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Announcing the 2023 CCFA Charity Fund Recipients

Once again, our members have nominated some amazing charitable organizations and causes to receive this year’s annual donations. It is never an easy decision deciding how to split such a small sum among so many in need. Again, it is my humble privilege to inform our members which charities your Exec selected from the applications we received. We can’t fund everything, and at the end of this post, you’ll see a list of causes you may want to support on your own. Shelbourne Community Kitchen, nominated by Nicole Kilburn Nicole Kilburn nominated Shelbourne Community Kitchen as a recipient of CCFA charitable donations this year. This small but mighty not-for-profit, located in the Shelbourne Valley, was the only organization that said yes to requests to develop this type of applied learning since it is daunting to facilitate a volunteer opportunity, after hours, for 40 students. Since 2017 the Kitchen has hosted…

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Important Minor Change to PD Application Timelines

Update from Martha McAlister, Chair of the PD Committee. Though still not up to pre-Covid levels, the PD committee continues to see an increase in applications, with more faculty travelling again and taking advantage of some very interesting learning opportunities. We recognize the application process can be challenging for some faculty, particularly if you haven’t done it in a while. It also can be very labour intensive for CCFA office staff (kudos to Peg and Laurence!) and for the PD committee, depending on how carefully the applications are filled out. We continue to look for ways to make the process more efficient for all of us. To that end, beginning April 1, 2023, applications for PD funding must be emailed to the CCFA office by noon on the Friday before the PD committee meeting. We hope this will allow the office staff and the committee a bit more time to…

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Know Your Rights: COVID-19 s.54 Settlement Re: “The Pivot”:

Hi Members, here’s a little blast from the past! It’s come to my attention that many of you have lost track of your COVID-19 Workload Complaint s.54 Settlement information. That’s totally understandable as it was well over a year ago that we finally settled it. Fast in terms of how long it normally takes to resolve a grievance, but almost two years after-the-fact, none the less. In case there are any members who didn’t carefully read it when the first email messages were sent out or had deleted it without realizing it, and for any Faculty members who may have been inadvertently overlooked. I am re-posting the information regarding the s.54 workload complaint settlement to the Confluence Blog and will send out periodic reminders between now and August 31, 2024 – when using your extra granted PD days expires.  If you were working during W2020 & S/S2020 as either Term,…

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