CAUT is urging British Columbia's college presidents to respect the collective agreements they have negotiated with faculty or face censure.

The Ontario government has rejected a proposal from Queen's University to allow the provinces' universities to set undergraduate arts tuition fees at whatever levels they want.

On Jan. 30, CAUT president Tom Booth and executive director Jim Turk wrote to B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell protesting his introduction of Bill 28: Public Education Flexibility and Choice Act. The text of the letter follows. — ed.

On Feb. 4, the American Association of University Professors wrote to B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell condemning the legislation that allows college administrators to override key provisions of collective agreements. The text of the letter follows. — ed.

CAUT has appointed Janet Creery to the newly-created position of executive assistant — communications and information

First business, then medicine, then law, and now everyone. The handwriting is on the wall. Tuition at Queen's University is going up again soon, and by a lot. Principal Bill Leggett wrote that deregulation of tuition across our university could be good for us. He claimed that higher tuition has improved medical training, and with a complicated financial analysis, he predicts that further hikes across the entire university need pose no barrier to access.

A former British Columbia Minister of Education and chair of the Council of Ministers of Education Canada is warning the nation's universities and colleges are suffering because of a lack of political leadership and will.

The four retired women professors who launched a civil suit against the University of Toronto are moving into mediation.

After months of negotiations, members of the University of Winnipeg Faculty Association ratified an agreement Jan

The 7,000 member College Institute Educators' Association of B.C. just got a little bigger. On Jan. 11, the 130 members of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Faculty Association became Local 22 of CIEA.

Maureen Shaw, president of the College Institute Educators' Association of B.C. was elected interim president of the National Union of CAUT by representatives of the 12 faculty unions that are members of NUCAUT.

The British Columbia government has unveiled a package of deep cuts in government spending and mass layoffs of public service workers in an attempt to meet its election pledge to cut taxes while balancing the provincial budget within three years.

This year's celebrations of International Women's Week, set to kick-off March 3, will focus on "Working in Solidarity: Women, Human Rights, and Peace."

This study by John Levin, a former Douglas College instructor and B.C. college administrator who is now professor of higher education at the University of Arizona, suggests we need to be vigilant about the "new vocationalism."

At various time in my teaching career — more than ever since Sept. 11 — I have been advised by faculty colleagues that I should avoid being "too political" in the classroom.