Bulletin Archive

A resolution on academic freedom proposed by CAUT and the University Teachers Association of Ghana was passed unanimously by delegates to the 8th World Congress of Education International (EI) in Bangkok in July. The motion calls upon the global federation […]

Elizabeth McCallion, a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship. The award was established by CAUT to honour the memory of the Association’s first Executive Secretary and comes with a $5000 scholarship. McCallion […]

The Canadian Association of University Teachers is raising concerns about academic freedom at the Maritime College of Forest Technology in New Brunswick following the recent dismissal of two teachers. Wildlife biologist Rod Cumberland was fired from his teaching post on […]

On October 7, Statistics Canada is launching the Survey of Post-secondary Faculty and Researchers. The survey will be in the field for two months and is sponsored by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Innovation, Science and Economic Development […]

Henry Reichman. John Hopkins University Press, 2019; 376 pp; ISBN: 978-1-42142-858-1 by Len Findlay Just as we have much to learn in Canada from our southern neighbour’s historical and current populist travails, we also have lots to learn from the […]

J.D. of Fredericton writes: I’ve been approached by a student who wants to record my lectures. I’m uneasy about the request for intellectual property and privacy reasons. Do I have to agree? David Robinson answers: If the request stems from […]

It was a long journey, beginning more than 16 years ago, with many twists and turns along the way. But in July of this year, the federal government announced that a new settlement was reached to ensure greater equity in […]

Christine Overall is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and holds a University Research Chair at Queen’s University. She has won awards for both her teaching and her research, in feminist philosophy, bioethics, and philosophy of religion. The author of six books […]

By Brenda Austin-Smith How long does it take to change the academic awards system for the better? A long, long time, apparently. In late July of this year, there was a quiet announcement of a settlement between eight academics from […]

By Brenda Austin-Smith “A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. A society must see to it that intellectual opportunities are accessible to all on equable & […]