Student Course Evaluation Working Group Final Report

At a special joint committee meeting of the UOITFA and UOIT, the following final report and recommendations were approved. While more work remains to be done in implementing the recommendations, this concludes the activities of the working group set out in Letter of Understanding #4 Re Student Course Evaluation Working Group in the 2015-18 Tenured …

Bargaining Update (July 11 2017)

May was a very busy and productive month of bargaining; we achieved a lot in this time, and have signed-off on most of our non-monetary proposals. The outstanding issues are office space and the definition of the bargaining unit. We have otherwise made some great gains in language on what is categorized as non-monetary Articles. Should …

Student Course Evaluations – A UOITFA Position Paper

Student Course Evaluation Working Group UOITFA Position Statement Summer 2016 The UOITFA has identified the use, storage and value of student opinion surveys (SOS) as a significant priority. A number of studies have been produced on this topic; while debate on the usefulness of these as a measure of teaching effectiveness abounds, virtually all scholarship …

Violence, Sexual Violence, Harassment and Discrimination: Experiences from the UOIT Context

Abstract: What follows is a brief piece outlining the UOIT Faculty Association’s ongoing concerns surrounding harassment and discrimination at UOIT, and the Administration’s initiatives to create an umbrella violence, sexual violence, harassment and discrimination policy. Previous survey results indicate 47% of responding members have experienced and/or witnessed harassment and discrimination in their workplace. As such, …

UOITFA President’s Statement Regarding Social Justice Week

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology Faculty Association (“UOITFA”) has been notified that it has been named in an application under the Ontario Human Rights Code related to the Hasbara Fellowship having been denied a table during the Student Association at Durham College and UOIT‘s “Social Justice Week” held in March 2016. The decision to deny …