On behalf of the USFA Executive Committee, I would like to invite you to our next member social on Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 at 4:00 pm. I would like to extend a special invitation to those of you who had your probation renewed, were awarded tenure or were promoted effective July 1st. You have achieved […]
Read More »This is the FINAL reminder to all faculty whose family members are students eligible for the USFA Scholarship and who have successfully completed degree credit courses taken in the 2012-2013 academic year (May 1, 2012 –April 30, 2013). The USFA scholarship is open to students who are immediate family members of members of the University […]
Read More »This is a reminder to all faculty whose family members are students eligible for the USFA Scholarship and who have successfully completed degree credit courses taken in the 2012-2013 academic year (May 1, 2012 –April 30, 2013). The USFA scholarship is open to students who are immediate family members of members of the University of […]
Read More »It has come to our attention that junior faculty have been counseled by not to publish results from their PhD thesis, as the various standards require that tenure and promotion candidates provide “compelling evidence that a body of high quality scholarly work has been completed beyond that demonstrated at appointment” (our emphasis). One reading of […]
Read More »Who judges your case file? – By your colleagues. How is your case judged? – By the standards that your department, college and university colleagues have written, and using the written case that has been prepared. Two important points to note. The first is that it will benefit you to provide a well-written and straightforward […]
Read More »The summative parts of SEEQ in aggregate form can be used in case files. But can SEEQ comments be included in the tenure/promotion package? The Association has been in discussions with the Employer for some time concerning the status of free-form comments in student evaluation forms. As long as the encrypted ID can identify the […]
Read More »A glitch was detected last week in the on-line application process for the USFA Scholarship Fund. Those who tried to access the on-line application were advised wrongly that the application deadline had passed. If you encountered this error, please try again. Applications can be found at http://students.usask.ca/current/paying/scholarships/. The application deadline is 11:59 pm June 1, […]
Read More »It is surprising how often we evaluate a colleague’s research career by metrics like publication counts, page counts, or order of authorship, which border on numerology, rather than considering the actual contribution. Although time is the true test of research, the reason we do this is that the practicalities of our processes force us to […]
Read More »Practice of professional skills remains a troublesome category for members in many units, particularly the professional colleges. Similar problems are arising with the new Academic Programming appointments. The intent behind these appointment categories was to relax research expectations as defined in Section 4 of the University Standards so as to allow certain kinds of colleagues […]
Read More »Interdisciplinarity: the agony and the ecstasy. The university encourages interdisciplinary research, and many colleagues enjoy the excitement of working with a team on a project with a great deal of potential. But there are also potential pitfalls to doing this early in your career. Interdisciplinary work really means building a new area of specialization that […]
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