A number of members in the College of Arts and Science have contacted the USFA expressing concerns about possible restructuring in their College, particularly with respect to the roles of the Vice Deans. The USFA ascribes to the view that College structure and the roles of Vice-Deans, Associate Deans and Assistant Deans are matters for […]

Many of you will have likely heard about an open letter to the Minister of National Revenue asking her to place a moratorium on political-activity audits of various think tanks that claim charitable status. The letter was drafted after a number of university professors learned that the Canada Revenue Agency is auditing the Canadian Centre […]

The Search and Review Procedures for Senior Administrators has a number of principles to guide all searches, including confidentiality, transparency and consultation. With a search for the next U of S President about to get underway, transparency and consultation—not confidentiality—needs to be front and centre for the Committee searching for our next President. As the […]

Previously we reported that former U of S President MacKinnon had refused to forward to the Board of Governors a positive recommendation by the Renewal and Tenure Appeal Committee for the tenure of one of our faculty members.  MacKinnon claimed that, pursuant to The University of Saskatchewan Act, he had the power to veto such […]

Each fall the USFA Executive hosts lunches for USFA members who are in the first few years of their appointment.  Join Executive Committee members, as well as USFA staff for lunch from 11:30 to 1:30 on September 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, or 24 in the Red Room at the University Club. For many of […]

Senior Administrators and the Board of Governors have made a number of choices in the last few years because they believed that the U of S was facing a financial crisis. Using this financial rationale, they chose to reduce the non-faculty workforce and to embark on TransformUS. The upheaval our university has been experiencing has […]

On August 6, 2014 the Executive Committee unanimously recommended that the membership ratify the 2014-2017 tentative collective agreement.  A special general meeting to consider ratification by the membership has been scheduled for Tuesday, September 2nd at 3:00 pm in room 1150 Health Sciences (E wing). 

Nominations are now open for the USFA National Academic Freedom Award.   The concept of the Academic Freedom Award emerged from a 2004 conference dedicated to the late Harry S. Crowe “whose academic freedom case gave rise to the modern day CAUT…”   The Harry Crowe Foundation sponsors an annual conference to celebrate the courageous story […]

While the University has launched an appeal of the arbitration decision regarding a former President’s unlawful participation in the process for the award of tenure, the dispute that gave rise to the grievance and the substance of the appeal stem from provisions in the Collective Agreement between the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association (USFA) and […]