Common Terms for QUFA Structures
- Council- QUFA Council of Representatives
- Executive – QUFA’s Executive Committee
Acronyms for QUFA, Queen’s and Community
| AMS | Alma Mater Society (Queen’s Undergraduate Student Government) |
| BU | Bargaining Unit |
| CA | Collective Agreement (QUFA) |
| CAS | Contract Academic Staff (Adjuncts) |
| CAUT | Canadian Association of University Teachers |
| CCLA | Canadian Civil Liberties Association |
| CFS | Canadian Federation of Students (CFS-O Canadian Federation of Students – Ontario) |
| CMCA | Committee to Manage the Collective Agreement (QUFA) |
| COU | Council of Ontario Universities (i.e., of their chief administrators) |
| CTAQ | Clinical Teachers’ Association of Queen’s University (faculty members in the OMA) |
| CUPE | Canadian Union of Public Employees |
| FCS | Federation of Canadian Students |
| FGM | Fall General Meeting |
| FLABU | Faculty, Librarian/Archivist Bargaining Unit |
| GREB | General Research Ethics Board |
| GROR | General Right of Reappointment for Term Adjuncts (see Article 32 in QUFA CA) |
| HEQCO | Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario |
| HRC | Human Right Code (Ontario) |
| HRO | Human Rights Office (Queen’s) |
| JCAA | Joint Committee for Administering the Agreement (QUFA & University Administration) |
| KDLC | Kingston (and District) Labour Council |
| MET | Ministry of Education and Training (Ontario) |
| MTCU | Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (Ontario) |
| NUCAUT | National Union of CAUT |
| OCUFA | Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations |
| OFL | Ontario Federation of Labour |
| OMA | Ontario Medical Association (representing all medical clinicians in province) |
| ONA | Ontario Nurses Association (representing nurses in the province) |
| OLRB | Ontario Labour Relations Board |
| OPIRG | Ontario Public Interest Research Group |
| OPSEU | Ontario Public Services Employees Union |
| PACC | Political Action and Communications Committee (QUFA) |
| PARTEQ | Partners in Technology at Queen’s |
| PER | Professional Expense Reimbursements (see Article 36 in QUFA`s FLA CA) |
| PSAC | Public Service Alliance of Canada (representing Queen’s TAs) |
| QSR | Queen’s School of Religion (formerly Queen’s Theological College) |
| QSR BU | Queen’s School of Religion Bargaining Unit |
| QUASR | Queen’s University Administrative Systems Replacement(aka People Soft) |
| QUFA | Collective Agreement (QUFA) |
| QUSA | Queen’s University Faculty Association |
| ROR | Right of Reappointments (for Sessional Adjuncts & Term Adjuncts) (Queen`s) |
| SABU | Sessional Adjunct Bargaining Unit |
| SCAD | Senate Committee on Academic Development (Queen’s) |
| SCAPTL | Senate Committee on Appointment, Promotion, Tenure and Leave (Queen’s) |
| SEEC | Senate Educational Equity Committee |
| SGM | Spring General Meeting |
| SGM | Sack, Goldblatt, Mitchell (QUFA’s outside legal counsel) |
| SGPS | Society of Graduate and Professional Students (Queen`s) |
| UAEO | University Advisor on Equity Office |
| UPAC | University Promotion Advisory Committee (Queen’s; see CA Article 32.3) |
| USAT | University Survey of Student Assessment of Teaching Sub-Committee (formerly QUEST) |
| USW | United Steel Workers (representing Queen’s Support Staff & Academic Assistants) |