Bulletin Archive

On September 17, CAUT called on its members and allies to suspend actions related to the censure against the administration of the University of Toronto in response to the its decision to reverse course and re-offer Dr. Valentina Azarova the […]

Academic staff at the University of Sydney have an enforceable right to “intellectual freedom” under the terms of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) collective workplace agreement, the Federal Court of Australia ruled at the end of August. The Court’s […]

Québec’s Independent Scientific and Technical Commission on the Recognition of Academic Freedom in Academia is expected to make recommendations this fall on ways to strengthen academic freedom in the province. Headed by the vice-rector of the Université du Québec à […]

by RACHEL BOLSTAD I want educators to get excited about climate change. That may sound strange. Let me explain. I have been to education conferences and forums recently where climate change was barely mentioned. When it did come up, the […]

by ALEX CRAWFORD In October 2021, policy-makers meet in Glasgow, Scotland to evaluate current efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Aiding that effort will be the Sixth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), […]

CAUT is upholding academic freedom by supporting the Mount Allison Faculty Association (MAFA) in the grievance of Rima Azar, associate professor of psychology. Azar authors a personal blog, under a pseudonym, in which she sometimes makes controversial comments on contemporary […]

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Brenda Austin-Smith President Brenda Austin-Smith was re-elected to a third term as president of CAUT. Austin-Smith, a professor of film studies at the University of Manitoba, has also served on the executive committee as CAUT vice-president (2016 to 2019), as […]