Bulletin Archive

Many professors dread anonymous student evaluations of teaching (SETs). For too many of them, whether female, on contract, a member of an equity group or, worst of all, all of the above, less than stellar reviews could mean the end […]

Sophie Quigley is a professor of computer science at Ryerson University who specializes in human-computer interaction. In 2009, while serving as the Ryerson Faculty Association’s grievance officer, she grieved the use of faculty course surveys in employment related decisions such […]

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By James Compton — Does your academic institution send you notices about how it strives to be fair in the workplace? I doubt it. But I’m confident you’ve heard about its anti-harassment and discrimi­nation policy, or your university or college’s […]

The government of Ontario’s plan to require the province’s universities and colleges to adopt “free speech” policies and punish those who fail to adhere to the new requirements is an unprecedented interference with institutional autonomy, warns CAUT. “CAUT has long […]

Claire Thomson, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Alberta, has been awarded the 2018 J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship. The fellowship, es­tablished by CAUT, recognizes and funds a graduate student from a Canadian university […]

CAUT has revamped its discount program to meet the professional and personal needs of its members. “Because of our national scope and large buying power, we were able to negotiate the best deals for our members on the front end […]

1924–2018 — Roland Penner, former Manitoba attorney general and CAUT president, died May 31 at age 93. At 19, he joined the army and served in Europe during World War II in the Canadian artillery. After the war, Penner enrolled […]

For decades now, academics have been engaged in a tug-of-war with administrators of universities and colleges over decision-making processes and in ensuring their voices and the voices of other stakeholders are heard. Success has been scarce, but it doesn’t have […]

When Sharon McIvor introduces herself, she is “a First Nations woman and a member of the Lower Nicola Indian Band.” She is also a lawyer recognized not only for teaching excellence at the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in Merritt, […]

Suman Gupta, Jernej Habjan & Hrvoje Tutek (eds). Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; 252 pp; ISBN: 978-1-13749-323-1. by Len Findlay This contribution to the Palgrave Critical University Studies series is as disturbing as it is timely. The global sway and invasive capacities […]