CAUT's Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee has appointed an independent committee of inquiry to investigate events at Simon Fraser University concerning the decision not to appoint David Noble to the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in Humanities.

Rapidly rising tuition fees in the past decade have meant students are paying for less while access to university and college is becoming more fragmented along income lines, concludes a new CAUT report.

CAUT will be co-hosting a major international conference on online education Nov. 2­4 at the Delta hotel in downtown Montreal.

CAUT has registered strong objection to proposals to dismantle the federal government's policy that gives Canadians and permanent residents first consideration for academic jobs at Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Stronger than expected economic growth last year pushed the federal surplus to a record $15 billion, but Finance Minister Paul Martin says none of that windfall will go to repairing Canada's social infrastructure.

The discourse analysts out there will notice first in my title the syntactic fracture from what has now become the fluid "Technology Mediated Instruction." That is intentional. I want to focus on both the action of mediation and the attempts to steer discussion away from that action. "Technology" must therefore be put at the end of a title to be made strange (which, for most of us on the inside of education, it is).

CAUT has signed agreements with its counterparts in Australia, New Zealand and the Irish Republic allowing individual affiliated members working temporarily in these countries to hold special member status of the host organization

Council delegates voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution on commercial and privately funded activities in public post-secondary education institutions. The motion reaffirms that CAUT supports and will work towards a publicly governed post-secondary education system which is primarily financed through public funds. CAUT is opposed to the replacement of public funding sources with private funding sources and will actively work to secure adequate public funding. Where post-secondary education institutions and any of their affiliated institutions opt for private funding involvement, it is imperative that private involvement is screened against guidelines that protect the integrity of public education institutions and academic freedom. Such guidelines should ensure that relationships with private funders do not undermine the primacy of the public interest in post-secondary education. Over the next few months, CAUT will develop guidelines for reviewing private funding involvement which include the need for policy and procedures to govern private funding arrangements, respect for existing collective agreements, educational integrity, accountability, integrity of the governance process, ethical issues, equity and inclusiveness, fiscal priorities and responsibility, and research.

Delegates to CAUT's Council meeting in April voted to condemn the Alberta government's unprecedented move to grant the DeVry Institute of Technology, a for-profit, U

The Association of Nova Scotia University Teachers, a provincial federation representing the faculty associations of Acadia University, the Atlantic School of Theology, Mount Saint Vincent University, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Saint Francis Xavier University, the University College of Cape Bre-ton and Université Saint-Anne, was welcomed into CAUT membership at CAUT's April Council meeting

CAUT marked the 50th anniversary of its founding in 1951 with special events at the 50th Council meeting held in April

Robert Prichard, former president of the University of Toronto, says universities should rely less on the state and embrace the forces of the marketplace in order to maintain their autonomy.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has released the report of a working group struck two years ago to recommend ways to strengthen humanities research and education in Canada.

Female researchers are being overlooked by the Canada Research Chairs program, according to CRC's own statistics presented last month during the 70th annual Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at Laval University.

The following exchange took place on a wharf in Tofino, British Columbia, between a Nuu-chah-nulth teenager and a local elder. The teenager was on his way home from high school. The exchange takes place in the Nuu-chah-nulth language and is here translated into English. It is the mid 1950s.

CAUT's newly established Equity Committee held its first face-to-face meeting at Ryerson Polytechnic University in May and welcomed its newest member, Piet Defraeye, a gay activist and drama professor from the University of Alberta.

On May 9, after two days of intense bargaining, Mount Saint Vincent University Faculty Association reached a tentative agreement with the university.

CAUT is warning that Nova Scotia's proposed Bill 20, the Government Restructuring Act, represents a potentially unprecedented violation of university autonomy and academic freedom.

The federal Liberal government is undertaking a sweeping study to find ways to improve Canada's research and development capacity, but sources say the initiative needs more work.

Dr. Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal, has resigned from his position as professor of medical journalism at the University of Nottingham to protest the institution's links with British American Tobacco.