Bulletin Archive

Plans by University College of Cape Breton administrators to cut programs and eliminate positions were put on hold when UCCB's board of governors voted last month to delay a controversial new budget. Board members voted unanimously March 15 to table […]

Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University Sharon E. Kahn & Denis Pavlich, eds. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000; 192 pp; hardcover $75 CA. Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University evolved from a national conference held in April 1997 at the University […]

A leave to appeal application by two Trent University professors, supported by CAUT, over the closure of two colleges has been turned down by the Supreme Court of Canada, ending a lengthy dispute over university governance. Ian McLachlan and Andrew […]

Citing a massive number of retirements in the next decade, the University of Saskatchewan has made a move to attract junior faculty. A one-year deal between the university and its faculty association ratified in January gives all 900 union members […]

Our universities and colleges are facing enormous challenges threatening their ability to serve the public interest. Years of underfunding and rising tuition fees are seriously compromising accessibility. Decline in tenured faculty numbers and crumbling, health-threatening facilities have come at the […]

Babies wield a bizarre, gender-dependent power over academics, according to a recent study completed at the University of California at Berkeley. Researchers found that men who have babies "early" - that is, within five years of receiving a PhD - […]

Faculty members at the University of Saskatchewan have voted to rejoin CAUT, after an absence of seven years. Members of the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association voted overwhelmingly in favour of the affiliation at a general membership meeting April 2. […]

In his world-famous novel A Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombian writer Gabriel GarciaMarquez describes a terrible massacre. It occurred in 1928. The massacre put an end to a successful, and famous, strike by the banana workers in Ciegana Magdalena (Central […]

Vancouver CAUT, the College Institute Educators' Association of B.C., the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association and the Capilano College Faculty Association opened two days of hearings on the future of post-secondary education in Vancouver, March 17, with a keynote address […]

Les membres de l'association des professeurs de l'Université Dalhousie ont déclenché la grève le 4 mar car, disent-ils, l'université ne leur a pas donné le choix. Andrew Wainwright, président de l'association des professeurs de l'Université Dalhousie a déclaré ceci : […]

Le Comité exécutif de la Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université (FQPPU) a été saisi du contenu des lois spéciales 27 et 28 touchant le personnel enseignant de la Colombie-Britannique. Nous sommes très inquiets des incidences néfastes de ces […]

Le nouveau recteur de l'Université du Nouveau-Brunswick s'est dit frustré du peu d'attention accordé aux universités de la région de l'Atlantique par Ottawa et les provinces les plus riches du pays. Le mois dernier, à Fredericton, à la quatrième d'une […]