Bulletin Archive

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 […]

Nova Scotia's record in post-secondary education has dropped it to last place in the latest annual provincial ranking published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The CCPA report "Missing Pieces: An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-secondary Education" judges the […]

A coalition of community and international development groups has launched a campaign to warn Canadians about the dangers posed by the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) to medicare. Governments of the Americas, with the exception of Cuba, are […]

Lors d'un forum national tenu à Ottawa le mois dernier, on a conclu que les droits de scolarité exorbitants éloignaient de plus en plus des Canadiennes et Canadiens qualifiés des universités et des collèges et qu'ils influaient sur le choix […]

En novembre dernier, l'ACPPU a émis une déclaration sur une intervention militaire possible en Iraq par les États-Unis et ses alliés. Nous avons exprimé l'opinion selon laquelle le Canada devrait demeurer fidèle à un processus de négociation des Nations Unies […]

Le bilan de la Nouvelle-Écosse en enseignement postsecondaire l'a fait glisser au dernier rang du classement annuel provincial rendu public récemment par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives. Le rapport du CCPA intitulé " Missing Pieces: An alternative guide to […]