Bulletin Archive

The Canadian Association of University Teachers is investigating allegations that the University of Toronto bowed to outside pressure in rescinding an offer of employment to an internationally recognized scholar. Following a competitive hiring process, Valentina Azarova was the unanimous recommendation […]

Fiorella Rabuffetti is the winner of the 2020 J. H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship. The award was established to honour the memory of CAUT’s first Executive Secretary and comes with a $5000 scholarship. Rabuffetti, a PhD candidate in the Department […]

A new American study of research on performance-based funding (PBF) in the post-secondary education sector concludes that the policy has very little impact on institutional outcomes. The report examined over 50 studies on PBF published between 1998 and 2020 in […]

Jamie Dunn Director of Organizing and Negotiations CAUT has appointed Jamie Dunn as Director of Organizing and Negotiations. Jamie joins us with over 25 years of experience as a grassroots union activist, elected union leader, public interest advocate, and negotiator. […]

Federal policies create crisis in university research funding Recent federal government policies have clearly precipitated a funding crisis in university research — this despite a century of commitment at Canadian universities to both basic and applied research projects. Canada is […]

As the coronavirus swept across the world in the past few months, another tide — one much longer in the making — was swelling. After the killing of George Floyd last May at the hands of Minneapolis police, the tide […]

The Bentwood Box: carved by Coast Salish artist Luke Marston, the TRC Bentwood Box is a lasting tribute to all residential school survivors. Photo provided by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. On June […]

By Stephanie Ross, Larry Savage & James Watson Are contract faculty better served by faculty associations or by their own separate unions? In our study “Interrogating the Relationship Between Bargaining Structures and Bargaining Outcomes for Contract Academic Faculty in Ontario,” […]

By Vershawn Ashanti Young When the University of Waterloo, where I teach and research, issued a statement to the media saying that the university “unequivocally believes that there is no place for the use of the N-word in class, on […]

By Sara Marzagora & Sara Stevano University workers in 74 UK institutions held a 14-day strike in February and March. The strike was declared by the University and College Union (UCU), which represents 120 000 academics, administrators, IT staff, librarians and […]