Today is the best day to start thinking about your promotion/tenure case. You have a lot of resources to help you with your case. By May 31, your Department Head or Dean should have met with you to discuss your progress with respect to the approved standards, with which you should be familiar. You don’t […]
Read More »Some Senior Administrators have reassured faculty that there will be a COVID “asterisk” on their promotion/tenure files because of negative consequences of the pandemic. There is no information about how case files will be assessed with the implications of the pandemic in mind. What you need to do in the annual review process is ask […]
Read More »Dear Colleagues. It has come to our attention that there is confusion in your college about promotion committees. The position of the Association, which we have conveyed to the Employer, is that processes set out in the Collective Agreement do not apply to non-university employees. These processes, which include committee composition, are negotiated terms and […]
Read More »An arbitrator’s decision at Ryerson University released July 6, 2018 has ordered that student-based evaluations of teaching not be used in tenure and promotion cases, effective immediately. The decision stated that the evaluations “are imperfect at best and downright biased and unreliable at worst”. With respect to the evidence provided Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) […]
Read More »The Committee on Women’s Issues, chaired by Susan Fowler-Kerry, continues to work actively to raise awareness about women’s issues at the university. Most recently, they have been engaged in a series of discussions related to evaluations of Indigenous Women on this campus. In an effort to promote transparency and fairness as we embrace diversity and Indigenization, […]
Read More »Today is the best day to start thinking about your promotion/tenure case. You have a lot of resources to help you with your case. If you are planning to go forward for renewal, tenure or promotion this fall, consider joining USFA representatives at the University Club in the Club Room from 11:30 to 1:30 March […]
Read More »Today is the best day to start thinking about your promotion/tenure case. You have a lot of resources to help you with your case. If you are planning to go forward for renewal, tenure or promotion this fall, consider joining USFA representatives at the University Club in the Club Room from 11:30 to 1:30 April […]
Read More »If you are planning to go forward for renewal, tenure or promotion this fall, please join USFA representatives for lunch at the University Club in the Club Room from 11:30 to 1:30 April 26 or 29 to talk about the process. It’s on us! Soon, if not already, these annual processes will get underway. By […]
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by June 15 candidates shall advise their Department Head or Dean of their intention to seek promotion in the following academic year.
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