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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.

The Course Evaluation Project Team (CEPT) was formed in May 2014 to “explore the potential for a new course evaluation model that is informed by best practices and meets the needs of students, faculty, staff and administrators.”

The team released a draft report on November 8, 2016, including a proposed course evaluation tool, and requested feedback from the University community.

Sally Gunz, FAUW President, and Ian Orchard, Vice President Academic & Provost (VPAP), have issued a joint memorandum of agreement formalizing regular salary anomaly reviews, following one of the recommendations of the May 2016 Salary Anomaly Working Group Report.

Changes to the Memorandum of Agreement regarding performance reviews were approved by the University Board of Governors on October 25. 

The changes include switching to a two-year schedule for tenured/continuing faculty, and new transparency requirements such as Faculty performance review addenda being approved by Faculty Council and published online.

We are pleased to announce the results of the referendum on changes to the Memorandum of Agreement regarding biennial performance reviews for tenured/continuing faculty members. 

The changes have been approved by a significant majority of voters and will now go to the University Board of Governors on October 25 for final approval.

Voter turnout was 54% and 88% of members who voted were in favour of the changes.

Updated: The changes have been endorsed by FAUW members and approved by the University Board of Governors.

FAUW and UW administrators at the Faculty Relations Committee have negotiated a set of very positive but substantive changes to Article 13 (Faculty Salaries, Annual Selective Increases and Member Evaluation Procedures) of the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA). The changes will:

One of FAUW's major initiatives is our Status of Women and Equity Committee (SWEC), which engages in educational and advocacy activities related to the status of women and with broader equity issues such as those arising from gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, or gender identity.

SWEC recently launched the UWaterloo Equity Update, a biweekly newsletter that brings together a range of events and opportunities across campus and in the community related to the committee's mandate.

Happy September!

We at FAUW hope you had a fantastic summer, and to help you kick off the new school year, we have a few tips on how to get the most out of your Faculty Association.

Get the full list in our latest blog post or read on for the super short version.

Researchers at OISE have prepared a report on sessional faculty for the Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development. Sessional faculty are defined in this report as faculty members who are either hired course by course or on short-term contracts. The report studies sessional faculty at 12 Ontario universities.

The report is available on the Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education (CIHE) blog.

By now you will have received notification of the Salary Anomaly Working Group final report. FAUW has posted highlights from the report and a Frequently Asked Questions page on our website, which we will be adding to as more questions come in.