Bulletin Archive

Most people would not welcome a diagnosis of a brain malformation requiring surgery. But for Nicole Wilson, it was the missing piece of a puzzle that finally clicked into place with a snug and satisfying fit. “My diagnosis changed everything, because […]

CAUT Council delegates voted April 26 to accept the membership application of the newly-formed Renison Association of Academic Staff, representing 35 regular faculty at Renison University College, affiliated with the University of Waterloo. Earlier this year the board of governors […]

Aidan Seery, president of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, told CAUT Council on April 27 that the economic crisis of 2008 accelerated the transformation of the Irish higher education sector into a neoliberal tool at the service of the […]

On Jan. 12, 2018, after 1,154 days spent languishing in a prison in France, Hassan Diab, a dual Lebanese-Canadian citizen, was released without ever having faced a trial. French authorities finally concluded that there wasn’t a case against him and […]

Jim Clark at the University of Winnipeg writes Although it would seem reasonable that analyses of equity issues should have objectivity and lack of bias as major values, these qualities were certainly not obvious in the April 2018 issue of […]

Dr. Frances Henry is professor emerita at York University and a pioneering researcher and leading expert in the study of racism and anti-racism. She and a team of social science colleagues recently focused their research on racism within their own workplaces, […]

Source: UCASS 2016, Census 2016, CUSC 2017

By James Compton “All of this has happened before and will happen again.” Fellow science fiction lovers will recognize this quote taken from the early-2000s reboot of Battlestar Galactica. Without going too far down the Sci-Fi rabbit hole, the line […]

CAUT has appointed an ad hoc investigatory committee to look into the case of psychology professor Rick Mehta at Acadia University. Mehta is being investigated by the university for his classroom and social media conduct, including allegations he used his […]

CAUT has written to Iran’s leader protesting the death of an Iranian-Canadian university professor who was arrested and accused of spying by Iranian authorities. Kavous Seyed Emami, a duel-Canadian citizen, was ar­rested in late January, and died within weeks in […]

Post-secondary institutions have claimed for decades that they are committed to equity and diversity, but their prin­cipled stand still falls short. There is progress for women, and more Aboriginal and racialized academics are working in our universities and colleges, but […]