Bulletin Archive

Le mois dernier, dans le cadre d'une journée de lobbyisme national organisée par l'Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université (ACPPU) et la fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université (FQPPU), plus de 60 professeurs et universitaires des collèges et […]

More than 60 university professors and academic staff from across Canada called on Ottawa to boost funding for post-secondary education as part of a one-day national lobby day organized by CAUT and the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université […]

Where do you go to network, read about and dialogue on issues affecting women? On March 21, CTV's morning show, Canada AM reported: "it's official: more women than men use the Internet." Statistics Canada does not appear to agree. Its […]

The vast majority of Canadian parents want their children to get a college or university education, but most families have been unable to save the money needed for post-secondary schooling, concludes a new report from Statistics Canada. The parents of […]

Acadia University Faculty Association submitted its application for certification of a new bargaining unit last month. The proposed unit includes all contract academic staff members providing instruction in credit courses, including courses taught by distance education. Dianne Looker, AUFA's president, […]

A coalition of organizations, unions and activists across the U.S. and Canada have banded together to designate Oct. 28 ­ Nov. 3, 2001 as Fair Employment Week. The campaign about contract academic staff will be a week of coordinated action […]

This is regarding the article "How the Loss of Trust Led to the Breakdown of Collegiality" by Jeremy Richards (Bulletin, March 2001). While I agree with most parts of this article, I take issue with the statement: "By all reports […]

On March 21, 2001, the University of Saskatchewan signed an historic employment equity agreement subject to the supervision of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. In 1996, five members of the sociology department filed a sex discrimination complaint against the University […]

CAUT's newest educational course "Bargaining Team Training" was introduced in Vancouver at Simon Fraser University April 9 ­ 11, 2001. Twenty participants from faculty association bargaining teams at the University of British Columbia, University of Northern B.C., Simon Fraser University […]

After a 10-year hiatus CAUT revived its legal conference in Ottawa earlier this year for an audience of almost 40 labour lawyers, faculty association staff lawyers and grievance officers. Organized to address legal issues facing academics today, The Ambit of […]

On March 30 Queen's University Faculty Association ratified a one-year compensation settlement. Members of the bargaining unit will see improvements in both salary and benefits through April 30, 2002. Highlights of the agreement include a two per cent salary scale […]

Five universities have joined the London School of Economics in announcing plans to splinter from Quality Assurance Agency inspections. University College London and the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Birmingham are the latest institutions to reject QAA assessments as […]