Entries in academic freedom (2)

Wednesday
May132009

The UWFA News - May 2009

We’ve just posted the most recent issue of the UWFA News. In this issue, you’ll find articles on everything from Salem Bland’s academic freedom issue in 1917 to the current University budget issues. Also, we’ve republished the report of the President to the Annual General Meeting. For the charts relating to Michael Hohner’s Library piece, see below.

You’ll also find posted below the UWFA Scholarship and Bursary Fund Donation form. More information in this program is in this issue of the UWFA News. We strongly encourage all of our members to donate.

You may notice that there is a word missing from the end of the article “UW Faculty and their Student Loans”. The article should end on the next line, and the missing word is ‘worry’.

Comments, questions and submissions to the next UWFA News can be sent to uwfa@uwinnipeg.ca. The next issue of the UWFA News is scheduled to come out in September.

The UWFA News - May 2009

UWFA Scholarship and Bursary Donation Form

CAUT Librarian Survey

Thursday
Feb192009

Canada Research Grant Council Information

The attached is an open letter CAUT sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper yesterday. The letter urges the government to increase funding for Canada’s research granting councils by matching, proportionally, what the Obama administration is investing in the American funding agencies. The letter also calls on the government to let scientists, not politicians decide where research funding is best spent.

CAUT will be raising these issues with the government during a meeting CAUT has secured with Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, on February 26.

CAUT Letter to Prime Minister Harper