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2010
2009
- [New] Part-time Faculty Shortlisted --
Quebec Writer?s Awards. Congratulations to part-time faculty members
short-listed for this year?s literary awards from the Quebec Writer?s
Federation:
Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, Jon Paul Fiorentino, for his book
Stripmalling, ECW Press.
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Patrick McDonagh, for his book
Idiocy: A Cultural History, Liverpool University Press.
Members interested in attending the QWF Gala on Tuesday, November 17th
at the Lion D?Or, are requested to confirm with the
QWF.
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Inter-Union Council
Supports 2009 Centraide Campaign. [Microsoft Word]
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Women's Art of the Shoah: Informing, Inspiring, and Commemorating. By
Karin Doerr. The Fifth International Conference Women and the Holocaust.
International Conference Women and the Holocaust. Beit Berl, Israel.
October 26-28/2009.
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President's Letter.
[Fall 2009] [Microsoft Word]
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CUPFA FAQ for Benefits. [PDF]
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CUPFA FAQ for Large Class Stipends.
[Microsoft Word]
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Deductions, Large Class Stipends, Medical Benefits.
[Microsoft Word]
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Beauty Is Everywhere. By Gary
Schwartz, Eric Hove, Muhammad Abdul Al Khabir. Guitar, alto sax and
trombone play original and standard tunes from a different point of
view. Friday, October 23, 2009, 20:00. Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, 7141
Sherbrooke Street West. Admission: $12. $5 for students and seniors.
Free for Con U students with ID.
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Lisa M. Chalifoux, author of
'Spotty & Eddie Learn to Compromise', will be having a book signing on
October 18, 2009, 1-3 PM, at the Coles Bookstore at the Cavendish Mall
(5800 Cavendish Boulevard).
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Retroactive Salaries Delayed.
[PDF]
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Message to Members -
Retroactive Salaries. [Microsoft Word]
- CUPFA Collective Agreement. [PDF] This is the 2002-2012 CUPFA Collective Agreement that was
ratified at the Special General Assembly, June 17, 2009.
- [Important for CUPFA Collective Agreement] Special General Assembly
for the
Ratification of the new CUPFA Collective Agreement;
Wednesday, June 17, 4:30 P.M., The Nouvel Hotel,
1740 Rene Levesque West (Corner of Rene Levesque/St. Mathieu). Please read the Final Offer document carefully, as it will be the subject of a vote.
- The CUPFA Contract Negotiations are now over. There is now a Deal
in Principle.
- [Important for Summer 2009 Teaching]
New Appendix H (Application for Teaching Form) and Pointers. More ...
- Applying for Teaching? More ...
- CUPFA Workshops.
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The 2008-2009 Professional Development News. [PDF]
- "John Lennon and Yoko Ono: The Music of Love and Peace" Lecture. By
Craig Morrison. Wednesday, April 1, 2009. 11:30 AM. Montreal Museum of
Fine Arts, Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings, Michal and Renata Hornstein
Pavilion, 1379 Sherbrooke St. W. Free Admission.
- Concordia University's
FOFA Gallery (Faculty of Fine
Arts Gallery) presents Raw/Medium Rare/Well Done Showcasing
Concordia University's Ceramics Program, Past and Present. 1515 St.
Catherine W., EV 1-715, March
23-April 17; Vernissage: March 26, 6-8 PM.
- CUPFA Annual General Meeting. Date: Thursday, March 12,
2009; Time: 4:45 P.M.; Place: Hall Building, H-763.
- The Twelfth Annual Roots of Rock and Roll Concert - That'll Be the
Day: Buddy Holly and Friends Remembered. By Craig Morrison. Friday,
February 6, 8:00 PM. Oscar Peterson Concert Hall.
More
...
- The Gladstone Hotel's 3rd Annual Juried Textile Exhibition; Participating Artists Laura Endacott and Others; Toronto, Ontario; November 7, 2008-January 4, 2009.
