Bulletin Archive

The curbing of free expression in academia and the media will be the subject of a national conference sponsored by CAUT Nov. 1-3 at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa. The conference will be cosponsored by Canada's largest union of […]

I would like to add to Patrick Grassick's excellent article "A Few Thoughts About Sessionals" (Commentary, Bulletin, May 2002). In September 2001 after having worked part-time since 1998 in the Quebec CEGEP system, I entered the Ontario university system as […]

University College of Cape Breton president Jacquelyn Scott tendered her resignation May 14, informing the board of governors she would be stepping down June 30, to return to faculty. Scott began holidays and a paid leave May 17. She had […]

Four years after fleeing to Canada and seeking refugee status with CAUT's assistance, former Ethiopian Teachers' Association acting general secretary Mulatu Mekonnen has received his landed immigrant papers. "It has been a terrible experience for Mulatu," said former CAUT president […]

Rising tuition fees and government cuts have compromised the accessibility and quality of post-secondary education, according to participants at a public hearing held in Calgary last month. Peggy Churchward, past president of the Canadian Federation of University Women said high […]

Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State Stephen McBride. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2001; 188 pp; paper $19.95CA. For the past quarter century Canadians have been mired in a complex process of fundamental change that progressively has eroded, if not erased, […]

Frank H.T. Rhodes. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2001; 265 pp; hardcover $29.95US. Is the university a dinosaur: huge, lumbering, endearing in its own way, yet unsuited to today's world? Is it a thing of the past, unnecessary in […]

Janet Gail Donald. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002; 330 pp; hardcover $35US. In colleges and universities, there is increasing demand to help students learn how to conceptualize, analyze and reason. Although the intellectual development of post-secondary students is gaining increased attention, […]

Supporters of Quebec's proposed legislation on same-sex civil unions are celebrating as Bill 84 makes its way through the final stages in the National Assembly. McGill professor of social work Shari Brotman says "the legislation creates something as similar to […]

Voices from the Classroom: Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Janice Newton, Jerry Ginsburg, Jan Rehner, Pat Rogers, Susan Sbrizzi & John Spencer, eds. Toronto: Garamond Press, 2001; 373 pp; paper $29.95CA. Teaching at the university level is […]

I was on faculty at Trent University during the recent struggles there. These struggles concerned the dismantling of Trent's college system, and, more significantly, the role of external corporate and political interests in university governance. As members of CAUT no […]

Règlement du litige sur les pensionsà l'Université de Toronto Questions d'égalité : Ursula Franklin (avant à gauche) et Blanche van Ginkel(avant à droite), professeures à la retraite de l'Université de Toronto, ontintenté des poursuites. Quatre professeures à la retraite ont […]