Bulletin Archive

A government report is recommending that faculty and student researchers be stripped of ownership of any intellectual property they produce and their discoveries and inventions turned over to the private sector. Commenting on the final report of the Expert Panel […]

Professor Ursula Franklin, one of Canada's most distinguished scientists, will be the keynote speaker at the opening of CAUT's conference, "Universities and Colleges in the Public Interest: Stopping the Commercial Takeover of Post-Secondary Education." The focus of the conference, to […]

The conference "Academic Values in the Transformation of American Medicine," sponsored by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and held last month in Boston, raised a host of problems affecting medicine practiced in universities and teaching hospitals. A panel […]

Dans une lettre bien sentie adressée au ministre John Manley la semaine dernière, le président de l'ACPPU, Bill Graham, lui a recommandé vivement de mettre un terme au rapport controversé prônant une plus grande commercialisation des résultats de la recherche […]

Directeur de la politique officielle et des communications David Robinson a été nommé au poste de directeur de la politique officielle et des communications. Il est titulaire d'une maîtrise en communications de l'Université Simon Fraser et d'un baccalauréat de l'Université […]

Charles Bigelow, universitaire chevronné de l'Université du Manitoba et militant de longue date du mouvement syndical dans le milieu universitaire canadien, est le premier lauréat du prix Donald-C.-Savage. Le prix a été créé dans le but d'honorer des personnes qui […]

Il y a quelques années, le gouvernement fédéral a réduit de façon importante les transferts aux provinces pour la santé, l'enseignement postsecondaire et l'aide sociale. Malgré les augmentations récentes, ces transferts ne sont pas revenus à leur niveau de 1994-1995. […]

In a strongly worded letter to Industry Minister John Manley last week, CAUT President Bill Graham called on the minister to stop a controversial federal report advocating increased emphasis on the commercialization of university research. This followed CAUT Council's unanimous […]

David Robinson has been appointed to the position of Director of Public Policy and Communications. Mr. Robinson holds a M.A. from Simon Fraser University in Communications and a B.A. from Queen's University. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Carleton […]

Charles Bigelow, Senior Scholar at the University of Manitoba and longtime veteran of the union movement among Canadian academics is the first recipient of CAUT's Donald C. Savage Award. The award has been instituted to recognize individuals who have made […]

Shaheen Hirani has been appointed to the position of Staff Lawyer. Ms Hirani has been working for CAUT on a limited-term basis as a lawyer since May 1998. Her new appointment is on a permanent basis. Ms Hirani was called […]

On behalf of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, as well as our co-religionists in Iran, I am writing to thank you and your colleagues in the association for the interest and concern you have shown in the fate of the […]