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The FAUW Equity Committee is currently seeking nominations for the 2024 Equity & Inclusivity Award.

Inaugurated in 2012, the Equity & Inclusivity Award recognizes a member, group, or affiliate of the University of Waterloo community. The award is meant to further support individuals or groups who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to improving equity, inclusivity, and/or diversity at University of Waterloo. 

The revised Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between FAUW and the University, in support of the Policy 76/77 agreement, has passed by a majority vote of FAUW’s voting members. Turnout was over 65% of voting members. 

This vote required a double majority by lecturers and professors to ratify the changes to the MoA. The results by rank are as follows: 

  • 94% of voting lecturers were in favour of ratification 

  • 88.6% of voting professors were in favour of ratification 

  • 90.1% of all voters were in favour of ratification 

Detailed certified results are available on the MoA ratification vote 2024 webpage

These results mean that the changes to Policy 76/77 agreed to in December 2023 can move forward. The next step is for these policies to be approved by the Board of Governors at their April meeting. 

The changes outlined in Policy 76/77 will come into effect September 1, 2024. 

Please contact FAUW with any questions or concerns. 

On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, voting members of the Faculty Association (FAUW) will be asked to vote to ratify a revised Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between FAUW and University of Waterloo. These revisions are necessary following the joint approval of the mediated changes to Policies 76 and 77, announced December 6, 2023

Voting will close at 12 p.m. EST on Wednesday, February 21, 2024. 

The Faculty Association and Staff Association have teamed up to print and distribute more than 5,000 pride flag stickers to employees. Posting your sticker somewhere visible in your workspace is one small way to show your support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in the wake of the hate attacks of June 28 targeting that community. We hope that thousands of pride stickers displayed all over our four campuses will help send the message that all members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community belong at Waterloo. 

Each unit will get a package of flags to distribute amongst staff and faculty, so talk to whoever handles the mail for your department! 

The FAUW Equity Committee is currently seeking nominations for the 2023 Equity & Inclusivity Award.

Inaugurated in 2012, the Equity & Inclusivity Award recognizes a member, group, or affiliate of the University of Waterloo community. The award is meant to further support individuals or groups who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to improving equity, inclusivity, and/or diversity at the University of Waterloo. 

Thursday, February 16, 2023

We've got a new website!

As you can see, we have a new website! We've moved into the latest version of the Waterloo Content Management System and taken the opportunity to move things around in a way that we hope works better for members. Some of the changes include:

As of January 16, 2023, FAUW and the administration have completed the first two steps of our “path forward” for policies 76 (Faculty Appointments) and 77 (Tenure and Promotion of Faculty Members)—exchanging policy drafts and four meetings of a policy drafting committee —and are beginning mediation (step three).