A leading Canadian criminologist has filed a complaint against the University of Ottawa for failing to fulfill its obligation to uphold federal granting council research policies.

Postdoctoral scholars at the University of Toronto have been certified as a trade union by the Ontario Labour Relations Board, after a four-year organizing campaign.

CAUT has established an ad hoc investigatory committee to examine allegations about the treatment of heterodox economists at the University of Manitoba economics department.

The union I work for is about to make a significant move to online learning as a complement to its traditional face-to-face education program. The project will provide internet-based resources for new members, to introduce them to the union.

Recently in the New York Times, under the headline No Rich Child Left Behind, Stanford University professor Sean Reardon had this to say about social class and education: “Here’s a fact that may not surprise you: the children of the rich perform better in school, on average, than children from middle-class or poor families.

It seems fitting to review an edited collec­tion for the CAUT Bulletin written by professors who work within the universe of military academies and staff colleges given the recently released Report of the Commission on Governance of the Royal Military College of Canada.

This title is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades.

When Jack Layton died unexpectedly in the summer of 2011, millions of people mourned the loss of a man who had emerged as a much-loved political leader.

The American university is under attack from two directions, argues Ellen Schrecker in this major foray into the public debates over our troubled system of higher education.

CAUT has appointed an ad hoc investigatory committee in response to reports of various issues at the University of Prince Edward Island’s Atlantic Veterinary College.

Wrestling with an estimated 2012– 2013 deficit of $9.8 billion, the minority Liberal government of Ontario tabled a May budget politically positioned to address that problem, while still currying needed NDP favour in order to pass.