Bulletin Archive

Early in the summer, against a backdrop of rising Delta variant infections and increasingly fractious on-campus debates about mandatory vaccination policies for returning students, representatives of the academic staff for the four Greater Toronto Area (GTA) universities hammered out a […]

A.J. of Halifax writes I have students in my class who are not following physical distancing and mask rules. I have raised this with the administration, but nothing has been done. What should I do? David Robinson answers: Provincial occupational […]

By FAISAL BHABHA Students and faculty from a wide array of minority and marginalized communities are challenging universities on many fronts.  Contentious topics include tuition costs, admissions standards, traditions and symbols, culturally responsive curricula, student supports, campus security, accommodations for […]

Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams is a member of the Lil’wat First Nation of Mount Currie, British Columbia. She led the development of Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Indigenous Language Revitalization, and a Master’s in Counselling in Indigenous Communities at the University […]

The Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty Association (MUNFA) is joining with campus unions and student groups to demand that the provincial government reverse cuts to education and keep the province’s tuition freeze, which had been instituted in 1999.  Memorial’s administration […]

The newly released 2021 Shared Governance Survey data from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) provides a “mixed picture” of the role played by faculty in academic governance in the United States, two decades after the release of findings […]

A Statistics Canada study, released on August 18, 2021, highlights the devastating financial impact of COVID-19 on Canadian universities, and the risk associated with reliance on international student tuition revenue. The “Projected Financial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Canadian […]

Andréanne Lavoie is this year’s recipient of CAUT’s J. H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship, an award established to honour the memory of the Association’s first Executive Secretary, and which comes with a $5000 scholarship. Lavoie is pursuing a PhD degree […]

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 […]

By Laura Beaulne-Stuebing The postsecondary education sector is in dire need of federal leadership and long-term planning, according to a policy briefing recently released by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Investing in a Better Future: Higher Education and Post-COVID […]

James Hutt Member Engagement, Organizing and Outreach Officer James brings over 12 years of experience leading organizing and campaigns for unions and non-profit organizations.  As the Campaign Coordinator for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), he led the Delivering […]