WLUFA SPECIAL EVENT: Interrogating the Laurier Budget
Date: Nov 19, 2019 11:20 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Meeting Recording – Password Protected (see email from WLUFA) Laurier Budget Presentation – Powerpoint Presentation
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Health Coalition Protest – this Saturday!
Sent on behalf of Kimberly Ellis-Hale, Waterloo Contract Faculty Liaison Officer: WLUFA has been asked to publicize an opportunity for our members to oppose the Ford Government cuts to health care and to show their support for the Ontario Health Coalition. Please see their message below. “We are working flat out to build […]
Milton discussion
WLUFA’s Governance Committee invited faculty and librarians last week (Oct 30) to discuss the University Administration’s plan to establish a satellite campus in Milton although government funding was removed, the University reports it is facing a deficit of $18 million, and Departments are being asked to make further cutbacks. The Administration gave a presentation […]
Meeting with MPP Glover
Chris Glover, the NDP Critic for Colleges and Universities, has asked to meet with Faculty Members, on November 13th. They will be on campus to discuss recent funding changes and other challenges and opportunities at the University. This is a challenging time for Ontario’s post-secondary sector and Chris looks forward to the opportunity to learn […]
Waterloo Women’s Faculty Colleague
Dear Colleagues, As your Waterloo Women’s Faculty Colleague, my role includes providing opportunities for women-identified faculty to get together in the spirit of collegiality and learning. I have been holding regular drop in times at Byte75 on Mondays from 9am-10am. This has been both fun and informative, but perhaps unsurprisingly most of the […]
Ontario Universities and Colleges Coalition Issues Press Release vs Performance-Based Funding
The OUCC, which represents over 435,000 Ontario PSE faculty, staff and students, recently issued a press release in opposition to the Ford government’s performance-based funding model for PSE. Among the criticisms laid out in the press release are that not only has the government failed to lay out clearly how a number of the metrics are to […]
Urgent Appeal from UWOFA
Hi all, Please see below for an appeal for action from our colleagues at UWOFA on behalf of the Librarians and Archivists bargaining Unit: Help Western University Librarians and Archivists Avoid a Strike Western’s librarians and archivists bargaining unit requested a No Board on Friday, September 13th, and will be in a […]
Inequity in PSE to Be the Inevitable By-product of Ontario Gov’t Performance-Based Funding
Various stakeholders in post-secondary education have issued strong statements against the Ford Government’s funding model for PSE. At the centre of the statements is a deep concern for the ways in which the funding model will entrench inequity into the PSE system itself. A statement from the Ontario Universities and College Coalition warns that “Without […]
Of Interest: Inside Higher Ed: Professionals Take a Stand Against Student Evaluations
Excerpt from Colleen Flaherty’s article: ‘…”a growing body of evidence suggests that their use in personnel decisions is problematic.” The statement cites more than a dozen studies finding that students’ evaluations are weakly related to other measures of teaching effectiveness, used in statistically problematic ways and can be influenced by factors such as times of day and class size. […]
OCUFA estimates Ford’s “performance” funding could cut university budgets by over $500 million dollars
From OCUFA Report: Toronto, Sep. 4, 2019 – Ontario faculty are warning that the Ford government’s so called “performance” funding model for postsecondary education is reckless, ineffective, and dangerous. The new funding model will link 60 per cent of government funding for universities ($2.2 billion dollars) to an arbitrary set of metrics chosen with no […]