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The Faculty Association is very concerned about proposed revisions to Policy 88, Intellectual Products (formerly called Patents and Licenses). Some of the elements, if implemented, would appear to seriously erode your intellectual property rights, and negatively impact your academic freedom.
We have attached the Association&rsquos response to the proposed changes, and you can also find it here. A copy of the proposed policy is here. I urge you to review our concerns, and send an email to Hubert Lai, University Counsel, copied to us, to express your concerns. Comments on the revised policy are due to Mr. Lai by October 7, so you must act quickly. We do not think it is in the best interest of faculty members to have the revised policy implemented and I think a strong signal should be sent about this to the University.
Respectfully,
Nancy Langton
President
In a previous email, I described the problem of having Faculty holding management positions representing the voices of rank-and-file Faculty on the Board of Governors. The Faculty Association’s interpretation of the University Act is that BoG representatives for faculty positions should represent non-management faculty voices. Under the Collective Agreement, Associate Deans are management and Heads are not. New language in the collective agreement supports this: “In addition, they (Heads) represent the views of their Departments to the Deans and the University at large.” In other words, there is a difference between non-management faculty voices and management faculty voices.
I urge you to vote in the Board of Governor’s election for a second individual to represent the voices of non-management faculty. Be sure to visit the University’s website sometime this week to cast your vote.
Best,
Nancy
Nancy Langton, Ph.D.
President, UBC Faculty Association
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I am very pleased to present to our members the results of two Working Groups jointly sponsored by the Faculty Association and the Provost to examine pay equity in salaries of full-time tenure stream professors at UBCV.
The committees were struck at the beginning of 2010 with the following mandates:
On February 3, 2011, the Faculty Association Status of Women Committee presented a panel discussion on male/female faculty pay equity and other gender-related issues at UBC. Presentations included:
Equity: Key Issues for Women Faculty at UBC (view video)
Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap in Professional Salaries at UBC (view video)
Fixing Pay Inequity at UBC: Recommendations from the Structural Measure and Resolution Tactics (SMART) Working Group (view video)
The Science of Unconscious Bias (view video)
For copies of the handouts, select this link.
