Bulletin Archive

Robert Prichard, ex-recteur de l'Université de Toronto, estime que les universités devraient dépendre moins de l'État et profiter des forces du marché pour maintenir leur autonomie. Prenant la parole à l'assemblée annuelle de la Société canadienne pour l'étude de l'enseignement […]

CAUT marked the 50th anniversary of its founding in 1951 with special events at the 50th Council meeting held in April. Guest appearances by former presidents Howard McCurdy (1966­68), Ken McGovern (1982­83), Pamela Smith (1988­90), William Bruneau (1996­98) and former […]

Robert Prichard, former president of the University of Toronto, says universities should rely less on the state and embrace the forces of the marketplace in order to maintain their autonomy. Speaking to the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for […]

SSHRC report released outlining the future of the humanities in Canada. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has released the report of a working group struck two years ago to recommend ways to strengthen humanities research and education in […]

Le tout nouveau Comité sur l'équité de l'ACPPU a tenu sa première réunion en personne à la Ryerson Polytechnic University au mois de mai et a accueilli son plus récent membre, Piet Defraeye, militant homosexuel et professeur de théâtre à […]

Female researchers are being overlooked by the Canada Research Chairs program, according to CRC's own statistics presented last month during the 70th annual Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at Laval University. Program administrators provided data disaggregated by gender […]

Le gouvernement libéral fédéral entreprend une vaste étude en vue de trouver des solutions pour améliorer la capacité de recherche et de développement du Canada. Selon nos sources, cependant, le projet aurait besoin d'être approfondi. Le ministre de l'Industrie Brian […]

The following exchange took place on a wharf in Tofino, British Columbia, between a Nuu-chah-nulth teenager and a local elder. The teenager was on his way home from high school. The exchange takes place in the Nuu-chah-nulth language and is […]

Les surplus serviront uniquement à la réduction de la dette publique et au contrôle des dépenses. Grâce à la croissance économique de l'exercice précédent, plus forte que prévue, le gouvernement fédéral affiche des surplus records de 15 milliards de dollars. […]

CAUT's newly established Equity Committee held its first face-to-face meeting at Ryerson Polytechnic University in May and welcomed its newest member, Piet Defraeye, a gay activist and drama professor from the University of Alberta. "The committee is made up of […]

CAUT's Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee launching an investigation into rejection of David Noble's appointment at Simon Fraser University. CAUT's Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee has appointed an independent committee of inquiry to investigate events at Simon Fraser University concerning […]

On May 9, after two days of intense bargaining, Mount Saint Vincent University Faculty Association reached a tentative agreement with the university. The three-year contract provides scale increases of an estimated 7.44 per cent -- 2.5 per cent retroactive to […]