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OCUFA’s recommendations for the Ontario budget

By wlufaPosted on January 23, 2017January 23, 2017Posted in Main Postings, OCUFATagged budgets, Canada, CdnPSE, contract faculty, data, employment laws, faculty, fair employment, fairness, funding, information, Judy Bates, labour laws, laws, Mark Rosenfeld, Ministry of Finance, ocufa, OCUFA Executive Director, OCUFA President, ONpse, Ontario, pensions plans, performance, priorities, recommendations, reports, retired faculty, solvency, student-faculty ratio, tenure-stream faculty

[Copied from email sent by Mark Rosenfeld, Executive Director of OCUFA.] See OCUFA’s 2017 pre-budget submission, which sets out OCUFA’s priorities for the Ontario Budget. OCUFA’s recommendations include: Increasing per-student funding for Ontario’s universities to match the average for the rest of Canada; Making a commitment to supporting faculty renewal, including full-time faculty hiring that […]

Read the “New report on sessional faculty in Ontario universities”

By wlufaPosted on October 14, 2016Posted in Faculty News, Main PostingsTagged CIHE, contract faculty, Ontario, part-time members, reports, universities

Released in July 2016, “A Survey of Sessional Faculty in Ontario Publicly-Funded Universities” by Field and Jones “…takes a step towards addressing the lack of evidence to guide debate on the quickly growing population of university instructors who work on short-term contracts.” Go to the August CIHE blog entry summarizing and linking to the report: https://ciheblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/new-report-on-sessional-faculty-in-ontario-universities/ […]