Bulletin Archive

In the spring of 2015, the federal Conservative government introduced legislation to expand both the maximum payable weeks of compassionate care benefits under EI and the maximum number of weeks of compassionate care leave without pay available under the Canada […]

The fundraising campaign launched by the CAUT Refugee Foundation last fall to help victims of the civil war in Syria was a major success. Thanks to the generous donations of CAUT members, the foundation raised $38,140. The money was sent […]

A recent study by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario paints a favourable picture of job prospects for PhD grads. The study found that one in three graduates with doctoral degrees from Ontario universities have found tenured or tenure-track […]

W.P. Thompson at the University of Saskatchewan Review by William Bruneau Richard Rempel. Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013; 340 pp; ISBN: 978-0-77354-174-0, $49.95 Cad. All indicators suggest biography is as popular in the 21st as in […]

[iStock.com/KarenFoleyPhotography] More than four decades ago at Montreal’s Sir George Williams University, a protest against the administration’s handling of a racial discrimination complaint prompted one of the biggest campus occupations in Canadian history. In 1969, students staged a 14-day sit-in […]

Life as a black Rhodes scholar A BBC interviewer once asked Stuart Hall, the celebrated Jamaican cultural theorist, about his time as a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford in the early 1950s. Had it lived up to his […]

One of the most heartening outcomes of the recent federal election was the fact that Canadian voters for the most part rejected the overt racism and xenophobia of “dog-whistle” politics. Rather less heartening, however, was the realization that so many […]

To achieve equity requires real action, says Malinda Smith Malinda Smith has had her fill of well-meaning policies and symbolic gestures. If universities really believe in equity, they should stop talking about it and do something to make it happen, […]

Multinationals are emptying the pockets of the poor in Ghana Christian Addai-Poku, president of Ghana’s National Association of Graduate Teachers, says the government is cutting off public funding & abandoning the education sector to private interests. In Ghana, everybody’s talking […]

Signe que des élections se dessinent à l’horizon, le gouvernement manitobain a annoncé en janvier qu’il ajouterait 27,9 millions de dollars au budget des collèges et univer­sités de la province. Cette hausse du financement de 4 % portera le total […]

Pour Rani Neutill, une universitaire féministe intervenant auprès de victimes d’agression sexuelle, les mentions d’avertissement ont leur utilité, mais pas partout. D’accord pour les services d’aide et les sites de discussion en ligne, mais assurément pas dans les universités. Mme […]

Des multinationals vident les poches des familles pauvres Le gouvernement est en train de sevrer le financement public et d’abandonner le secteur de l’éducation au secteur privé, explique le président de l’Association nationale des enseignants diplômés du Ghana, Christian Addai-Poku. […]