Year: 2020

OCUFA Briefing Note: 2020 September Confirmations September 17, 2020 September confirmations data from the Ontario Universities Application Centre (OUAC) are the earliest publicly available indicator of fall enrolment at Ontario universities. They show the number of students who have confirmed their acceptance for “full-time, year-one, fall-entry, undergraduate university study.” Although not all confirmations become fall […]

** La  version  française suit ** Memorandum 20:46 Date:  September 15, 2020 To:   Presidents and Administrative Officers; Local, Federated and Provincial Associations From:  David Robinson, Executive Director Re:  Fair Employment Week (FEW) – October 19-23, 2020 Mark your calendar. Fair Employment Week (FEW) is taking place October 19-23, 2020. In light of COVID-19, this […]

On behalf of the Waterloo Women’s Faculty Colleague Dear all, As the new academic year begins, I am starting up drop in / chat times again.  Sadly they will have to be virtual, so I can’t offer coffee.  But I can offer an ear if you want to talk about the trials and tribulations of […]

Dear colleagues, WLUFA is committed to Indigenization and reconciliation and it holds the hiring of a minimum of six Indigenous faculty over the next three years as a primary objective. We secured important gains towards this end during the last round of bargaining and I am delighted to circulate the following summary made by Lianne Leddy, […]

In support of Scholars Strike Canada, the WLUFA Executive will postpone its scheduled meeting on Wednesday to collectively watch the digital teach-in at 2:30pm, “Gender, Colonialism and Anti-Black Police Racist Violence” with Erica Violet Lee and El Jones and moderated by OmiSoore Dryden.  More details about programming and schedules can be found on Scholar Strike Canada’s program […]

Dear Colleagues, This year the Status of Women and Equity Committee is hosting training workshop is entitled “Combatting anti-Black racism in the academy: A primer for faculty”. The workshop will be open to all members of OCUFA. So we would like to encourage you to invite your colleagues and share the information with your faculty […]

September 4, 2020  The Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA) condemns racist policing and related forms of institutionalized violence. We stand in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities in Brantford, Kitchener, Waterloo and across Ontario and the rest of Turtle Island. We hear the demands for justice from the families of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Rodney Levi, […]

Dear Colleagues: Please find attached and below OCUFA’s statement, in English and French,  in support for the Scholar Strike Canada for racial and social justice, taking place on September 9th and 10th, 2020.  As noted in the statement, while many OCUFA members are unable to legally strike during the length of their contract, OCUFA encourages faculty […]

** La  version  française suit ** University and College Fall Semester Plans CAUT is tracking institutional plans for delivery of courses during the pandemic. We have compiled a database of more than 110 institutions’ back to school plans, including the mode of delivery chosen for the Fall 2020 semester and links to each institutions’ health and safety plans. The re-opening of institutions this fall […]

** La  version  française suit ** Memorandum 20:44 Date:  September 2, 2020 To:   Presidents and Administrative Officers; Local, Federated and Provincial Associations From:  David Robinson, Executive Director Re:  Scholar’s Strike Canada – September 9-10, 2020 On September 9 and 10, academics in Canada are planning to pause their regular teaching and administrative duties to participate in activities and actions to […]