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preliminary Agenda

Full Council agenda with hyperlinks to meeting materials.

Note: Meeting documents are posted online as soon as they become available for publication.
  • THURSDAY, APRIL 23

  • 01. Call to order and announcements by Speaker

  • 02. Adoption of agenda

  • 03. Report of Elections and Resolutions Committee

    a) Nominations Report
    b) Call for Nominations for Speaker, Deputy Speaker, and Elections and Resolutions Committee
    c) Rules of Order
    d) CAUT By-law 
    e) Primer on the Use of Parliamentary Procedure to Ensure Democratic and Efficient Meetings
  • 04. Adoption of Minutes of Meeting of Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, 2019

    Draft Minutes of Meeting of Nov 29 to Dec 1, 2019
  • 05. President’s Remarks

     
  • 06. Recommendations for CAUT Awards

    a) Bernice Schrank
    b) Donald C. Savage
  • 07. Presentation

    • — David Coletto, Abacus Data
  • 08. Guest Speakers

    a) Dr. Charles Ofosu Marfo, President, University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG)
    b) TBA
  • 09. Presentation of the Sarah Shorten Award

  • FRIDAY, APRIL 24

  • 09:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 10. Forum for Executive Committee Candidates

  • 11. Report on Administration and Finance: Part I

    • — Budget 2020-2021 Review (for information and discussion only)
  • 11:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 12. Report on the Governance Structures of CAUT and the CAUT Defence Fund

    • — Mark Blumberg, Blumberg Segal LLP
  • 13. Political Action and Lobbying

    a) Federal Budget
    b) MP Outreach
    c) Provincial Snapshots
    d) Fair Employment for Contract Academic Staff
    e) Copyright
  • — CAUT Academic Freedom Fund Membership Meeting

    • (11:30–12:00)
  • 14:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 14. Panel Discussion

    Counting Out the Scholars: Performance-based funding and metrics in post-secondary education

    Janet Morrill, University of Manitoba Faculty Association
    Jean Sauvageau, Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations
     Marc Spooner, University of Regina
  • 16:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 15. Reports from Guests and Affiliated Organizations

    a) Report from the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d’université (FQPPU)
    b) Report from the Fédération nationale des enseignantes et des enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ-CSN)
    c) Annual Report of the CAUT Defence Fund
    d) Report from the National Union of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (NUCAUT)
    e) Report of the Harry Crowe Foundation
  • 16. Reports

    a)  Collective Bargaining
    b) Education
    c) Occupational Health and Safety
    d) Organizing 
  • 17. CAUT Policies, Model Clauses and Administrative Procedures and Guidelines

    a) PS on Academic Administrative Searches
    b) PS on Criteria and Procedures in Renewal Tenure and Promotion Decisions
    c) PS on Renewal of Academic Staff
    d) MC on Openness and Transparency
    e) APG – Policy on Reimbursement of Delegates’ Expenses for Council
    f) APG – Policy on Reimbursement of Expenses for Members of CAUT Committees
    g) APG – Policy on Reimbursement of Participants’ Expense for CAUT Workshops
  • 17:15 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 18. Presentation of the Academic Librarians’ and Archivists’ Distinguished Service Award

    • —  TBA
  • SATURDAY, APRIL 25

  • 09:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 19. Election of Officers

    a) President
    b) Vice-President
    c) Treasurer
  • 09:30 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 20. Report of the Executive Director

    a) Academic Freedom
     
    i) Issues
      A) Extra-mural Academic Freedom
    ii) Investigations
      A) Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies (UBC)
      B) Atlantic Veterinary College (UPEI)
      C) Horne (Dalhousie)
    iii) Cases
      A) Martime College of Forest Technology
    iv) Litigation Report
  • 11:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 21. Election of Chairs of Standing Committees

    a) Chair of the Collective Bargaining and Economic Benefits Committee
    b) Co-Chair of the Equity Committee
    c) Chair of the Librarians’ and Archivists’ Committee
  • 22. International Matters

    a) CAUT International Solidarity Work
     
    i) University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (UTAG)
    ii) Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE)
    iii) College Lecturers Association of Zimbabwe (COLAZ)
    iv) Pakistan (Faculty Professional Development Program)
    v) Malaysian Academic Movement
    b) Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
    c) Educational International
    d) International Labour Organization
    e) UNESCO
  • 12:00 — Nominations for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Council Close

    • Ballots for elections will be circulated between 15:15 and 15:30
  • 14:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 23. Election of Representatives-at-large

    a) Representative-at-large (Aboriginal)
    b) Representative-at-large (Francophone)
    c) Representative-at-large (Quebec)
    d) Representative-at-large (General) [2 to be elected]
  • 24. Annual Reports of CAUT Standing Committees

    a) Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee
    b) Collective Bargaining & Economic Benefits Committee
    c) Contract Academic Staff Committee
    d) Equity Committee
    e) Librarians’ and Archivists’ Committee
  • 25. Annual Reports

    a) Report of the President
    b) Report of the Executive Director
  • 26. Reports of Committees of the CAUT Executive Committee

    a) Francophones' Committee
    b) Clinical Faculty Committee
    c) College and Institute Faculty Committee
  • 27. Reports of Working Groups

    a) Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education Working Group
    b) Ad Hoc Working Group on Governance
  • 28. Membership on CAUT Standing Committees

  • 16:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 29. Election of Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Members of Elections and Resolutions Committee

  • 30. Resolutions from Member Associations

  • 17:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 31. CAUT Awards for Journalistic Excellence

  • SUNDAY, April 26

  • 09:00 — ORDER OF THE DAY

  • 32. Report on Administration and Finance: Part II

    a) 2018-19 Audited Financial Statements (for information)
    b) Financial Report – Nine months ending March 31, 2020 (to be distributed at the Council meeting)
    c) Budget 2020-21 [for approval — see 11 (a)]
    d) Appointment of Auditor
    e) Appointment of Executive Director (in camera)
  • 33. Review of Minutes of Meetings of the Executive Committee

    a) Meeting of September 13-14, 2019
    b) Meeting of November 26-27, 2019
  • 34. Coalitions

    a) International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group
    b) Public Education Network
    c) Canadian Consortium for Research
  • 35. Report on Publications

  • 36. Recipients of CAUT Dedicated Service Awards

    • — Recipients of CAUT Dedicated Service Awards
  • 37. Organizational Resolutions

    • — Signing Authorities
  • 38. Other Business

Note:

Meeting documents are posted online as soon as they become available for publication.