2008
- Geordie Productions Theatre
presents The
Little Prince at D.B.Clarke Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.,
November 28 at 7 PM, November 29 at 3 PM, November 30 and December 6-7 at 1 PM and
3 PM Harry Standjofski, Theatre Department, composed the music and is
in the play. There is an article (Ziggy Stardust meets the Dalai Lama) in The Gazette.
- Exposition Galerie Lafayette Puits d'Huile - Portraits "Offshore".
By Harlan Johnson. Lafayette, Louisiana; October 11- November 8, 2008.
- Quebec Part-time Faculty Unions Mobilise Legislation Controlling
University Governance. Le Devoir. November 7, 2008.
- Concordia's Centraide Campaign. [PDF]
- Academy of Art Video Art (AAVA) Red Carpet Gala Awards Night. Date/Time: Sunday, April 20, 2008;
8:00 PM; Place: Sala Rossa, 4848 St-Laurent, Montreal; Cost: Free.
Featuring: Screenings of video and performance works by Concordia
student-artists.
- Vernissage: Women's Art Society of Montreal, Annual Juried Art Show and
Sale; Date/Time: Thursday, April 3, 6-8 P.M.; Place: Ogilvy's (Tudor
Hall; 5th Floor); Exhibition: April 3-10.
- Gary Schwartz Jazz CD Launch: "Public Transport Project";
Date/Time: Friday and
Saturday, April 11/12, 2008, 9 P.M.; Place: Dieze Onze Jazz Club/Resto,
4115a St. Denis; Cover $8.
- Film Presentation (German with English subtitles). "Before the Fall",
Directed By Dennis Gansel. Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 7:30 P.M.
Introduced by Dr. Karin Doerr, Department of Classics, Modern Languages
and Linguistics, Concordia University. Jewish Public Library, 5151 Cote
Ste-Catherine, $7 Jewish Public Library Members/Students, $12
Non-Members. Phone: (514) 345-2627-3017.
- Robin Chemtov (piano) and Gail
Issenman (voice), will perform for the Women's Art Society of Montreal:
"All that Jazz and More." Tuesday, March 25, 1:30-2:30 P.M. McCord
Museum, J. A. Bombardier Auditorium. Any CUPFA member interested in
attending should contact Leslie Cohen (vipcupfa@yahoo.com) or see her at
the auditorium before the start of the concert.
- CUPFA Press Conference. Date: Wednesday, March
26, 2008; Time: 1-2 P.M.; Place: Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Rene-Levesque Boulevard.
- Letter to The Gazette. By Leslie
Cohen.
More ...
- Mobilization-Related
Advertisement [PDF] in The Gazette.
- Council of Representatives Meeting,
Thursday, January 24, 2008, 4:45 P.M., H-767
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Free T-Shirt! If you did not
get your T-shirt at the last meeting or during the Campus Equity Week,
please come in to our office to get one!
- Confused about the new School of
General Studies? So is everyone else. Continuing
Education Assessment:
CUCEPTFU News, April
2007, Special Edition on Leadership and the new School of General
Studies.
2007
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Retour de Rome Photograph Exhibition. By Clara Gutsche
and David Miller; October 20-November 24, 12-5 PM;
Occurrence, 460 St.
Catherine W. (Opposite Saint James Church), Suite #307;
514-397-0236; Artists Present: November 24, 3-5 PM.
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Exhibit at Galerie
McClure. By Francine Potvin; Exposition/Exhibition, November 2-24, 2007; Vernissage, Thursday, November 1 at 6 PM; 350 Avenue Victoria,
Montreal; 514-488-9558.
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The 2007 Weekend to End Breast Cancer.
Montreal, August 24-26, 2007.
Angela Ford-Rosenthal, Secretary on the CUPFA Executive along with
about 2600 others
walked 60 KM to make a real difference in the fight to end breast cancer.
She managed to raise $2190 for the Segal Cancer Centre at the Jewish
General Hospital in Montreal, and would like to heartily thank all those
who supported her towards this worthy cause!
More ...
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Stone Days Launch: A New Web Project.
