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The 2022-2025 Collective Agreement booklet is now available.
After three months of negotiations, the University and the FA have come to an important agreement concerning the academic freedom of faculty members to issue public statements regarding matters which concern the membership, including political and social issues. Moving forward all academic units may continue to post statements to their websites so long as they are derived through collegial dialogue, do not purport to suggest unanimity of opinion where it does not exist, and do not purport to speak for the University at large.
On Tuesday, February 6th, 2024, the Faculty Association Executive and Equity Committees sent a letter of support for the creation of a Disability Task Force to President & Vice Chancellor Benoit-Antoine Bacon. The letter received unanimous support from our Executive Committee and the Disability Working Group and we urge the University to establish this important initial step in creating a fair and equitable workplace for all our members.
The Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE) and Fidelity Investments® are hosting three webinars* to help faculty members plan for life after retirement. During the sessions, participants will explore the social, psychological, and emotional dimensions of pre- and post-retirement.
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As part of the process to amend the Land Use Plan (LUP) for the Vancouver campus, a legislatively required public hearing was held November 7, 2023. The purpose of the public hearing was to give everyone with an interest in the LUP an opportunity to share comments. It was the final phase in an 18+ month Campus Vision 2050 public engagement process that included opportunities for UBC community members and campus residents to give input, share ideas and raise concerns through workshops, a design charrette, open houses, meetings, and surveys, resulting in over 13,000 engagement touchpoints.
We stand in solidarity with the University of Waterloo. We are sharing solidarity statements from both UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) and the Confederation of University Faculty Associations (CUFA BC).
Please see the full statement from UBC’s Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice here.
Please see the full statement from the Confederation of University Faculty Associations here.
Our 2021 Annual Report is available for view with our Annual General Meeting coming up Wednesday, June 28th.
The Faculty Association’s Income Replacement Program (IRP) provides partial salary coverage for faculty who are unable to return to the workplace at full time after illness or injury following a six month qualifying period. It is a critical part of the benefits plan provided to our members and the Association strives to ensure that it functions properly and efficiently. In October 2022, Association members advised us that they had not received their September payment from the IRP provider, Sun Life. Our professional staff alerted the University’s Benefits Manager who immediately contacted Sun Life to address the concern.
The UBCFA has responded to the Draft Workplace Accommodation Policy for UBC Employees proposed by the University. Our correspondence to Hubert Lai, Q.C., University Counsel is available at this link.
Please find the full agenda from our 2021-2022 Annual General Meeting with more background and information here.
