Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association
Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association
La version française sera disponible demain Greetings, We would like to invite you to sign the Open Letter to Stephen Harper regarding the Federal Government’s funding of First Nations University of Canada. The letter is reproduced below. If you wish to sign the letter, please go to http://www.caut.ca/fnuc/ and click on the line “Add your […]
Dear Colleagues; Today, OCUFA released new research report titled The Decline of Quality at Ontario Universities: Shortchanging a Generation. The paper, part of our ongoing Trends in Higher Education series, contrasts the student experience today with that of the 1960s and finds that students are paying more money for a diminished quality of education. The […]
Russ has prepared for you a projected outlook for university revenue for academic year 2010-11, combining the impact of both the budget and tuition announcements of the past few days. His current best estimate of the increase in university revenue at this time is 6.8% over the current year for the system as a whole […]
PHOTO COURTESY OF CAUT/ACPPU Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association is proud to announce that Doug and Joyce Lorimer were each awarded the Donald C. Savage Award by Dr. Don Savage on Friday, November 27 at the Fall Council Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers. The Award, which was established in 1997 in honour […]
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The Ontario budget contained an update on the actions that the Liberal government has taken over the last few years to strengthen pension plans registered in Ontario, and lays out a general blueprint for pension reform in the upcoming year. This section of the budget has implications for the recently released report on pension by […]
The Ontario budget brought down by the Liberal government yesterday afternoon introduces a new piece of legislation aimed at restraining compensation increases for MPP’s, the Ontario Public Service, and transfer partners in the broader public sector, for a period of two years. The legislation will cover Ontario’s universities, and will have an impact on collective […]
Those of you who are tuning in to hear the press coverage of the Ontario budget today may be wondering what the impact will be of the Public Sector Compensation Restraint to Protect Public Services Act, 2010 on your members and your collective agreements. The Liberal government is being deliberately vague in its explanations but […]
Dear Colleagues; OCUFA has responded to the 2010 Ontario Budget. The press release is available here: http://newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2010/25/c5261.html Full text of the release is available attached to this message. We will be conducting a thorough analysis of the budget and distributing this to our members over the coming days. We will also be providing detailed information […]
Greetings, We have had a whirlwind series of meetings yesterday and today with Gilles Duceppe, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton and Chuck Strahl to get funding restored for the First Nations University. Joining me in these meetings were Guy Lonechild, Grand Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations; Diane Admas, President of the FNUC Student […]