By Barbara Todd. Thursday, June 7, 2007, 7 PM; OBORO New Media
Laboratory, 4001, rue Berri, #200, Montr?l; 514-844-3250. Stone Days is
a diary of days. All kinds of days: good days, bad days, on days, off
days, slow days, stone days. For the launch, a selection of Stone Days
drawings will be on view and the artist will give a brief presentation
of her work.
- CUPFA Supports CUSSU/CUSSUT's Strike Mandate.
- CUPFA Annual General Meeting. Thursday, March 29, 2007
at 4:45 P.M. in Hall Building H-767.
- Concordia Centraide Campaign
2006-2007. Participate in Concordia's Centraide Campaign! There are
events and
weekly prizes.
- David Moscovitz, Member of CUPFA Executive Steering Committee,
on the BDC Case Challenge at Vanier College:
Watch it on YouTube.
- Jonathan Levinson joins the Office of the President.
- The 2006-2007 Professional Development News.
[PDF]
- The 2006-2007
Small Claims Form. [PDF]
- Craig Morrison & The Momentz Performance. February
2, 2007, 8:00 P.M. 10th Annual Roots of Rock & Roll Concert. Blue Moon:
Pop and Rock through the decades. Tickets available at the box office
and on the Admission network: $9 for adults, $6 for seniors, $4 for
students (service charges applicable).
More ...
- Notice of Special General Assembly for the CUPFA Membership on
Contract Negotiations and the University's "Final Offer".
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 4:45 P.M. in H-767 Hall Building.
- L�artiste multidisciplinaire
Lise-H??e Larin explore les limites de la sculpture et de la
peinture ?l'aide de ses animations non-figuratives en trois dimensions.
Ses " photos simul?s " sont autant de plans fixes saisis par la cam?a
logicielle qu'elle d?lace dans sa mise-en-sc?e virtuelle. Ce sont des
images d'un univers algorithmique ?range qu'elle a construit avec des
polygones et qui n'a aucun ?uivalent dans le r?l. Ces images construites
sont d?oncertantes car nos sens y cherchent en vain une r??ence ?la
r?lit? Ici, la repr?entation est davantage une recherche cognitive qu�une
imitation de la nature. Lise-Helene Larin is a
multidisciplinary artist whose non-figurative 3D animated films question
sculpture and painting. As the virtual camera infiltrated her work, it
framed, froze and fixed her virtual mise-en-sc?e into simulated photos
which play on perception and through which she developed an unusual
process of representation by "constructing" images using virtual
polygons arranged in space. She thereby creates strange worlds the
nature of which is "algorithmical", figurations that escape photographic
representation as the referent from reality is now absent.
Representation in this case is more of a cognitive research than a skill
to mimic nature. More ...
2006
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Baphomet / Tramontano. By Bonnie Baxter. November 15,
2006-January 13, 2007. FOFA Gallery Vitrines, EV Building,
Concordia University. The FOFA Gallery Vitrines is featuring Bonnie
Baxter's series of ten large digital prints titled Baphomet and her
video, Tramontano (music by composer Michael Oesterle). Baphomet's
stunning imagery uses layering to create a self-portrayal that
references the individual while alienating the image. Starting from a
series of "head-shots" the artist layers these photographs with images
drawn from a collection amassed over 30 years. Using digital photography
and printing Baxter is able to produce an infinite array of combinations
that redefine and recreate the portraits. The result is a series that
speaks of the ever-shifting identity of the individual, as writer
Christine Unger states, "they insist that we are different people at
each moment in our life, a blend of body and spirit infused with the
significance of a specific time and place." A reception to celebrate the
exhibitions will be held on Tuesday, December 5, 5:30- 7:30 PM, FOFA
Gallery Atrium.
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From Michele Delisle:
Invitation for the DELISLE Show. December 7, 2006.
Special Showing of Chez Schwartz, November 30, 2006; 7:30 PM, Dorshei
Emet (Synagogue), 18 Cleve Road, Hampstead.
