Announcements: Holiday Closure
The QUFA office will be closed on December 24th and will re-open at 8:00 a.m. EST on January 4th, 2021. Regards QUFA Staff
Announcements: Important Information for QUFA Members: Merit Assessment, Home Office Costs, Teaching Supports
Dear Members, I apologize for throwing so much at you at the end of the term and in one email. Please save this email or print it to review again in January if you cannot process it now. It contains important information about the next round of merit assessment in → Learn More
Announcements: Annual/Biennial Reports of Performance and Merit Assessments in 2021 for QUFA Members
Dear Members, We know many of you are concerned about reporting on and being assessed for merit for 2020. Queen’s and QUFA have negotiated a variance to the biennial merit cycle that changes reporting requirements for some of you. It is a complicated matter where one must keep in mind → Learn More
Announcements: QUFA Office will be closed on October 30
Following Principal Deane’s declaration of October 30th as a Queen’s holiday, QUFA will also be closed that day.
Announcements: ScholarstrikeCanada statement
QUFA supports the “Scholar Strike” for racial justice and an end to anti-Black police violence and anti-Indigenous colonial violence which will take place on September 9-10 in Canada. We encourage faculty, academic librarians, and other staff to organize their work in order to join, and permit students to join, the → Learn More
Announcements: Tuition Support Deadline – November 1, 2020
The deadlines to apply for the 2020-2021 academic year are November 1 for the fall term and February 28 for the winter term. The application is now available on-line. Please contact your Human Resources Advisor, not QUFA, if you have any questions about this benefit. Deadlines are strict, so please → Learn More
Announcements: Advisory on Outfitting Home Offices
Dear Members, There have been a number of questions raised with QUFA around purchasing equipment for home offices in light of COVID-19 and remote working. There are a number of options available to you to pay for the purchase of equipment for a home office and to manage remote teaching. → Learn More
Announcements: QUFA Message About Remote Teaching
Dear QUFA Members, As we approach the beginning of Fall 2020, it is clear that everyone is working hard to make a remote term successful. Given the number of novelties and uncertainties in moving to remote delivery of courses, we have become aware of many, sometimes conflicting or confusing, communications → Learn More
Announcements: NOTICE OF THE QUFA SPRING GENERAL MEETING Thursday May 21th, 1:00 pm via Zoom
NOTICE OF THE S P R I N G G E N E R A L M E E T I N G TO: All Members of Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) Faculty, Librarians and Archivists DATE: May 7, 2020 Dear QUFA Members The Spring General Meeting of the → Learn More
Announcements: Important: Deadline for nominations and statements of interest for the QUFA Executive Committee election is THURSDAY May 7 at 1 pm
Dear QUFA Members please note a few important dates that are coming up in May regarding QUFA Spring General Meeting (SGM) and the election of Executive committee members. May 7 – All candidates for open Executive positions (Treasurer, Secretary, Grievance Chair, JCAA Co-Chair, QULA Representative, Equity Representative, one Member at → Learn More