Bulletin Archive

CAUT Council has established a new foundation to carry out education and research on the role of post-secondary teaching and research in contemporary society. Named the Harry Crowe Foundation, after the person whose academic freedom case gave rise to the […]

CAUT executive director James Turk has met with federal foreign affairs officials to express concern over the treatment of Canadian citizens travelling to or through the United States. "Various U.S. laws, regulations and policies - mostly in the aftermath of […]

CAUT and the Canadian Federation of Students are launching a national campaign this month to highlight the impact of skyrocketing tuition fees on access to post-secondary education in Canada. The two groups are organizing a national forum on access to […]

Universities across the United States say they are facing increasing government pressure not to publish some research because of claims it might be used by terrorists. University officials say the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Defense, in […]

Now that the Romanow Report has underscored the resolve of most Canadians to keep our public health care system public, this might be the moment to do the same for that other venerable Canadian institution, our public universities. Two months […]

L'ACPPU et la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants donnent ce mois-ci le coup d'envoi à une campagne nationale pour mettre en évidence les effets des droits de scolarité exorbitants sur l'accès aux études postsecondaires au Canada. Les deux associations […]

Les délégués à l'assemblée de novembre du Conseil de l'ACPPU ont fixé de nouveaux objectifs pour l'association en décidant d'accorder la priorité à la santé et à la sécurité au travail. À compter du prochain exercice financier, l'ACPPU dotera son […]

Wendy Robbins, professor of English at the University of New Brunswick and vice-president, women's issues, of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) will join CAUT as a visiting scholar for the 2003-2004 year. Her work will […]

L'ACPPU a nommé Manmohan (Mick) Panesar au poste d'adjoint de direction, communications et information. Mick est diplômé de l'Université Carleton (B. Eng. 1993, B.A. 1997) et de l'Université d'Ottawa (B. Ed. 2001). Avant de s'ajouter au personnel de l'ACPPU, Mick […]

At the end of November, CAUT filed a submission with the federal Pay Equity Task Force, established by the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Labour, "to make recommendations as necessary and appropriate to clarify the way in which […]

Juridiquement, les renseignements personnels sont mal protégés en milieu de travail, ce qui menace la liberté universitaire. Voilà la mise en garde qu'ont faite les spécialistes en droit relatif au respect de la vie privée, Valerie Steeves et Eugene Oscapella, […]

In a dramatic and unprecedented move, all 77 of Italy's university presidents resigned last month to protest the latest round of steep budget cuts they say are jeopardizing the country's higher education system. "People must be made aware that universities […]