Bulletin Archive

Les audiences en comité offriront l’occasion de raffiner l’approche du Canada. « Ce sont de véritables retrouvailles », affirme Carla Graebner, présidente du Comité des bibliothécaires et des archivistes de l’ACPPU. « Il y a dix ans, une puissante coalition […]

À Montréal, le 29 mars 2016, est déc­édé Jacques St-Pierre, ancien vice-président et président de l’ACPPU et professeur émérite de l’Université de Montréal. Pionnier de l’enseignement et de la recherche en statistique mathématique, M. St-Pierre a été l’artisan majeur de […]

In the award-winning 1962 play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, violence and marital discord unfold against a deeply dystopian vision of academic life: one where a university president enjoys unilateral license to prevent publication of a novel he deems inappropriate, […]

Defending academic freedom & collegial governance takes vigilance, says Pum van Veldhoven The Carleton University Academic Staff. Association knows it takes vigilance to defend academic freedom and collegial governance. Just ask the association’s president, Pum van Veldhoven. “Academic staff are […]

[iStock.com / IpgGutenbergukLtd] The participation of academic staff in the governance of universities and colleges has long been seen as a key component of academic freedom. Today, however, collegial governance, and by extension academic freedom, is facing a critical challenge […]

Students graduating from UK universities and entering a hostile global economic climate with tens of thousands of pounds of debt are right to fear for their futures. What they probably don’t realise is that most of the highly qualified experts […]

[iStock.com / AndrewPenner] It turns out that the highest earners in Ontario’s academic sector are the managers of the University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation (UTAM). President and CEO William Moriarty ranked third among the province’s top earners in 2015, […]

On the final scheduled day of medi­ation prior to a looming strike deadline, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Faculty Association and their employer reached a tentative agreement. The agreement includes provision for across-the-board salary increases in each year […]

The 2016 federal budget provided a long overdue boost to Canada’s knowledge infrastructure. “The Liberal government’s first budget is a welcome step,” said CAUT executive director David Robinson. “There is a long way to go to make up for lost […]

For several years now, Canadian universities & colleges have claimed financial shortfalls are demanding cuts & layoffs. Austerity is increasingly the watch-word at post-secondary institutions across the country. But the facts question many of the cries of poverty. Last year, […]

An inquiry into Laurentian University has concluded that senior officials have routinely violated aca­demic freedom and principles of collegial governance. CAUT established an investigatory committee following numerous faculty complaints against the university, including allegations that administrators changed grades without instructors’ […]

[iStock.com / IpgGutenbergukLtd] La participation du personnel académique à la gouvernance des établissements est depuis longtemps considérée comme une composante essentielle de la liberté académique. Or, la gouvernance collégiale et, partant, la liberté aca­démique subissent aujourd’hui les assauts de nouvelles […]