Bulletin Archive

The University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) has reached a mediated settlement with the university's governing council. The mediator was Martin Teplitsky. The three-year agreement, ending June 30, 2002, calls for salary scale increases of 1.5%, 2.0%, and 1.5% respectively, […]

La ministre de la Justice, Anne McLellan, a annoncé la mise sur pied d'un comité d'examen chargé de revoir la Loi canadienne sur les droits de la personne pour la rendre plus actuelle et pour améliorer le mécanisme de règlement […]

The Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo and the board of governors have ratified a salary settlement for 1999/ 2000. The one-year deal negotiated under the terms of the memorandum of agreement in place at Waterloo took effect on […]

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 […]

Al King with Kate Braid, Vancouver: Kingbird Publishing, 1998, 176 pp; paper $20 CA. Together with writer Kate Braid, Al King has produced a totally absorbing memoir of a union life in Canada. King retired from Steelworker staff in 1980, […]

R. Bruce Sheppard, Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1997; 176 pp; paper $17.95 CA., $14.95 US. During the settlement era white homesteaders on both sides of the 49th parallel went to considerable lengths to exclude blacks from the region. Black settlers attempting […]

Canadian university and college teachers have been warned about privatization so often they're beginning to think it's a put-up job. A UBC colleague reminded me the other day about the fairy-tale of the boy who cried wolf one time too […]

Pour la première fois, le Conseil des ministres de l'Éducation, Canada (CMEC) a convenu de principes et de grandes lignes pour l'enseignement postsecondaire au Canada. Leur rapport intitulé les Attentes du public relatives au secteur postsecondaire au Canada constitue un […]

Nos universités, notre avenir, voilà le slogan de la campagne de sensibilisation du public dont le lancement officiel est prévu au cours de l'année. «Notre slogan souligne que l'enseignement universitaire est un bien public qui profite à tous. Ce n'est […]