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CAUT is soliciting nominations for the 2014-15 CAUT Distinguished Academic Award. The Award is given annually to recognize an academic who has excelled in each of the three principal aspects of academic life: teaching, research, and service to the institution and to the community. The recipient will be an individual whose teaching, research and service […]

The English version follows Le 5 mars 2014 NOTE 14:10 DESTINAIRES : Présidents et agents administratifs Associations fédérées et locales EXPÉDITEUR : James L. Turk, directeur général OBJET : Conférence des francophones de l’ACPPU, du 6 au 8 juin 2014 Hôtel Sheraton, Ottawa L’ACPPU est heureuse d’annoncer la tenue de sa conférence portant sur les […]

Greetings,   The producer for CBC Fifth Estate has just advised us that its long-awaited program on science in Canada will be aired on Friday, Jan 10th at 9 pm.   CBC has been working on this program for a year and has drawn on CAUT. They did interviews in our office and at the […]

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release Monday, December 23, 2013 CAUT and CFS withdraw from Copyright Board Tariff Hearing OTTAWA-The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) announced today that they will withdraw their participation from the Post-Secondary Educational Institution Tariff (2011-2013) hearing before the Copyright Board of Canada. Access […]

Members for CAUT Committees We are asking for your assistance in identifying potential members for CAUT’s Academic Freedom and Tenure; Collective Bargaining and Economic Benefits; Equity; and Librarians’ and Archivists’ committees. We would appreciate names of CAUT individual affiliated or associate members you feel would be interested and would bring expertise to the work of […]

CAUT Statement on December 6 (December 6, 2013) Each year, as we approach December 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, CAUT and its members reflect upon the past year to identify the gains and losses for Canadian women who experience violence in their lives. This past twelve months we […]

Salutations, Attached (see link below) is the letter CAUT sent to each member of the Senate re Bill C-377. Ci-joint est la lettre de l’ACPPU envoyée à chaque membre du Sénat concernant le projet de loi C-377. Cordialement, Jim —————————————————————————————————————- Canadian Association of University Teachers / Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d’université / 2705 […]

Demands grow for release of 2 Canadian academics detained in Egypt Education International, the global union federation representing more than 30 million education workers world-wide, is urging its member organisations to press the Egyptian authorities to immediately release two Canadian professors who have been detained without charges since August 17th. At the request of CAUT, EI is […]

CAUT is soliciting nominations for the 2013 CAUT Distinguished Academic Award. The Award is given annually to recognize an academic who has excelled in each of the three principal aspects of academic life: teaching, research, and service to the institution and to the community. The recipient will be an individual whose teaching, research and service […]

Greetings,   In light of the discussions over the past several days about the secret agreement to privatize digitizing LAC records, I thought you would like to see the article in today’s Ottawa Citizen “Former Library and Archives Canada boss criticizes private digitizing deal.”   Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada Ian Wilson  finds the deal […]