Graeme Reniers hired as new OCADFA Executive Director
OCADFA is pleased to announce Graeme Reniers is our new Executive Director. Graeme is a labour relations expert with a passionate commitment to defending high quality post-secondary education & scholarship, and experience advancing the interests of education and cultural workers. Click here to download the full announcement.
OCUFA province wide survey on COVID working conditions impact for faculty
Hello, Please take the time to fill out OCUFA’s province-wide survey on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic . We need the data to back the anecdotal evidence that is broadly shared: COVID has increased workload and has had a disproportionate effect on faculty and education workers have were already precarious. Mounting a fight back relies on …Continue Reading
Nov 1 update, invitation and call to action
Dear OCADFA members, an update, an invitation and a call to action: OCUFA supports 1492 Land Back Lane This weekend I attended the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Annual General Meeting. One of the motions I spoke to that successfully passed was support for the Haudenosaunee land defenders at 1492 Land Back Lane. The Board …Continue Reading
OCADFA’s Letter re: Canada Christian College
OCADFA’s letter to Minister Ross Romano regarding Ontario government’s intention to grant Canada Chrisitan College a university status and allow it to award degrees. Canada Christian College is run by Charles McVety, a publicly reviled and controversial televangelical who has trafficked hateful messages chock full of homophobia, transphobia, racism and Islamophobia. Click here to download …Continue Reading
OCADFA’s Letter to CAUT on Academic Freedom and Racial Slurs
The recent incident at University of Ottawa concerning Dr. Verushka Lieutenant-Duval’s use of discriminatory and racially-charged language in her ART 3317 Art and Gender course, combined with CAUT’s solidarity of such language under the guise ff academic freedom, is deeply concerning. OCADFA supports the statement of the caucus of the Black, Indigenous and People of …Continue Reading