OCUFA Activities

GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS:

To accomplish its objectives OCUFA regularly meets with:

• the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
• Cabinet Ministers and MPP’s
• Senior Civil Servants
• the Education Critics and Members of the Opposition Parties
• other appropriate government agencies
• the Council of  Ontario University, the Canadian Federation of Students,the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance and organizations representing university employees

MEDIA AND PUBLIC RELATIONS:

OCUFA promotes issues of concern to the organization through an extensive internal and external communications plan

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING:

OCUFA provides timely statistical and research information for faculty negotiating purposes; sponsors workshops on an annual basis.

INFORMATION AND OTHER SERVICES

• compiles and publishes data on economic benefits and university funding
• facilitates the exchange of information among negotiating committees
• publishes research papers on trends in higher education
• compiles and provides information on local, provincial, and national access and equity initiatives
• sponsors and supports the work of its various committees
• produces Academic Matters, a publication which highlights issues of interest to the university community in Ontario, the rest of Canada and internationally
• recognizes merit in teaching and academic librarianship, collective bargaining, the advancement of women academic staff,  and service to OCUFA  through annual awards
• provides an annual scholarship, the Henry Mandelbaum Graduate Fellowship, to a meritorious graduate student at an Ontario university
• hosts annual conferences on topical higher education concerns
• liaises with other provincial faculty associations in Canada on issues of mutual concern
• works with the Canadian Association of University Teachers to ensure that services provided by the two organizations are complementary