Attention all members of OCAD Teaching Faculty (sessional, teaching stream, CLTA, tenure-track, and tenured) and Academic Staff (including technicians, academic counsellors, teaching assistants, and research assistants). We’ve created a Zine to help you know your rights! We are very excited to share this illustrated summary of the Memorandum of Agreement signed between the University and …Continue Reading
It’s cold and flu season, and COVID is certainly still around us, so we’ve been getting a few questions on what to do if you’re sick and need to miss a class. Firstly, it’s important to know that all OCADFA members have the right to access Sick Leave. For Faculty the relevant article in our …Continue Reading
Find information and links to important dates for the upcoming 2024/2025 year.
Thurs, 30 Oct | 7pm | FREE100 McCaul Auditorium (190) This film offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Colombia U as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Co-director Michael Workman will join us for a post-screening discussion. ——— Screening co-sponsored by: OCAD Faculty Association, York University …Continue Reading
21-23 October 2025 is Fair Employment Week! What is Fair Employment Week? OCADFA is a member of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and every year we commemorate Fair Employment Week to raise awareness about precarious employment on campus and to improve the working conditions of contract academic staff. How can I get involved? …Continue Reading
The following email was sent to the People & Culture on September 16, 2025 concerning the lack of faculty consultations in TA appointments. The prioritization of Graduate Students for TA and RA positions has been in our Memorandum of Agreement since at least 2010, and it has never precluded faculty consultation on the TAs assigned …Continue Reading
The following email was sent to the OCADFA membership, and the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, on May 13, 2025, from OCADFA’s President, Min Sook Lee. Read the Email here or click on the link below to download: