For many couples, choosing the right time to have children can be a source of anxiety. For some female professors, the decision can be more com­pli­cated if they are worried about losing their job if they get pregnant at the wrong time in the academic year.

“Work hard and good things will come.” Many of us were taught this maxim while growing up. The basic moral of the story is that success or failure is up to the individual.

UK universities have been warned by a leading environmental campaign group that they will need to move away from accepting research funding from “fossil fuel corporations” if they are to follow through with their commitment to combat climate change.

As its title suggests, this provocative book focuses on the contrast between the increasing government funding provided to Chinese higher education in recent decades and the parallel decline in financial support for American universities.

In a long struggle to preserve their culture, the Maliseet First Nation has faced many challenges, and some are familiar. One challenge, however, was unexpected: the Copyright Act.

In a strong rebuke to McMaster University, the Ontario Superior Court quashed penalties levied against four professors by an internal tribunal adjudicating disputes within the DeGroote School of Business.

Faculty groups in the United States are warning that the increasing reliance upon metrics to assess their “productivity” is threatening the traditional system of peer review in hiring, tenure and promotion decisions.

New at CAUT – Membership Engagement Officer, Collective Bargaining Officer and General Counsel.

As the Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan is proud to be part of a government that truly values science and the central role science plays in a thriving clean economy.

Teaching multi-section courses on a contract basis – Academic freedom grants control over course design, content, and evaluation. At the same time, departments have an interest in ensuring consistency across multi-section courses.

A PhD candidate from the department of art history and visual studies at the University of Victoria has been awarded CAUT’s 2016–2017 J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship.