Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants (FCEE)
National Chairperson: Katherine Giroux-Bougard
Contact: Amanda Aziz
Mandate:
The Canadian Federation of Students and the Canadian Federation of Students-Services were formed in 1981 to provide students with an effective and united voice, provincially and nationally. At the time, it was recognized that for students to be truly effective in representing their collective interests to the federal and provincial governments, it was vital to unite under one banner.
http://www.cfs-fcee.ca/html/english/home/index.php
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
President: Pauline Yu
Contact: Steven Wheatley
Mandate:
The advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences and the strengthening of relations among societies devoted to those studies.
Association of Canadian Deans of Education (ACDE)
Association canadienne des doyens et doyennes d’éducation (ACDE)
President/Contact: John Lundy
Mandate:
The Association of Canadian Deans of Education brings together the anglophone deans and directors of education to focus on the governance and development of faculties and departments of education.
http://www.csse.ca/ACDE/home.shtml
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (ABRC)
President: Leslie Wei
Contact: Brent Roe
Mandate:
"CARL provides leadership to the Canadian academic research library community through enhancing scholarly communication and assisting members to provide full support for postgraduate study and research." The mission of CARL is to increase the capacity of individual member libraries to provide effective support and encouragement to advanced study and research at the national, regional and local levels.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)
Centre canadien de politiques alternatives
President/Contact: Bruce Campbell
Mandate:
Education and research policy (public policy) - The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices in public policy debates.
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
Canadian Research Knowledge Networks (CRKN)
Réseau canadien de documentation pour la recherche (RCDR)
President: David Barnard
Contact: Deb deBruijn
Mandate:
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is a partnership of Canadian universities, dedicated to expanding digital content for the academic research enterprise in Canada. Through the coordinated leadership of librarians, researchers, and administrators, CRKN undertakes large-scale content acquisition and licensing initiatives in order to build knowledge infrastructure and research capacity in Canada's universities.
