A CAUT investigatory committee has found that Acadia University acted inappropriately in firing a tenured full professor at the university, who also held the positions of director of the university’s school of computer science and acting dean of science.

Unprecedented interference by the govern­ment of Newfoundland and Labrador in the year-long search for a new president of Memorial University is a threat to the institution’s autonomy and the academic freedom of its staff, charges CAUT.

Female students and academic staff continue to suffer inequities despite numerous reports documenting the problems and decades of policy, administrative and regulatory initiatives to resolve them.

Some traditionalists will be more exercised at the intrusion of postmodernism into candidates’ an­swers and examiners’ marks.

The National Union of CAUT has established a new award to recognize members who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of equity in the post-secondary community.

The widespread use of headhun­ters to recruit and select university leaders may be doing more harm than good, even as the number of post-secondary institutions employing search firms continues to rise, a new report has revealed.

A conservative network of aca­demics and students in the Uni­ted States has launched a new initiative calling for volunteers to help “keep watch” over American colleges and universities.

A professor’s 2006 complaint about York University’s practice of cancelling classes on Jewish holidays will proceed to mediation in mid-September, but the case may be more-or-less moot by that point.

The academic staff union at the University of Sudbury reached a tentative agreement with the administration, nine days into a strike.

It seems the mathematicians don’t believe the numbers, at least when it comes to bibliometrics. That’s according to a report released by the International Mathematical Union, which warns that the increasingly prevalent reli­ance on statistics is quite simply “unfounded.”

A survey on research ethics among publicly-funded U.S. scientists has exposed higher than expected rates of misconduct and serious underreporting issues, sparking questions about the effectiveness of self-regulation.

A diligent Greek-Libyan scholar is credited with making an enormous and complete catalogue of the ancient Library of Alexandria. That catalogue, like the library itself, disappeared from view well before 600 CE.