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Earlier this month, FAUW conducted a survey about members' experiences preparing for the 2020 spring and fall terms amid the transition to fully remote delivery, to help us advocate for our members’ interests. You can now access the results of the survey in the Reports & Documents section of our website. 

FAUW is particularly concerned that, at the time of the survey (May 8–13), 71% of respondents teaching in the fall said it was not clear to them how decisions were being made about how their courses should be delivered. 

74% of respondents teaching in the spring term felt more unprepared than usual at the start of term and only 53% felt that they received adequate support for spring term overall.  

Congratulations to the new members of the Board of Directors from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2022.

Like much of the rest of campus, the FAUW offices are closed and staff and Board members are working from home.

All FAUW events are postponed until further notice. The Spring General Meeting is still planned for noon on April 7, but will be delivered online. 

We have created a Coronavirus updates page with the latest information from us, frequently asked questions, and an archive of our emails related to the pandemic.

FAUW's new member-driven Climate Justice Working Group brings together faculty members at the University of Waterloo to generate collective action on campus—and within our broader communities—to help foster a just, climate-safe future.

This is a decentralized, action-oriented group that aims to shrink the carbon footprint of our work on campus and beyond, to build climate justice awareness on campus and in our community, and to spark related research with impact across the disciplines.

The FAUW elections committee solicited nominations for FAUW president from October 17 to November 13, 2019. The committee received only one nomination during this period, so FAUW is pleased to announce that Dan Brown will be the next FAUW president, starting July 1, 2020. Congratulations Dan!

If you have questions about the election process, please contact a member of the Elections Committee.

FAUW is launching a new slate of lunch & learns and faculty meetups this year, in addition to our regular workshops, reading circles, and general meetings.

Coming up first are a meetup for faculty interested in climate justice, our annual new faculty dinner, a lunch & learn on campus tech, and the September edition of our Indigenization reading circle.

As announced on our blog last month, in the Daily Bulletin today, two sets of minor amendments to the Memorandum of Agreement between the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo (FAUW) and the University of Waterloo took effect on July 17:

The FAUW Appreciation Award recognizes people from across the University who have gone above and beyond to improve the lives of faculty members. This year's award went to the executive committee of the Renison Association of Academic Staff (RAAS). Formed in February 2018, RAAS has been working tirelessly to provide faculty and academic librarians at Renison with the support and protection that our own members have enjoyed for decades. Their work will have a significant, positive impact on the lives of faculty at Renison for years to come and reminds us how vital Faculty Associations are. 

The Lecturers Committee presented the first Lecturers Appreciation Award to Benoit Charbonneau and the rest of the Working Group on Salary Structure for securing adjustments to faculty salary thresholds so they no longer unfairly disadvantage lecturers over the course of lecturers' careers.

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.