Bulletin Archive

Lors d'une conférence de presse donnée le 29 août dernier, l'Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université a rendu public le rapport d'un comité d'enquête intitulé Rationalization of the Nova Scotia Universities qu'elle avait commandé sur la rationalisation des universités […]

Vers la fin des années 1980 et le début des années 1990, le gouvernement de Nouvelle-Écosse parlait avant tout de compressions budgétaires. Il n'était pas question alors de «contrôle de la qualité». Toutefois, face à une réduction des paiements de […]

... The traditions of collegial academic decisionmaking in a context of the freedom to pursue inquiry wherever it leads without the constraints of received opinion or deference to prescribed doctrine or fear of arbitrary dismissal have served universities in the […]

... On behalf of the members of the University of Calgary Faculty Association, I wish to express our deep concern over your government's refusal to protect academic freedom and free speech for instructors and researchers at the new Technical University […]

I was recently hired into the president's office at TechBC. Some of you may remember me as last year's president of the Dalhousie Faculty Association. I was at Dalhousie for six years, and involved with the faculty association for four […]

The CAUT has no quibble with policies to improve participation rates in post-secondary education. Nor does the CAUT oppose new ways of organizing teaching and research in any field. We would not be opposed on principle to TechBC had the […]

Ireland's New University Act The newly minted Irish Universities Act now guarantees tenure for permanent academic staff and academic freedom for all academic staff -- two of many changes to the legislation vigorously lobbied for by the Irish Federation of […]

This Fall in the House of Commons Federal Finance Minister Paul Martin's proposed reforms to the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans (CPP/QPP) loom large on this fall's parliamentary agenda. Mr. Martin's package also establishes the new Seniors Benefit to replace […]

The University of Victoria provoked a brief and vigorous row when it decided that it would offer an honorary degree to China's President, Jiang Zemin. The decision was made by the Senate in a 26-9 vote. By offering a degree […]

The selection committee for the J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship is pleased to announce that Brian Catlos has been awarded the Fellowship for 1997-98. Mr. Catlos is a PhD student at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his BA […]

CAUT has joined with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the Canadian Consortium for Research, the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, and the Canadian Graduate Council to propose a framework for action to the federal government […]

At first, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Nova Scotia government talked about funding cuts, but not about "quality control." With declining trans-fer payments, the government claimed it had little choice. If health and education were to survive […]