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Tag Archives: Laurier
Letter responding to the “strategic new directions for teaching and learning” from the Faculty of Arts
(Posted with permission from Jonathan Finn.) Deb MacLatchy, Vice President: Academic Paul Jessop, Acting Vice President: Academic Kathryn Carter, Associate Vice President: Teaching and Learning April 10, 2017 Dear Deb, Paul and Kathryn, As the Chairs and Program Coordinators in … Continue reading
Posted in Laurier Administration
Tagged Alex Latta, Associate Vice President: Teaching and Learning, AVPTL, awards, Centre for Student Success, Chris Nighman, colleague support, collegiality, communication, community service learning, CSL, CTIE, Darren Mulloy, Deb MacLatchy, Deborah Van Nijnatten, department chairs, expertise, faculty, Faculty of Arts, firings, FoA, Gail Roth, Jeanette McDonald, job cuts, jobs, John Triggs, Jonathan Finn, Kathryn Carter, Laurier, Laurier Administration, learning, letters, Lisa Fanjoy, Lucy Luccisano, management, managers, Meena Sharify-Funk, Natasha Pravaz, Nathalie Freidel, news, online learning, open letters, Paul Jessop, pedagogy, personnel, program coordinators, Rebekah Johnston, Robin Waugh, senior administration, Sharon Marquart, staff, strategic directions, strategy, students, support, teaching, The Centre for Teaching Innovation and Excellence, Vice President: Academic, VPA, WLU administration, WLU management
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Century club inductees
(This article is from the WLUFA Advocate April 2017 5.2.) Having taught 100 or more courses at Laurier is worthy of recognition in and of itself but, when that milestone is reached by a Contract Faculty member it is a testament to … Continue reading
WLUFA equity and diversity town hall a success
(This article is from the WLUFA Advocate April 2017 5.2.) By Laurie Jacklin , Society, Culture & Environment & Michele Kramer, President. The issue of equity has been on most faculty association agendas for quite some time, but it has … Continue reading
Posted in WLUFA, WLUFA Advocate
Tagged ability, age, attitudes, Carl James, collective agreements, committees, culture, disability, diversity, employment status, equity, Equity & Diversity Committee, ethnicity, events, faculty, faculty associations, gender, gender expression, gender identity, language, Laurie Jacklin, Laurier, Michele Kramer, Pay Equity, policies, race, sexual orientation, town halls, Wilfrid Laurier University, WLU, WLU community, WLUFA, WLUFA Advocate, WLUFA Members, WLUFA President, workplaces, York University
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Fight for $15 & fairness on the Brantford campus
(This article is from the WLUFA Advocate April 2017 5.2) By Eddie Sauvé, MA Candidate, Social Justice and Community Engagement. This term, students at Laurier-Brantford have begun a campaign for the Fight for $15 & Fairness. Provincially the movement is … Continue reading
Posted in Brantford Campus, Labour Issues, WLUFA Advocate
Tagged $15 and fairness, Alan Sears, ASCC, basic needs, Brantford Campus, Brantford's MPP, Changing Workplaces Review, community, contract faculty, Dave Levac, discussions, Eddie Sauve, events, facebook, faculty, gender, improved wages, information tables, International Women's Day, Labour Issues, Laurier, Laurier Brantford, Laurier Brantford Women's Centre, Laurier Student Public Interest Research Group, LSPIRG, minimum wage, Ontario, pay, petitions, precarious employment, provincial legislation, solidarity, strikes, students, wages, walkouts, Wilfrid Laurier University, WLU, WLUFA Advocate, women
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Governance report and recommendations to the Senate
Originally published Apr. 7/17. By Kari Brozowski, Communications. Despite having no official position in the WLU Act or Senate approval, the University Secretariat initiated its own Governance Review of Wilfrid Laurier University. While some may applaud the gumption, faculty should … Continue reading
Posted in Laurier Administration, WLUFA Advocate
Tagged academic freedom, academic governance, calls to action, collegial governance, collegiality, death of collegiality, faculty, governance, governance report, Governance Review, Kari Brozowski, Laurier, Laurier Administration, Laurier Senate, power, PSE administration, recommendations, reports, sena, senior administration, University Secretariat, Wilfrid Laurier University, WLU Act, WLU administration, WLU President
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The UFC: Cynicism Versus Optimism of the Will
By Garry Potter Until last Monday night I believed that the single biggest problem stopping Contract Faculty from improving their situation was the ignorance, arrogance and egoism of the full-time faculty. Most full-time faculty fail to understand that the institutionalized … Continue reading
Posted in Contract Faculty, Labour Issues, Negotiations
Tagged academic governance, academic labour issues, academic staff, adjunct faculty, CAS, colleagues, communication, community, contract faculty, events, faculty, full-time faculty, Garry Potter, GUEST POSTS, higher education, Labour Issues, Laurier, Laurier Senate, management, meetings, negotiations, picket lines, precarious employment, rights, solidarity, students, teaching, unions, University committees, University Faculty Council, Wilfrid Laurier University, WLU community
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Standing with CUPE 926
By Matt Thomas, Library Tired and a little scared. Those were my feelings as I stood on the sidewalk near 202 Regina, the morning of Friday, July 8th. Tired from standing for so long wearing sandals a little too old … Continue reading
Posted in Fellow Associations & Unions, Labour Issues
Tagged academic programs and pedagogy, colleague support, community, corporatization, CUPE, CUPE 926, custodial jobs, dispute, events, Laurier, Laurier Administration, librarians, management, Matt Thomas, morale, negotiations, outsourcing, picket lines, precarious employment, strikes, The Canadian Union of Public Employees 926, unions, Wilfrid Laurier University, WLU community, working conditions
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