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Ruth Klueger, "Landscapes of Memory". Lecture based
on memoir of her life in Nazi Vienna, her experience in the camps and in
postwar Europe and New York. Introduction: Dr. Karin Doerr, Concordia
University. Main sponsor: Consulate General of the Federal Republic of
Germany. Co-sponsored by The Paul Trepman Memorial Lecture Fund of the
Jewish Public Library and of the Montreal Holocaust Centre, and the
Canadian Centre for German and European Studies. Reception: Wednesday,
November 29, 2006 at 7:30 P.M. Gelber Conference Centre, 1 Cummings
Square [Corner of Cte St. Catherine & Westbury Avenue]. Information:
(514) 345-2627 extension 3017.
More ...
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Getting Your Flu Vaccine. The Influenza vaccination
campaign from the Department of Public Health will begin November 13,
2006. ...
More ...
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Jon Paul Fiorentino's collection of poetry entitled The Theory of the
Loser Class (Coach House Books) was highlighted in the fall, 2006
edition of the Concordia University Magazine (p.31). Jon is a part-time
faculty member in the Department of English. Daniel Goldberg of the CUV
writes: "Playing on the work of 19th-century social theorist Thorstein
Veblen's groundbreaking study of the "leisure class," Fiorentino does
for the lost and the lonely, the alienated and the geeked out what
Veblen did for the nouveau riche: identify a culture, establish a voice,
declare a manifesto." The book has also just been shortlisted for
the A.M. Klein Prize for
poetry!
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Premiere of Chez
Schwartz. Wednesday, October 25, 8:15 PM, La Cite, 3575
Avenue du Parc.
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Chez Schwartz is a feature length documentary about Montreal's landmark
deli. It will be shown as the opening film for the 8th annual
Reconstructionist Film Festival. Tickets are $8 per showing, or $25 for
a festival pass for all films. There is more
information about the
festival. Chez Schwartz has had great reviews and has screened to
packed halls at Canadian festivals. There was a review of Chez Schwartz
in the Globe & Mail, Saturday, October 21, 2006, by Guy Dixon. For
details, please contact Barry
Lazar.
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Art Exhibition: Adele Beaudry, 5 Dessins en Forme de
Question, 12 Octobre - 12 Novembre, Hotel Gault, 449 rue Ste-Helene,
Vieux-Montreal; Tous les jours, des 15h.
- Levinas: Ethics of Encounter. Curators: Sandra Buckley and Lorraine Oades;
September 17-19, 2006;
Opening Reception: September 16, 7:00 PM;
Contact: Curators 514-826-4986. More ... [PDF]
- Campus Equity Week: October 24-26, 2006; 10 A.M.-2 P.M.; McConnell Library Building.
- Campus Equity Week:
A Call To Action. By Judith Grad. [Microsoft
Word]
- CTLS and CUPFA will be offering a teacher training workshop, Sunday,
October 29, 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. at Loyola. Preference is given to regular
part-time faculty with less than 30 credits, but anyone interested
should contact us. It is free and lunch will be provided. Deadline to
register is October 10, 2006.
Brochure.
[Microsoft Word]
- Shuffle! Friday, September 29, 1:00 P.M. Read about
CUPFA Support for Shuffle 2006.
[Microsoft Word]
- Visual Conversations: The Centre for the Arts
in Human Development at the Museum at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. By Lenore
Vosberg and Elizabeth Anthony. 2200 Crescent Street, Until August 28, 2006. More ... [Microsoft Word]
- Mother's Day Fundraiser! The
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science (ENCS) has established a scholarship fund.
This week they are organizing a fund raiser and will be selling chocolates. With Mother's
Day approaching, if you are planning on buying something sweet, why not buy from ENCS and
help needy students in the process. They will be selling chocolates for $10 per box on May
10, 11, and 12 from noon to 1:30 in the Engineering and Visual Arts building (Guy and St.
Catherine) on the ENCS Mezzanine.
- Professional Development. In light of the fact that the University is
closed on Friday, April 14 and Monday, April 17, the Deadline for Professional Development has been moved to April
18.
