In the fall of 2020, news outlets carried stories about the significant wage gap between male and female professors showing up in Statistics Canada salary data for full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities for 2019/20. Concern was expressed here by many faculty members. This issue of Collectively Speaking provides a preliminary examination of the gap… Continue reading Collectively Speaking – April 2021
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When to go for tenure or promotion
Today is the best day to start thinking about your promotion/tenure case. You have a lot of resources to help you with your case. By May 31, your Department Head or Dean should have met with you to discuss your progress with respect to the approved standards, with which you should be familiar. You don’t… Continue reading When to go for tenure or promotion
Important Update: Sabbatical Travel Funds
We have negotiated a Letter of Understanding that allows expanded use of sabbatical travel funds to address limitations on travel during the COVID-19 emergency. Employees who were/are on sabbatical during the academic years 2019-2020, 2020–2021 or 2021-2022 shall be permitted to use sabbatical travel funds for any purposes related to their approved sabbatical plan, provided that such expenditures… Continue reading Important Update: Sabbatical Travel Funds
The COVID Asterisk
Some Senior Administrators have reassured faculty that there will be a COVID “asterisk” on their promotion/tenure files because of negative consequences of the pandemic. There is no information about how case files will be assessed with the implications of the pandemic in mind. What you need to do in the annual review process is ask… Continue reading The COVID Asterisk
Balancing your assignment of duties
Some faculty members have already begun collegial discussions about assignment of duties in their units for the 2021-2022 academic year. Many members have contacted the Association about unfairness and inequitability in the workload assignment in recent years, and particularly during the lockdown. The major changes in teaching culture might be a good time to revisit… Continue reading Balancing your assignment of duties
The Work of Faculty Continued
We received a number of emails in response to our recent e-Letter: The Work of Faculty. Members told us it resonated with them powerfully. Faculty expressed that they continue to be frustrated with the Employer’s top-down, opaque process for responding to the pandemic that excludes them from decision making when it directly affects their work. Members are… Continue reading The Work of Faculty Continued
Important: Professional Expense Allowance
Coming out of our discussions with members of the Pandemic Response Team, the Employer has proposed allowing faculty the option to request a one-time taxable payment from their APEF of up to one year’s allocation to support making their remote work environment more suitable for an extended period. There would be no restrictions or accountability… Continue reading Important: Professional Expense Allowance
Important: Salary Review Reporting Requirements
The Salary Review process is intended to have transparency. Department and College Salary committees are required to report rankings, decisions for the award of Special Increases and recommendations to College Review Committees and the President’s Review Committee as well as the Committee’s reasons for such rankings, awards and recommendations. College Review Committees are required to… Continue reading Important: Salary Review Reporting Requirements
Important information: Salary Review Procedures
Salary review procedures in the Collective Agreement (Article 17) establish our system for merit-based pay. During your career, you have available a specific number of regular annual salary increases based on rank: Career Development Increases. In addition to these regular salary increases, you may be awarded Special Increases for meritorious work. Salary committees at the… Continue reading Important information: Salary Review Procedures
The Work of Faculty
The work of faculty is changing in response to the Administration’s decision to shutter campus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The continual erosion of direct, administrative and technical support for faculty has only increased the burden on faculty as we take on the work of schedulers, IT equipment installers, purchasers, instructional designers, and in… Continue reading The Work of Faculty