Nancy Olivieri has been honoured by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with its Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award “for her indefatigable determination that patient safety and research integrity come before institutional and commercial interests.”

A human rights panel has struck down the default retirement age at the University of Prince Edward Island, saying the forced retirement of three employees at age 65 was discrimination under the province’s Human Rights Act.

The Association of University of New Brunswick Teachers and the university administration are to appear before a conciliation board after months of face-to-face contract negotiations for full-time faculty have fallen through.

Faculty at Ontario’s 24 community colleges voted narrowly to accept a three-year contract offer from college management last month that their union, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, had urged them to reject.

Post-secondary education has become a key driver of national economies, according to the keynote speaker at the Harry Crowe Foundation conference on accountability and quality in post-secondary education, held in Toronto.

CAUT has termed the federal government’s budget a “major disappointment” for post-secondary education, leaving Ca­nada’s researchers behind, providing no new support for universities and colleges to deal with increasing enrolments, and no relief for students already reeling under debt loads.

Following through on a previously-announced plan, the 2010 BC budget freezes government funding for public post-secondary institutions and student financial assistance programs for at least the next three years.

A major survey of faculty across the country has been launched by CAUT. The faculty work experience survey focuses on workload and related issues of job satisfac­tion, propensity for job change, and opportunity for research, among other measures.

A for-profit education corporation is facing stiff opposition in its bid to set up a private college offering academic modules and English language training on the University of Windsor campus.

After reading this new book by a distinguished American literary scholar and long-term academic activist, many readers will probably find many answers to questions on academic freedom.

Long revered for their dedication to equal opportunity and affordability, public universities play a crucial role in building human capital. And yet, less than 60 per cent of the students entering four-year colleges in America today are graduating.

Faced with a $ billion budget deficit, the Alberta government is freezing the operating grants for post-secondary institutions after years of steadily increasing investment. The freeze is part of an overall cut for the province’s advanced education ministry.

Librarians at McMaster University have formed an association and decided to unionize. MUALA represents a 30-member group.

L'American Association for the Advance­ment of Science a décerné son prestigieux prix annuel “Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award” à la professeure de pédiatrie, de médecine et de sciences de la santé publique à l’Université de Toronto.

L'éducation postsecondaire est une force motrice des écono­mies nationales, selon une professeure de l’université britannique de Bristol qui était l’oratrice principale de la conférence sur la reddition de comptes et la qualité dans les études postsecon­daires, organisée en janvier dernier à Toronto par la Fondation Harry-Crowe.

Dans son budget 2010, le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique a mis en application son intention déjà annoncée de geler, pendant au moins trois ans, les crédits alloués aux établissements postsecondaires publics et aux programmes d’aide financière aux étudiants.

Après des mois de négociations en face-à-face infructueuses en vue de la conclusion de la convention collective du personnel académique à temps plein, l’association des professeures et profes­seurs de l’Université du Nouveau-Brunswick et la direction de l’établissement vont se retrouver devant une commission de conciliation.

Le projet de collège privé proposant des modules universitaires qu’un prestataire de services d’éducation à but lucratif tente d’implanter sur le campus de l’Université de Windsor se heurte à une farouche opposition.

Dans une décision invalidant la politique de retraite obligatoire en vigueur à l’Université de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard (UPEI), la com­mission provinciale des droits de la personne a décrété que la retraite forcée de trois employés à l’âge de 65 ans constituait une pratique discrimina­toire aux termes de la loi provin­ciale sur les droits de la personne.

Un syndicat de professeurs d’université est graduellement construit, par étapes, parfois dans la tourmente et la division. C’est ce cheminement des universitaires, cet « apprivoisement » du syndicalisme, qu’aborde ce vo­lume.