- New Parental Leave Insurance.
Qu?ec Parental Insurance Plan/Regime
Quebecois D'Assurance Parentale.
- Concordia University Department of Music presents Jazz Choir; Students
directed by Jeri Brown, works by Tadd Dameron, Duke Ellington, John Lennon and Paul
McCartney, plus African Dreams, an original composition by John Winiarz. Thursday, April
6, 8:00 PM; Tickets (available at the door only): $5 general admission, free for students
with ID. Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, (514)
848-4848.
- Mute / Sense Veu / En Silence de
Florence Figols, S?ie des Majeurs; Les 16, 17, 18 Mars 2006 ?20 h 30, Le
19 mars ?16 h; 840 Cherrier, Montr?l (M?ro Sherbrooke); Billetterie: (514) 525-1500
(15$).
- CUPFA Association General Meeting. Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2006;
Time: 4:45 P.M.; Place: Hall Building H-767. Agenda
[Microsoft Word].
- The 2006 Canadian University Software Engineering
Conference (CUSEC 2006), Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada, January 19-21, 2006.
- The CUPFA Newsletter "CUPFA News", Volume 21,
Number 1, November 2005 is available.
- Professional Development News 2005-2006 is
available. This includes information on both Professional Development Grants and on Small
Claims. Application Forms for these are available separately.
Please check and adhere to the deadlines in each case.
- Concordia
University Holidays for 2005 - 2006.
2005
- Thematic Exhibit "Picturing Her" by the curator Dr. Loren Lerner opens on
Thursday, December 1st at the McCord Museum. For further details, see the official announcement.
- Deadline for Applications for Professional Development: Monday, October 17th.
- Human Resources and Employee Relations.
Concordia University. Benefits > Benefit Forms.
- Google @ Your Service.
- Shuffle Photos. Courtesy:
News@Concordia.ca.
- Some details on the 2005 Campus Equity Week are available.
- The
Government of Canada Introduces Bill to Amend the Copyright Act.
- The list of Who's Who has been modified.
- A new section on CUPFA Member Contributions!
- Concordia University Regular Part-Time Teaching Application Form Information Sheet. More ...
- The sections of the English and French versions of the Collective Agreement are now available in a
hyperlinked form.
- The CUPFA Knowledge Base has been extensively modified. Your input
is welcome.
- Concordia's 16th Annual Shuffle: Friday,
September 30 at 1 PM. Please see the description
with CUPFA's role in the shuffle [Microsoft Word] for more details.
- Signing of Part-Time Contracts - New Fine Arts/Engineering Building.
The Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science will be
moving into the new building (MacKay and St. Catherine). The part-time contracts will
likely now be signed in the new building in the Dean's offices.
- Fine Arts Members. Fine Arts will only be moving there on July 13; the deadline to sign
part-time contracts is July 15. The solution is of course to sign your part-time contracts
between July 1 and July 12 where you have usually signed them in Maltide's office in
VA-250. If you sign your teaching contract after July 12 you will need to go to the new
building to EV 002-767. The Fine Arts administrative offices are there on the 2nd floor.
In any case, call beforehand at 848-2424-4688 to make sure.
- Engineering and Computer Science Members. The Faculty of Engineering and Computer
Science will be moving on May 16. Their offices will be closed on May 13 and May 16 and
re-open in the new digs on May 17th. All members will need to go to the new building to
sign their teaching contracts. The new location for signing the contracts will be in EV
002-279 and there you will find the usual people (Donna Hum, phone 848-2424-3098, and
Lilla Pernatozzi, phone 848-2424-3056) you deal with.
- All Faculties. Please make sure you sign your part-time teaching contracts before the
deadline of July 15.
