Bulletin Archive

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 […]

Rapidly rising tuition fees in the past decade have meant students are paying for less while access to university and college is becoming more fragmented along income lines, concludes a new CAUT report. The study, University & College Accessibility: How […]

CAUT is warning that Nova Scotia's proposed Bill 20, the Government Restructuring Act, represents a potentially unprecedented violation of university autonomy and academic freedom. "If it applies to universities, Bill 20 would lead to an unacceptable political influence over the […]

CAUT will be co-hosting a major international conference on online education Nov. 2­4 at the Delta hotel in downtown Montreal. Joining CAUT in sponsoring the conference are the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université, the Canadian Federation of Students, […]

The federal Liberal government is undertaking a sweeping study to find ways to improve Canada's research and development capacity, but sources say the initiative needs more work. Industry Minister Brian Tobin and Human Resources Development Minister Jane Stewart are taking […]

CAUT has registered strong objection to proposals to dismantle the federal government's policy that gives Canadians and permanent residents first consideration for academic jobs at Canadian post-secondary institutions. CAUT president Tom Booth and executive director Jim Turk met last month […]

Dr. Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal, has resigned from his position as professor of medical journalism at the University of Nottingham to protest the institution's links with British American Tobacco. The university has accepted a £3.8 million […]

Stronger than expected economic growth last year pushed the federal surplus to a record $15 billion, but Finance Minister Paul Martin says none of that windfall will go to repairing Canada's social infrastructure. In his economic statement delivered in Ottawa […]

Tomorrow's Cures Today? How to Reform the Health Research System Donald R. Forsdyke. New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000; 174 pp; hardcover $38 US. This compilation of previous publications from the 1980s and 1990s, together with some new chapters written […]

The discourse analysts out there will notice first in my title the syntactic fracture from what has now become the fluid "Technology Mediated Instruction." That is intentional. I want to focus on both the action of mediation and the attempts […]

CAUT has signed agreements with its counterparts in Australia, New Zealand and the Irish Republic allowing individual affiliated members working temporarily in these countries to hold special member status of the host organization. The agreements, approved by CAUT Council in […]

Council delegates voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution on commercial and privately funded activities in public post-secondary education institutions. The motion reaffirms that CAUT supports and will work towards a publicly governed post-secondary education system which is primarily financed through […]