Peter Fenrich, FSA President On August 22nd, I attended the inaugural meeting of the CAUT College and Institute Academic Staff Committee (CIASC). The CIASC is appointed by and reports to the Executive Committee of CAUT (Canadian Association of University Teachers). The mandate is to advise on issues relating to academic staff working in colleges and
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Originally published in our April 2019 FSA Voice newsletter. We encourage all members to know about the importance of Initial Placement so that when new colleagues start in your Department you can encourage them to ensure that they have been placed properly. We have several “hard to fill/difficult to recruit to” disciplines where having this knowledge is key. In
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Originally published in our October 2018 FSA Voice newsletter. Over the last year, the FSA has seen an increase in members using collective agreement provisions to dispute excess workload assignments. Collective Agreement Articles 8.8 and 8.9 (for instructional and non-instructional staff respectively) provide three levels of dispute resolution. The Workload Dispute Process gives members the opportunity to
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Updated: June 27, 2019. After sending out this notice on June 24th we received some questions from members and have added some FAQ to the bottom of this post. Thank you to the members who reached out for more information! The FSA office is currently significantly understaffed. The FSA board and staff remain committed to fulfilling
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