After four days of working out a few kinks in the various areas of organization (food, staffing) and picketing (more gloves and tuques and parking issues), we planned celebratory fifth-day activities. Thursday evening (the 23rd- Strike Day 4), flying pickets joined us from York, Laurentian, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan universities, and headed out to the lines in the early morning. Since the city plows had not passed when the picketing began, picket captains, Shannon Murray and

The following is the UPEI Faculty Association’s response to UPEI Administration’s March 26th message to the campus community. Download: PDF

A watershed moment for opinions of teaching surveys (or student evaluations of teaching) (SOTS/SETs) in Canadian postsecondary education came with the 2018 Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) arbitration ruling which recognized that the “body of research has concluded for years: student evaluations are not a barometer with which to judge a professor’s teaching effectiveness and therefore should not be used for employment-related decisions such as promotion and tenure” (Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2018). 

Recently, UPEI Administration sent a message to UPEI students that purports to address students’ concerns around negotiations. We believe this message is misleading and have marked it accordingly. Download: PDF | Image PDF