Bulletin Archive

Four retired professors have scored a precedent-setting victory by obtaining a settlement of their equity claim against the University of Toronto. While terms of the settlement remain confidential, about 60 retired female professors, who were excluded from the university's 1989 […]

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters Frances Stonor Saunders. New York: The New Press, 1999; 509 pp; paper $18.95US. In 1962 a British Broadcasting Corporation humour program carried a news parody of the […]

The University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have agreed to a settlement in the highly-publicized case of Dr. David Healy. Healy launched a lawsuit last year against the university and the centre alleging his employment […]

Carleton University's Academic Staff Association has voted to join the National Union of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (NUCAUT), becoming the thirteenth association to do so. Carleton joins Bishop's, Memorial, Mount Saint Vincent, Cape Breton, Mount Allison, York, Windsor, […]

In response to the Olivieri committee of inquiry recommendations, CAUT Council revised procedures for handling of academic freedom complaints. "The new procedures allow for a more expeditious handling of complaints and a greater range of options to get matters effectively […]

The 2002 Status of Women Conference is entitled Gender Equity - From Graduate Student to Professor Emerita. It will be held in Montreal Oct. 24-26. Both Ursula Franklin, retired scientist from the University of Toronto and Mary Eberts, legal counsel […]

Queen's University Faculty Association members voted overwhelmingly April 16 to accept a new collective agreement. The three-year agreement includes a scale increase of 2.7 per cent the first year and 2.5 per cent the second year. The scale increase for […]

Digital technology is allowing the private publishing industry to usurp the role libraries have traditionally played in providing access to knowledge, warned a keynote speaker at CAUT's librarians conference. "The future of libraries is hanging in the balance," said Ross […]

The University of Sudbury is poised to implement a controversial document of Vatican dictates on the acceptable scope of academic inquiry and Catholic university structure. "These are changes of a magnitude that is staggering," Laurentian University Faculty Association's chief steward, […]

The government of British Columbia is pressing ahead with controversial changes to the province's post-secondary education system by announcing plans to extend degree granting status to existing public colleges and institutes and to allow the accreditation of private universities. "We […]

By the time you read this column CAUT will have a new president. Over the past two years, the association has encountered and dealt with a wide range of challenges and developments. Our accomplishments have been many. In this time […]

The board of governors at the University College of Cape Breton voted April 26 to reject the proposed budget presented to them by university president Jacquelyn Scott by a vote of 15-13. The rejection followed concerted efforts by students and […]