TORONTO – Ontario’s professors and academic librarians are calling for “immediate, strong, and decisive action” to free John Greyson and Tarek Loubani from arbitrary detention in Egpyt. Faculty association leaders made their call in a unanimous motion passed at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). […]
Posts from September 2013
OCUFA, as a member of the Ontario University and College Coalition, a coalition of student, staff and faculty organizations, is deeply concerned about the findings of a new report, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which projects that the average cost of university tuition and other compulsory fees in Ontario will reach […]
The latest Federal Scientific Activities report from Statistics Canada indicates that Canada’s federal government expenditures on science and technology for 2013-14 will decline 3.3 per cent from the previous year. The reduction will not only harm government agencies like Statistics Canada and the National Research Council, but will also reduce funding to research “performers” like universities. If inflation forecasts […]
Toronto – Professor Richard Caron of the University of Windsor has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Professor Caron, who teaches in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, will receive a 2012-2013 OCUFA Teaching Award at a September 28, 2013 ceremony in Toronto. “As one […]
Toronto – Professor Stephen Pitel of Western University has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Professor Pitel, who teaches in the Faculty of Law, will receive a 2012-2013 OCUFA Teaching Award at a September 28, 2013 ceremony in Toronto. “As noted by his nominators, Professor […]
Toronto – Professor Brent E. Faught of Brock University has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Professor Faught, who epidemiology in the Department of Community and Health Sciences, will receive a 2012-2013 OCUFA Teaching Award at a September 28, 2013 ceremony in Toronto. “Professor […]
Toronto — Professor Susan Vajoczki of McMaster University has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Professor Vajoczki, who sadly passed away in 2012, taught in the school of Geography and Earth Sciences. She will receive a posthumous 2012-2013 OCUFA Teaching Award at a September […]
Toronto – Professor Catherine Bruce of Trent University has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Professor Bruce, who teaches in the School of Education and Professional Learning, will receive a 2012-2013 OCUFA Teaching Award at a September 28, 2013 ceremony in Toronto. “Professor Bruce’s students, […]
Toronto – Professor Lorraine Janzen Kooistra of Ryerson University has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Professor Janzen Kooistra, who teaches in the Department of English, will receive a 2012-2013 OCUFA Teaching Award at a September 28, 2013 ceremony in Toronto. “Professor Lorraine Janzen’s research […]
TORONTO – The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) is pleased to announce the winners of its prestigious Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards. Since 1973, these awards have recognized exceptional contributions made by professors and librarians to the quality of higher education in Ontario. “Every day, Ontario’s professors make incredible things happen in our classrooms […]
This article, by OCUFA President Kate Lawson, originally appeared on The Huffington Post . The idea that universities are somehow not doing what we want them to do has become a popular trope in the editorial pages. To hear some columnists tell it, Canada’s universities are stuck in the past and not up to the labour market challenges […]
TORONTO – Librarian Corinne Laverty of Queen’s University has been awarded a prestigious OCUFA Librarianship Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the profession. Laverty, who is the head of the Queen’s Education Library, will receive her award at a September 28, 2013 ceremony in Toronto at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel. “Libraries are an essential […]
OCUFA is pleased to announce the winners of its prestigious Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards. Since 1973, these awards have recognized exceptional contributions made by professors and librarians to the quality of higher education in Ontario. “Every day, Ontario’s professors make incredible things happen in our classrooms and labs,” said OCUFA President Kate Lawson. “This […]