty members from making reference to their positions at the university if they express opinions that are "unrelated to (their) area of academic and professional expertise." "This is a serious threat […]

An experienced group of faculty association grievance officers is ready to take CAUT's Grievance Handling Workshop on the road. In March, Rick McGaw (New Brunswick), Bernice Schrank (Memorial), Steven Stack (Wilfrid Laurier) and Alistair Tilson (Carleton) completed a weekend training […]