Bulletin Archive

n mid-May, the status of women committee of the University of Toronto Faculty Association co-sponsored a culture of peace symposium with CAUT to celebrate the International Year for the Culture of Peace. Events held at the OISE/UT site over a […]

Media baron Rupert Murdoch and his giant News Corporation company have reached a deal with the 18-member university network Universitas 21 (which includes McGill University, the University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia) to offer online programs and […]

Statistics released last month by the Council of Ontario Universities show that the gaps in university funding between the provinces continue to grow and that Canadian universities are increasingly falling behind their American counterparts. Ontario, Canada's richest province, ranked second […]

The Canada Research Chairs program may mean black holes at other universities and create a two-tier status system among Canadian universities. The Canada Research Chairs program (CRC) is just offshore – and the first wave will hit our universities in […]

Recent initiatives by the Ontario and Alberta governments to tie post-secondary funding to how many graduates quickly get jobs may be well-intended but they are seriously misguided. First and foremost, they misdiagnose employment gaps as primarily an educational problem rather […]

The release of Our Schools/Ourselves is slated for fall 2000. The education journal Our Schools/Ourselves, which suspended publication last year, will be re-launched this fall as a publication of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The journal provided a forum […]

es données publiées par Statistique Canada montrent que les échelles salariales universitaires entravent le recrutement de professeurs hautement qualifiés. Dans toutes les tranches d'âge, seulement le tiers des titulaires de doctorat qui ont déclaré des revenus d'emploi en 1995-1996 travaillent […]

In a report released last month, Statistics Canada says the so-called "brain drain" of highly skilled Canadians to the United States remains small in an historical sense, small in relation to the supply of workers in sensitive occupations, and is […]

On May 25 the B.C. Labour Relations Board issued a decision which confirmed the University of British Columbia Faculty Association as "the sole collective bargaining agent for a unit which includes both sessionals and faculty." In its ruling, the board […]

CAUT is supporting three Trent University faculty members seeking judicial review of a Trent Board of Governors' decision to overrule the university's senate. The issue arose from Trent president Bonnie Patterson's proposal to close the university's two downtown colleges, sell […]

Canada's university libraries are conspicuous victims of provincial and federal underfunding of post-secondary education. The annual survey by the Association of Research Libraries found that only 11 university libraries suffered a decline in total expenditures between 1993­94 and 1998­99 – […]

After a year and a half of talks and the first special meeting of the McGill senate in more than a decade, senators are no closer to approving a new policy on intellectual property rights for faculty. On May 31 […]