Bulletin Archive

I was pleased to see that the December CAUT Bulletin gave coverage to the University College of Cape Breton's bizarre practice of requiring deans to provide the University President Jacquelyn Scott with undated letters of resignation as a condition of […]

It's all eerily familiar. The secret negotiations, the public saber-rattling, and the endless trial balloons -- federal and provincial negotiations over the structure of the Canadian Confederation have once again grabbed headlines. And in the process, a once obscure term […]

The story of UBC professor Patricia Marchak and her dispute with German educational authorities is now in its final chapter. The dispute began when Professor Marchak, while at the University of Augsburg as a visiting scholar, refused to sign a […]

There are a number of incentives currently available to Canadian taxpayers concerning Y2K computer problems. They include the following: (1) There is a 100 per cent deduction on computer hardware and software purchased by small, unincorporated businesses between January 1998 […]

CAUT President Bill Graham describes government action as gross violation of UN Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights. CAUT President Bill Graham condemned the attempt by the Government of Iran to shut down the Bahá'í Institute of Higher Education […]

Conference session examines equity & women in science. Concerned with the continuing under-representation of women in science, The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council struck a Task Force on Women in Science in Engineering, chaired by Dr. Monique Frize, in […]

It's a crisis CAUT has witnessed firsthand. Across the country, Canada's post-secondary education system is struggling. Deep cuts in federal transfer payments and provincial cutbacks have resulted in average tuition fee hikes of 55 per cent since 1994. Underfunding has […]

The federal budget of 1998 effected several changes in income tax law. The following budget sampler highlights certain changes that academics as individuals, employees, parents, consultants and retirees might review before submitting their 1998 income tax returns. It should be […]

CAUT honourary life member J. Percy Smith passed away on December 10 at the age of 84. Dr. Smith taught English at the University of Saskatchewan before being appointed as CAUT's second executive secretary in 1964, a position he filled […]

Mount Allison University has seen three strikes in the seven and a half years since Ian Newbould was named president and the praise and adulation heaped on him by Board Chair James Keith can't cover up that dismal record. The […]

Ayant comme objectif de consolider les liens avec des collègues d'autres pays, le Conseil de l'ACPPU a approuvé une recommandation du Comité de direction d'adhérer à l'Internationale de l'éducation, un organisme regroupant des syndicats, des associations d'enseignants, ainsi que des […]

Diane Huberman-Arnold, de l'Université d'Ottawa, a reçu le prix Sarah-Shorten 1998 lors de l'assemblée du Conseil de novembre. Mme Huberman-Arnold est membre de l'association des professeurs à temps partiel de l'Université d'Ottawa. Les efforts qu'elle a déployés et les réalisations […]