Bulletin Archive

Bargaining for the main Laurentian University LUFA-APPUL unit has been paused pending a report by Ernst & Young on the University’s financial situation, a study commissioned by the employer after the start of negotiations. Negotiations were already delayed by a […]

CAUT has joined the fight against Bill 32: Restoring Balance in Alberta’s Workplaces, led by the Alberta Federation of Labour. Bill 32 made significant changes to the Alberta Labour Relations Code and became law on July 29, 2020. “Bill 32 […]

Notice of censure against the University of Toronto passes unanimously CAUT has moved a step closer to censuring the University of Toronto over a hiring scandal in the Faculty of Law. According to a report prepared by the CAUT’s Academic […]

A trio of sessions covered defence of collegial governance, lessons from bargaining remotely, and Francophone associations fighting back; all within the context of the pandemic. Defending Collegial Governance This session discussed administrations’ use of COVID-19 to bypass collegial processes and […]

Jeannette Gaudet receives Bernice Schrank award CAUT awarded Jeannette Gaudet the Bernice Schrank Award, which was established in 2013 to recognize outstanding contributions to the enforcement of academic staff workplace rights through grievance/arbitration. Gaudet devoted 16 years to filling the […]

Merli Tamtik, Roopa Desai Trilokekar, and Glen A. Jones (Editors) McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020; 504 pp; ISBN: 978-0-22800-176-8. By Michael Dudley Nobody who has taught or worked at a Canadian university over the past 10-20 years can have failed to […]

In March 2020, universities and colleges abruptly shut their doors to students and moved instruction on-line in an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Nine months later, the fallout from the pandemic is becoming increasingly visible. International […]

Three reasons why swapping out face-to-face class meetings for online Zoom class sessions is a spectacularly bad idea. By Joshua Kim Higher ed is gorging on Zoom. It's time to go on a Zoom teaching diet. I'm talking about Zoom […]

By Jasmin Zine, Greg Bird & Sara Matthews This summer controversy arose around the hiring of Valentina Azarova as the director of the University of Toronto faculty of law’s international human rights program. Some faculty accused the dean of rescinding […]

Weakening the tenure system: The misuse & abuse of sessional appointments According to Statistics Canada, the number of full and part-time sessional teaching appointments has grown to the point where in 1991-92 there were about 25,000 part-time faculty employed by […]

By Brenda Austin-Smith The first full pandemic term is almost over as I type this column. Looking around the largely virtual post-secondary landscape as classes end and exams begin, what I’ve seen over the last few months is an incredible […]

Liz Morrish is an independent scholar and activist challenging the managerial appropriation of higher education. A visiting fellow at York St John University, she was principal lecturer and subject leader of linguistics at Nottingham Trent University until her resignation in […]