Bulletin Archive

The press both in British Columbia and across the nation gave great prominence this summer to the sexual harassment case involving Liam Donnelly, the 29-year-old swim coach at Simon Fraser University. The University first fired Mr. Donnelly for sexual harassment […]

La Technical University of British Columbia ne garantira pas la permanence des professeurs. Leur rôle dans l'orientation de l'enseignement et de la recherche n'est pas assuré. Le milieu universitaire a recouvert de nuages l'horizon de la plus jeune des universités […]

Les universités n'ont jamais été totalement libres ni entièrement autonomes. Vers la fin du Moyen-Âge et au début de la Réforme, les universités étaient sur leur garde, craignant l'intervention des rois et des papes. Même au début du dix-neuvième siècle, […]

Technical University of B.C. Canada's newest university is under an academic cloud as the result of a boycott by the national organization of university professors. In an advertisement placed in the Vancouver Sun and the Globe and Mail, the Canadian […]

CAUT has been one of the leaders in lobbying UNESCO to adopt an international statement on the rights and responsibilities of teachers in higher education. The proposed recommendation will be before the general convention of UNESCO in early November. The […]

On July 16 CAUT sent the following letter to His Excellency Daniel T. Arap Moi, President of Kenya: The Canadian Association of University Teachers is appalled by the recent closure of the University of Nairobi and by the violent attacks […]

We, members of the Canadian Association for Responsible Research Funding, feel compelled to draw attention to a dismal state of university research funding in Canada. The problem in our opinion is not so much of "money shortage" but of an […]

Conference Report About 40 delegates gathered from across the country recently to participate in the 20th Annual Collective Bargaining Conference at Val David, Quebec. Both collective bargaining training and policy workshops were offered over the five days of the conference […]

New Zealand's Universities University staff in New Zealand are shocked at the content of a leaked briefing document prepared by Government of New Zealand officials for the ministers of Education and Finance. The document outlines an integrated package of reforms […]

University Research Last fall CAUT joined with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and the Canadian Consortium for Research to propose a series of policy recommendations to the federal government to deal with the funding crisis in university […]

The long hot summer has been a little longer and a lot hotter for officials at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. They have spent the latter part of June and July fending off accusations of bureaucratic and political meddling […]

Last January CAUT joined with six other organizations representing university administrations and students to call for improved federal funding of student aid. Drastic cuts to federal transfers and provincial government parsimony have caused average student debt loads for those who […]