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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 […]

Elizabeth MacDougall-Shackleton is a biology professor at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and president of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA). The Association and its members are opposing the school’s proposed partnership with Navitas, a for-profit education […]

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By Brenda Austin-Smith This year, during CAUT’s Fair Employment Week, we were joined online by Dr. Liz Morrish, an activist and independent scholar who writes about the managerial appropriation of the university. Dr. Morrish’s talk “A Plague on the University” […]

Following the October announcement by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) to hear appeals in protracted copyright litigation between York University and collective licensing agency Access Copyright, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) will seek to intervene to voice […]

CAUT’s annual Fair Employment Week (FEW) took place online this year with a number of virtual events held across the country. CAUT organized a series of webinars focused on issues that matter to contract academic staff (CAS). Kicking off the […]

CAUT and the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d’université (FQPPU) joined voices with French educators to condemn the murder of a history teacher in France. History and geography teacher Samuel Paty was killed after showing students Charlie Hebdo cartoons […]

CAUT officially joined a coalition of labour and employee associations in challenging Bill 32 in Alberta. The legislation contains several restrictions on the activities of unions that experts say violate Charter rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. […]

Serious concerns about an aborted hiring at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law has led the CAUT Executive Committee to recommend censure proceedings against the administration. The motion for censure will be brought to CAUT Council in late November […]