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Update: Indigenization Concerns – Meeting with the President

In response to the USFA invitation, the President, the Interim Provost, the Vice-Provost Indigenous Engagement, the Vice Provost Faculty Relations and the Associate Vice-President People and Resources met with USFA representatives to discuss the Association’s experiences and the experiences of Indigenous USFA members and to explore ways to work together on solutions. Thank you to […]

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Scholar Strike

Scholar Strike in Canada will take place on September 9th and 10th, during which participants will pause teaching and all administrative duties, and will use this time to organize public digital teach-ins on police brutality and violence from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The Canadian action is aligned with the one in the U.S., in its call for racial justice and an […]

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Need Childcare??

Campus Daycare has immediate openings for children who are 30 months (toilet trained) – 6 years old. One parent needs to be a student, staff or faculty of the UofS.  Fully licensed preschool childcare center in the Education building. For more information call 306-966-7807 (Lorie) or email at campus.daycare@usask.ca.

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Important Update: Indigenization Concerns

Recently we let you know the Executive Committee wrote to President Stoicheff expressing concern and disappointment with what it sees happening at the University with respect to the institutional priority of Indigenization and relaying the Association’s experiences and the experiences of our Indigenous members.  Our letter invited the President to meet with USFA representatives in order to […]

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COVID updates

Over the summer we have been meeting with representatives of the Pandemic Response Team (PRT), carrying on discussions with the employer about the COVID-19 response, and insisting on efforts to resolve matters affecting USFA members. We have raised a number of concerns in these discussions including the need for clarity on copyright of recorded lectures, […]

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Indigenization Concerns and Disappointment

In late June, the USFA Executive Committee wrote to President Stoicheff to express concern and disappointment with what it sees happening at the University with respect to the institutional priority of Indigenization. With June being National Indigenous History Month, the gift of an Indigenization Strategy on the horizon and the President’s June 17 “Statement and Action on Racism,” […]

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