- 2005 Artists for Artists Art Auction: By Playwrights'
Workshop Montr?l. Thursday, May 19, 2005, 6:00 PM, National Theatre School of Canada
(5030 St-Denis). Playwriters are a nationally mandated Canadian play development
organization and a professional theatre centre dedicated to the development of
contemporary Canadian work and new writers for the stage. The Artists for Artists Art
Auction will have works by many CUPFA members from the Department of Studio Arts,
including Adele Beaudry, Ken Peters, Dan Oxley, Bernard Gamoy, Christian Knudsen, and
Susan Scott. George Bowser (of Bowser and Blue) will host the event. The details of works being auctioned are
available.
- To celebrate CUPFA's 15th Anniversary, there will be unveiling of the Holly King's
photographic mural Seascape and the Sublime, Engineering, Computer Science, and Visual
Arts Integrated Complex, May 18, 2005, 5 PM. RSVP: By May 09, 2005, Phone: 848-2424-3691;
E-Mail: cupfa@vax2.concordia.ca. For further
details, please refer to the official invitation
[PDF].
2004
- CUPFA and Concordia Community
Campaign.
- CUPFA Forms related to Travel-Related Expenses have been
updated.
- The Volume 20, Number 1 of CUPFA Newsletter is released.
- Selected Collection of Photographs from the CUPFA
15th Anniversary Gala!
- CUPFA Constitution has been modified.
- Appendix H ("Regular Part-time Teaching Application Form") has been
successfully negotiated. Starting this year with the May 1, 2004 posting of courses all
members must use this form. A French version of the application form will soon be
available. More ...
- Building Concordia's Future > CUPFA Art Integration Competition. To
celebrate its 15th Anniversary, CUPFA is
commissioning a major work of art that will be installed in the new Engineering, Computer
Science & Visual Arts Integrated Complex in Spring 2005.
- CUPFA Elections.
- Election at the CUPFA Annual General Meeting. Date: Thursday, March 17, 2004. Time: 4:45
P.M. Place: Hall Building H-767.
- Advance Polls. Date: Saturday-Sunday, March 12-13, 2005. Time: 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Place: CUPFA Offices, K-Annex, Suite 103. More ...
- CUPFA - Professional Development - Small Claims Application Form Available. [Deadline:
3 PM, January 17, 2005] More ...
- Campus Equity Week. November 22, 23 & 24, 2004 from 10:00 A.M. to
2:00 P.M. LB Atrium, 1400 de Maisonneuve W.
- 15 Years of CUPFA! CUPFA is celebrating its 15th Anniversary. In
conjunction with other planned activities, the Association will host a Gala Reception and
Dinner on Saturday, October 16, 2004 at the Bonaventure Hilton Hotel. All members are
cordially invited, however, due to limited space only the first 250 members confirming
their presence will be able to attend the Gala at no cost. For further details, please get in touch with us.
- Conference on Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) VI. Chicago, Illinois,
USA. August 6-8, 2004. More ...
- Next Deadline for Professional Development Applications: April 15, 2004.
More ...
- Application and Budget forms available on the Web Site.
- Information and Guidelines available from CUPFA.
- Also consult Article 17 of the Collective Agreement.
- CUPFA Election for the position of Secretary on the Executive. More ...
- Candidates:
- Mary Silas, Engineering and Computer Science.
- David Vivian, Fine Arts.
- Election at the CUPFA Annual General Meeting. Date: Thursday, March 25, 2004. Time: 4:45
P.M. Place: Hall Building H-767.
- Advance Polls. Date: Saturday-Sunday, March 20-21, 2004. Time: 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Place: CUPFA Offices, K-Annex, Suite 103.
- CUPFA Annual General Meeting and Notice of Election. More ...
- Date: Thursday, March 25, 2004. Time: 4:45 P.M. Place: Hall Building H-767.
- Election of Secretary, CUPFA Executive.
- Ratification of new CUPFA Constitution.
2003
- Call for Nominations Board of Governors and Senate Faculty Councils.
Regular part-time faculty members in their respective faculties are invited to consider
running for a position on University bodies and councils. It is an opportunity to get
involved and be a part of the team! Nomination form is included in the CUPFA News, Volume 19, Number 2, December 2003 [PDF].
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