Bulletin Archive

The faculty of science at Dalhousie University has recently cut a deal with a private, for-profit educational institution that smacks of little more than a back door for enrolment to the university -- and an expensive one for the university […]

The College Institute Educators' Association wins full access to the rights and benefits of collective agreements for many former temporary faculty. This fall, close to 300 CIEA faculty members who hold temporary positions will be in regular ongoing positions as […]

Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin announced his government recorded an unexpected $12.3 billion surplus for the 1999-2000 fiscal year, but that all of the bounty has been applied to reduce the federal debt. News of the surprise windfall immediately sparked […]

More than 100 faculty members, librarians, and other academic staff from across Canada will descend on Parliament Hill on Nov. 23 to lobby their Members of Parliament about the need for Ottawa to adequately fund post-secondary education and research. The […]

In April, CAUT launched Legal Review a new publication which discusses several different legal aspects of union activities, labour relations, human rights issues, and other relevant topics. Legal Review is available on the CAUT web site www.caut.ca (publications) or at […]

The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women invites papers on scholarly research, action research, commentaries and analyses in either French or English for its publication series Voix Feministes/Feminist Voices. Prior to Mar. 2001, CRIAW is particularly interested in […]

Students and private donors are making up the bulk of the cash shortfall as governments continue to withdraw public funding from the nation's universities, new data reveals. The Canadian Association of University Business Officers and Statistics Canada say only 55.3 […]

On Sept. 18, the Ontario Divisional Court rejected a request from three Trent University faculty members for a judicial review of the Trent board of governor's decision to close the university's two downtown colleges after the senate had rejected the […]

Canadian faculty members are losing the wage race with their American counterparts. In 1995, full-time university teachers in Canada earned about 4 per cent less than all full-time teachers in the United States. By 1999, the difference in average salary […]

The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University & Creating True Higher Learning Stanley Aronowitz. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000; 217 pp; cloth $26 US. As I write this review The Globe and Mail's John Ibbitson reports on the Ontario government's new […]

Scott Sinclair. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2000; 135 pp; paper $19.95 CA. Negotiations now underway in Geneva are designed to subject an ever-greater range of democratic policy-making decisions to oversight -- and possible overturning -- by the World […]

Manning Marable. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000; 353 pp; paper $22 US. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, a leading text for courses in African-American politics and history, has been central to the education of thousands of political activists since […]