Tag Archive: join the dialogue

Join the Dialogue: Call for Comments on Policy AP5

We hope you’ll take the opportunity to express your views on a proposal to amend the Deans/Principals Appointment Policy (AP5) and its associated Procedures. Send us your comments by September 30, 2020.

UBCFA Response – Policy 3

The UBCFA has responded to the University’s call for comments on the Proposed Amendments to Policy 3 (Discrimination and Harassment). Our correspondence to Hubert Lai, Q.C., University Counsel is available at this link. Thank you to those members who provided their comments as we formulated our response.  

Join the Dialogue: UBC’s Proposed Policy 83

Please take the opportunity to express your views on UBC’s Proposed Policy 83 (Travel and Other Business-Related Expenses)

Join the Dialogue: UBC’s Proposed Amendments to Policy 3

Please take the opportunity to express your views on UBC’s Proposed Amendments to Policy 3 (Discrimination and Harassment).

Join the Dialogue: Proposed Amendments to Policy 93

Please take the opportunity to express your views on UBC’s Proposed Amendments to Policy 93 – Closed Meetings of the Board of Governors.

Join the Dialogue: UBC Strategic Planning Process

An invitation from The Provost and Vice-President Academic and Nancy Langton, President, UBCFA, to attend a faculty forum on UBC’s Strategic Planning Process on Monday, December 11.

Join the Dialogue: Freedom of Expression

Thank you to members who responded to our call for input on this issue. 

The University will be accepting comments until November 30.  

Join the Dialogue: UBC’s Proposed Amendments to Policy 93 – Closed Meetings of the Board of Governors

Please take the opportunity to express your views on UBC’s Proposed Amendments to Policy 93 – Closed Meetings of the Board of Governors.

Faculty Association questions and comments regarding proposed Policy 87: Research

A letter from Mark Mac Lean, President, on behalf of the UBC Faculty Association Executive Committee, to Hubert Lai, University Counsel:

“The Faculty Association is taking this opportunity to comment on, and seek clarification regarding, the proposed revisions to Policy 87. In general, the Association supports the University’s efforts to provide UBC Researchers clarity regarding the conduct and administration of research funding. Robust and innovative scholarly activity, and the academic freedom upon which it rests, is best achieved through the transparent elucidation of the rights and responsibilities of both the University and faculty at this institution. Despite our general support for the spirit of most of the revisions, the Association is concerned that the proposed Policy appears to intrude on the traditional rights of Faculty Association members by adding, omitting or altering a number of provisions in the existing Policy 87. The following is not an exhaustive list of our concerns…”

To view the letter, please follow this link.