Other agenda items sure to generate discussion at the assembly include the governance structure of the FA and negotiations. See the complete agenda package here: General Assembly Agenda Package – November 24, 2011

So, remember to RSVP to Celine (millerc@macewan.ca), and don’t forget that all members in attendance at the General Assembly, which is taking place November 24 at 5:00 p.m. in Room 6-212 at City Centre Campus, are eligible to enter a draw for a FREE pair of tickets to the November 28 Oilers game against the Predators.

Due to an overwhelming response to the recent pre-negotiations survey, the Faculty Association Negotiations Committee wishes to inform you that the update, scheduled for Thursday, November 25th, has been cancelled. Interest in attending the pre-negotations update was also regrettably poor.

FANC received well over 400 completed surveys, with a significant volume of written comments. FANC feels it will be more productive to process all of this data and use it to table and prioritize items for negotiation, before reporting to faculty for further input.

Results from the survey will shortly be distributed to all members. A negotiations update will be scheduled for the new year.

Thank you,

Faculty Association Negotiations Committee

The Faculty Association is in the process of revising the ‘Service
Workload Guidelines’ document, which provided faculty with a list of
common service activities and proposes a method for
calculating the percent service of a member’s workload. This is
provided to faculty to promote consistency across MacEwan.

Service Workload Guidelines

The 2009 service guidelines, which provides a table of service hours, were developed from your
input. We would appreciate you reviewing the table and advising
us if the listed times are still consistent with what you actually do.

If there are additional activities you believe should be on the list,
please advise us of this as well.

Please provide your suggestions by visiting the discussion forum called workload or
email to JensenRH@MacEwan.ca.

Scholarly Activity Workload

Faculty have also inquired about a ‘Scholarly Activity Workload Guidelines’
document for quantifying scholarly activity.

We realize that the diverse nature of scholarly activity at MacEwan will make a
university-wide system difficult to prepare. However, a starting point
is to collect information on how departments quantifies scholarly
activity.

We would greatly appreciate details on how your department
quantifies scholarly activity and we will begin developing guidelines.

You can provide your suggestions in the discussion forum called workload or
email to JensenRH@MacEwan.ca.