An interactive workshop about how university governance works and FAUW protects members’ rights and makes change happen on campus.
The FAUW Board invites new faculty members to join us at Molly Bloom's at 2:30 p.m. on July 24 for a pint or a pop, and free snacks. We’ll also be dispensing free advice, should you want it. Bring any questions you have about how things work at Waterloo, or just come to meet your colleagues and enjoy some pub food.
RSVPs to laura.mcdonald@uwaterloo.ca are appreciated, but don't let a lack of RSVP prevent you from coming!
The 2019 FAUW Board elections are now complete.
Dina Dawoud (Statistics & Actuarial Science) and Patrick Lam (Electrical and Computer Engineering) will join the Board this July as at-large directors, along with Narveen Jandu (School of Public Health and Health Systems) in the Applied Health Sciences seat.
Shannon Dea (Philosophy) and Johanna Wandel (Geography and Environmental Management) were re-elected as at-large directors, and Brent Matheson (Math/Business and Accounting) will continue on in the lecturers position.
The University of Waterloo dental plan currently reimburses 80% of the cost of basic expenses as set out in the Ontario Dental Association (ODA) fee guide from two years ago (up to an annual maximum). Effective for treatments starting January 1, 2019, this reimbursement is increasing to 95% of the ODA’s current fee guide.
The move from the two-years-old fee guide to the current fee guide also affects major dental work and orthodontic work. Reimbursement for these costs should increase by 4-8%.
FAUW President Bryan Tolson is coming to you! He'll be visiting coffee shops in each Faculty on Tuesdays in January–March. Bring your suggestions, questions, and concerns and find out how FAUW can help.
Coffee (or tea) is free for the first 10 people to join each week. Please bring your own mug!
Last week, Faculty Association members voted to change how we calculate dues. Currently, each faculty member represented by FAUW pays 0.525% of the average base salary for faculty members at their rank. Starting in the new year, each faculty member will pay 0.525% of their own base salary, which makes for a more equitable distribution of dues and brings FAUW in line with other faculty associations. We expect Human Resources to implement this change in January 2019.
In 2016, the merit process in the Memorandum of Agreement was amended. In addition to making performance evaluations for tenured and continuing faculty biennial, the amendment included enhancements to merit histograms (section 13.5.11) to make them easier to access and include more fine-grained information.
Our 2018 elections for new Directors of the Board are now complete, following a runoff election to break a tie in Arts.
The successful candidates from Arts, Engineering, Environment, Mathematics, and Science are, respectively: Alice Kuzniar, Paul Ward, Daniel Cockayne, Dan Brown, and Vivian Choh. Congratulations to the new Directors, and thank you to everyone who ran and voted!
We received no nominations from members in Applied Health Sciences, so this position will be vacant until the Board can fill it by appointment.
Whether this is your first university appointment, or you've been at this for decades, starting at a new place can be hard.
Come learn the ins and outs of working at Waterloo, living in Waterloo Region, what FAUW does, and whatever else you want to know, at our New Faculty Conversation Cafe.
FAUW extends our sympathy to the family of Colten Boushie, to his fellow Red Pheasant First Nation community members, and to the broader Indigenous community at this difficult time. We are grateful to live and work on the traditional territory of the Neutral (Attawandaron), Anishnaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples. We value and respect our Indigenous members, colleagues, students, and neighbours. We have a lot of work to do to act on that value and respect, and we are committed to doing it.