The third integrated plan describes strategies that will be used to advance academic priorities over the next four years. These strategies are supposed to guide our planning and programing and include fostering creativity and innovation, learner-centred programming, promoting diversity and experiential learning. With the recent decision to cut the Kenderdine Campus, an experiential learning environment […]
Read More »The Fall is the time of year when you deliberate on your colleagues’ renewal of probation, tenure and promotion. The Collective Agreement gives us the right – and the duty – to make these decisions and we have to exercise them with the greatest of all due diligence. If you are a committee member, the […]
Read More »This issue of Collectively Speaking is a memo composed by Doug Chivers, USFA Chair and Rawson Professor of Biology, to a number of senior U of S administrators including the President, the Provost and Vice-President Academic, the Vice-President Research, the Vice-Provost, Faculty Relations, the Acting Vice-President Finance and Resources and the Associate Vice-President Human Resources. […]
Read More »By: Luis A. Buatois & M. Gabriela Mángano, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan A total $147 million budget cut for the three councils is under way. In particular, the situation of NSERC has been addressed in a recent news article published by the journal Nature (http://www.nature.com/news/canadian-budget-hits-basic-science-1.10366), where it reads “Canada’s latest budget will […]
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By February 15, the University Review Committee shall have considered all cases for promotion and submitted its positive recommendations to the President for transmission to the Board.
Read More »Hello everyone. Our next member social, on November 13, is fast approaching. Plan to attend and join us from 4:00 to 6:00 in the Windows Room at the University Club. It’s a wonderful opportunity to clink a glass, bend an ear, share a story, and get to know colleagues from across campus. It’s also an […]
Read More »The title of this is e-Letter is a question that is being echoed from different parts of campus and is being focused on the new Health Sciences Building. As we meet with members as part of our bargaining preparations, we are hearing concerns about impacts on research and teaching programs in relation to relocating to […]
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Departmentalized colleges – By January 31, College Review Committees shall have considered all salary reviews, made awards where appropriate, submitted recommendations to the President’s Review Committee informed individual employees of decisions and recommendations, and submitted decisions to the President for the information of the Board. Non-Departmentalized colleges – By January 31, Deans shall have met […]
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By January 31, the University Review Committee shall have considered all cases for tenure and transmitted its recommendations in writing to the President for transmission to the Board.
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By January 31, the University Review Committee shall have considered all appeals and transmitted recommendations to the President for transmission to the Board.
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