Bulletin Archive

Depuis plusieurs années, l'ACPPU se penche sur les services offres à la retraite. Des représentants de l'ACPPU ont assité aux réunions de professeurs à la retraite convoquées à l'occasion du congrès des sociétés savantes à Montréal puis à celui tenu […]

Le Comité de la liberté universitaire et de la permanence de l'emploi (CLUPE) de l'ACPPU a révisé les méthodes à suivre lors de la création de comités d'enquête. Le Conseil de l'ACPPU a approuvé en mai la politique révisée, dont […]

The Year in Review Educators in Canada's post-secondary institutions have a lot to respond to these days. Cuts in federal transfers are working their way through the system and most provinces are passing those cuts down to post-secondary institutions and […]

Lessons from York University On May 14 the academic staff at York University ended the longest strike in an English-speaking university in Canada by a vote of 74.9 per cent and in a separate ballot voted "no confidence" in their […]

Council honours Kanatia for 25 years of service This year marks the 25th year that Kanatia Consulting Inc. has been providing life, accident and professional property insurance plans for CAUT members. In recognition of this, CAUT Council honoured Mr. Jim […]

1997 Ontario Budget While the promotion of research and development in Ontario should be encouraged, the R&D Challenge Fund announced by the Ontario government in the May 6 budget is an inappropriate use of public funds. It confuses two public […]

International Conference on Academic Freedom, Politics and the Future of the University celebrates Don Savage's 27 years of service as CAUT Executive Director. On May 2, the CAUT celebrated Don Savage’s twenty-seven years of service as Executive Director with a […]

I am writing with reference to the article by Sandra Bruneau that appeared in the Status of Women Supplement of the April 1997 issue of the Bulletin, under the title "Whither Jill? A Reply to Andrew Irvine on Affirmative Action." […]

Daniel Soberman, emeritus professor at Queen's University was awarded the Milner Memorial Award at the May 1997 CAUT Council meeting. The award was established by CAUT in honour of James Milner, a former chairperson of the Academic Freedom & Tenure […]

Sandra Bruneau’s article "Whither Jill? A Reply to Andrew Irvine on Affirmative Action" (1997 SWC Supplement) contains a careless and unfair accusation about Professor Irvine which deserves a response. I am in a good position to provide one. Specifically, Dr. […]

CAUT has been examining services provided for its retired members during the past several years. CAUT representatives have attended meetings of retired faculty members which were convened at the time of the learned societies in Montreal and at Brock University. […]

Sandra Bruneau’s discussion in the April Bulletin of Andrew Irvine’s paper on equity and discrimination in university hiring (Dialogue XXXV, 1996) shows a fine capacity for ferreting out what Irvine "assumes," "suggests" and "hints" between the lines. But since one […]