University of Toronto Faculty Association

Joined October 2013
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24 Feb 2025
🗳️ On Feb 27, vote to end the gigification of teaching. Universities need a funding model that supports long-term, stable, and permanent positions for contract faculty. 📷 Email the party leaders now and ask them to commit to #Fairness4CF: buff.ly/4k2uXR
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22 Feb 2025
"Ontario provides the lowest level of funding per pupil in Canada ... Ontarians should be completely invested in what's going on at the post-secondary level ... research shows that education systems that are strong also lead to a strong economy." #ONpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/p…
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24 Feb 2025
Tomorrow! Please join with and learn from YUFA colleagues to stand up for programs at @YorkUniversity that profoundly affect students, community and social good. #WeAreYorkU
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On February 27th, vote to end the gigification of teaching. Universities need a funding model that supports long-term, stable, and permanent positions for contract faculty. Email the party leaders now and ask them to commit to #Fairness4CF. #ONpoli#ONPSE buff.ly/4k2uXRA
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24 Feb 2025
🗳️ On Feb 27, vote to end the gigification of teaching. Universities need a funding model that supports long-term, stable, and permanent positions for contract faculty. 👉🏼 Email the party leaders now and ask them to commit to #Fairness4CF: buff.ly/4k2uXR
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University Affairs is conducting a study into the challenges, opportunities and strategies to achieving gender equity in the academy. If you are a faculty or an administrative staff member, consider taking some time to complete their survey. More info: universityaffairs.ca/news/ta…

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10 Dec 2024
Congratulations, Professor Hinton!
Geoffrey Hinton, University Professor emeritus of computer science at #UofT and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, has added another prestigious award to his collection: the 2024 VinFuture Grand Prize. uoft.me/b84
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10 Dec 2024
“We need more research to understand why the work of Indigenization and reconciliation tends to be placed on women and is thereby quite gendered.” In the latest Bulletin, Candace Brunette-Debassige discusses Indigenization at Canadian universities: caut.ca/bulletin/2024/11/int…
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Institutions, students & faculty call for a sustained boost to provincial funding. Read more about how experts predict challenging times ahead for Ontario's postsecondary sector: cbc.ca/news/canada/post-seco… #ONpoli #ONpse
24 Nov 2024
Amid cuts to staff, programs and student services, Canada's post-secondary system is moving into a stormy period. cbc.ca/news/canada/post-seco…
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@univcan & Japan’s JANU have signed an #MOU to strengthen ties in #HigherEducation. This partnership will foster academic excellence 🎓, research innovation 🔬💡and 🌎exchanges, building on 50 years of collaboration.🇨🇦🤝🇯🇵 #HigherEd #GlobalPartnerships
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Thank you to @UofT for making your voice heard- Ford's plan to remove bike lanes costs money that is sorely needed elsewhere in our city and makes our communities less healthy and less safe. #TOpoli @CycleToronto #toronto
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22 Oct 2024
It’s time for job security, fair pay, and benefits for @UofT and all contract faculty! Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. #Fairness4CF #MakeItFair #CDNPSE ocufa.on.ca/fairness makeitfair.caut.ca
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3 Nov 2024
“Education austerity must end if we want to develop a thriving, informed populace where all people can have equal opportunity to explore their potential.” 👏 👏 👏 fundmun.ca
2 Nov 2024
“‘Get your education. That’s one thing they can never take away from you,’ is something I heard a lot growing up in my rural community.” Rachel Hawco on why cuts to MUN hurt the people of a province that already has the lowest rate of bachelor’s degrees. themuse.ca/opinion-fureys-cu…
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I'm moderating a free online event exploring ongoing threats to the right to strike, featuring @OFLabour president Laura Walton @waltonmom and my @BrockLabour colleague Alison Braley-Rattai. 🗓️ Wed Nov 13 @ 7PM 💻 Register ➡️ eventbrite.ca/e/the-right-to… #canlab @CAWLS_ACETS
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October 21 to 25 is Fair Employment Week. Please join @caut_acppu and @OCUFA, @cuasa, and @cupe4600 in advocating for job security for all professors. #fairness4cf
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October 21-25 is Fair Employment Week, celebrating and recognizing the many faculty at Canadian universities who make significant contributions yet don't have job security. @DalhousieU @CAUT_ACPPU @ANSUT_Tweets @cupe3912 #MakeItFair
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22 Oct 2024
It’s time for job security, fair pay, and benefits for @UofT and all contract faculty! Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. #Fairness4CF #MakeItFair #CDNPSE ocufa.on.ca/fairness makeitfair.caut.ca
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Too many contract faculty have to reapply for their jobs every term and don’t know if they will be teaching semester-to-semester or year-to-year. #Fairness4CF #MakeItFair #CDNPSE ocufa.on.ca/fairness makeitfair.caut.ca
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21 Oct 2024
NOW HIRING: Junior Professor with Senior Professor experience open to Postdoc salary
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"Steering" is the practice commonly used by academic administrators that aims to give "soft" directives in a way that the administration can plausibly deny *are* directives. It is fundamentally dishonest and undermines #collegialgovernance. 1/8
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