Bulletin Archive

Mark William Roche. Notre Dame Press, 2017; 88 pp; ISBN: 978-0-26810-146-6. by Alan McGreevy Realizing the Distinctive University is a distillation of Mark William Roche’s accumulated knowledge and perspectives from his 11 years as dean of the college of arts and […]

Briony Lipton & Elizabeth Mackinlay. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017; 128 pp; ISBN: 978-3-31940-077-8. by Penni Stewart It’s been more than three decades since the creation of women’s studies programs, harassment policies and affirmative action programs. Yet gender inequality persists. Although women […]

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 There’s a useful adage in political communication — if your opponent is responding to your narrative frame you’re doing something right. In fact, you might call it a form of flattery. This admittedly counterintuitive thought occurred to […]

Natalie Zemon Davis est professeure d’études médiévales, professeure auxiliaire d’histoire et d’anthropologie et agrégée supérieure de re­cherche en littérature comparative à l’Université de Toronto. Chercheuse, auteure et militante à l’esprit visionnaire, elle a écrit huit livres et est conseillère historique […]

By James Compton There’s a useful adage in political communication — if your opponent is responding to your narrative frame you’re doing something right. In fact, you might call it a form of flattery. This admittedly counterintuitive thought occurred to […]

On Feb. 27, Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled the 2018 federal budget, which provides record new investments in basic science. “CAUT urged the government to act on the recommendations of its science review panel that called for significant reinvestment in […]

January’s forum for presidents in Ottawa was well attended with representatives from CAUT member associations taking advantage of the opportunity to touch base with peers from across the country. The five-week strike by Ontario college faculty in 2017 was a […]

Nearly 60 activists from across the country gathered in Ottawa in February for CAUT’s third francophone conference. The meeting focused on austerity and its impact on francophone teachers, researchers and students, as well as French programs and courses in French. […]

Howard McCurdy, longtime Member of Parliament and former president of CAUT (1967–1968), died Feb. 20 at age 85. McCurdy studied at the University of Western Ontario, Assumption University, and Michigan State University, earning a PhD in micro­biology and chemistry. He […]