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Republished from OCUFA.

In May, OCUFA brought together representatives of its membership to identify the policy issues affecting Ontario’s universities that they view as most critical, and to draft recommendations for addressing them. The final report summarizing these consultations is now available online.

In February, the Faculty Association’s Status of Women and Equity Committee hosted Margaret Price, an award-winning scholar of disability, to present findings from an international study examining the experiences of disabled faculty members and best practices for accommodation processes at universities.

We published a blog post about the event and how things work at Waterloo, Know Your Rights: Disability Accommodations for Waterloo Faculty. 

If you’ve ever been to an event at the Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre (WAEC), you might have a pretty good idea of why the University’s Status of Women and Equity Committee (SWEC) awarded the Centre with the 2017 Equity and Inclusivity Award.

FAUW President Sally Gunz's report to the membership at the Spring General Meeting on April 6, 2017, is now posted on the FAUW blog. The report covers outgoing Board members, the Hagey Lecture, the Course Evaluation Project, mental health concerns, FAUW communications developments, and more.

Read it on the FAUW blog.

FAUW would like to issue a heartfelt thank-you to everyone who ran for the Board of Directors, and everyone who voted, in this election. 

FAUW offers its sympathy to the family of Professor Alex López-Ortiz and to all his colleagues and friends both in Computer Science and across the university community. This is truly a sad loss and we are thinking of you.

It is with great pleasure that FAUW's Status of Women and Equity Committee announces the winner of the 2017 Equity and Inclusivity Award: the Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre.

The Equity and Inclusivity Award is a celebration of members of our community whose actions have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to improving equity, inclusivity, and/or diversity at the University of Waterloo.

ان أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في جامعة واترلو (FAUW) تود ان تعبر عن حبها و تعاطفها مع كل الذين تضرروا بأحداث العنف التي جرت ليلة الأحد الماضية في المركز الثقافي الاسلامي في كوبيك.
الى عوائل و أصدقاء الضحايا، و أعضاء المركز، و زملائنا في كوبيك، و زملائنا المسلمين، أصدقائنا و جيراننا هنا في واترلو، ان أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في جامعة واترلو (FAUW) قد احزنتهم هذه الحادثة.

The Vice-President Academic & Provost has issued a memo, the language of which was agreed-upon by FAUW at Faculty Relations Council (FRC), establishing new guidelines for handling conflicts of interest on hiring committees.

The memo can be found on the Memos & Reports page of the Provost Office website

A story in the Daily Bulletin earlier this week reflected on the careers of Robert and Mary Snyder. Bob was the first president of the Faculty Association and an associate professor the Department of Physics. "Ma and Pa Snyder," as they were known, retired in 1990. Bob died this past September.

The full story is in the January 24 Daily Bulletin. A list of all past FAUW presidents is available on our website.