We Are CAUT
Founded in 1951, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is the national voice for academic staff representing 72,000 teachers, librarians, researchers, general staff and other academic professionals at some 125 universities and colleges across the country. CAUT is an outspoken defender of academic freedom and works actively in the public interest to improve the quality and accessibility of post-secondary education in Canada.
About Unlock Education
Unlock Education is a CAUT campaign to communicate public post-secondary education’s positive social impacts, and to help support CAUT members and supporters with ongoing efforts to organize and build capacity at the local association level.
The Unlock Education campaign fights for the freedoms associated with post-secondary education. That means:
- Making college and university affordable for everyone
- Freedom from political interference
- Including new people and new perspectives
- Universities and colleges we can rely on
We believe that freedom in post-secondary education is a learning environment where:
- Researchers are free to investigate without interference
- Teachers are free to teach
- Students are free to learn and invest in their futures