Bulletin Archive

The Nipissing University Faculty Association (NUFA) signed 65 per cent of contract academic staff members and filed an application for certification with the Ontario Labour Relations Board in late November. On Nov. 30, a week after the filing, the Board […]

Collective Bargaining An introductory course directed at faculty association members with little or no negotiation experience. Through a highly realistic simulated round of negotiations the course allows participants to develop bargaining, language drafting and team work skills as well as […]

Peter Robinson College will close as early as next summer, Trent University President Bonnie Patterson told a packed forum on campus Nov. 16. Trent intends to relocate the college on to the Symons campus as part of its Build 2000 […]

Jean Chrétien's Liberals captured their third consecutive majority government by sweeping Ontario and regaining seats in Atlantic Canada and Quebec, but it's a win that leaves the country sharply divided along regional lines and gives the Liberals an unclear mandate. […]

As the end of the first academic term draws near, university students across the country are struggling to meet deadlines and complete assignments. Meanwhile, students at Queen's University are engaged in another struggle — the struggle to defend their right […]

Conference Report About 85 participants attended the biennial CAUT Status of Women Committee conference held at the Windsor Hilton Oct. 26 ­ 28. Keynote opening speaker Maude Barlow set the tone for the conference with her address "Trading It All […]

In early November when dele-gates to the 5th Tri-National Conference for the Defense of Public Education were informed of the recent faculty association strike at Memorial University of Newfoundland support was instantaneous and well articulated. In Zacatecas, Mexico on Nov. […]

Student access to English and Welsh universities has been undermined by the imposition of tuition fees and the ending of needs-tested maintenance grants, according to a recently released report. For the second year in a row, full-time student recruitment targets […]

We cannot let the money-changers dominate our temples of science. No matter how counterintuitive it may seem, basic research remains the lifeline of practical advances. When I reflect on the progress of biomedical science in the past century, I think […]

More than 2,000 members of CUPE local 3903, representing graduate, research and teaching assistants as well as contract faculty at York University have been on strike since Oct. 26. Strikers are fighting for job security for contract staff, protection from […]

Just days before the federal election, representatives of the four main national parties made a last minute pitch to CAUT Council delegates during a roundtable debate on post-secondary education. Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger struggled to defend his party's record, claiming […]

Le gouvernement de l'Ontario a déposé à la mi-octobre un projet de loi pernicieux et très controversé, en l'occurrence la Loi favorisant le choix et l'excellence au niveau postsecondaire. Le projet de loi 132 abroge la Loi sur l'attribution des […]