News & Announcements

2024 Fall GM – Tuesday, October 15, 3:00-4:30 PM – Now Hybrid!

Attention Camosun College Faculty Association Members, your Fall General Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 15, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM, on Zoom AND at Lansdowne in Wilna Thomas 201.  Please check your Outlook Calendar to make sure you’ve received our invite and link.  If you haven’t gotten an invite, please contact us. If you’ve never attended a CCFA General Meeting before, GMs are now all HYBRID on alternating campuses, this time it is on Lansdowne! They run on time or even occasionally conclude early.  This is an important meeting for all Term AND Continuing Faculty members to attend!  We’ll update you on our progress in preparing for our next collective agreement, hear Executive Reports, find out more about our recent Arbitration Awards, approve our Budget, and bet updates on FPSE & CCFA Committee Memberships, win Door Prizes, and provide feedback to your Union Executives on how your union is run! …

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The Confluence

Help Needed for Orange Shirt Day!

The Department of English’s Indigenization Working Group is asking for volunteers to help them as they assist in organizing Camosun’s Orange Shirt Day events. Days like the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation are emotionally burdensome days for our Indigenous colleagues and students, so it is important for non-Indigenous allies…

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Member Resources

Thinking about completing a Professional Development activity?  

Submitted on behalf of Martha McAlister The 2024-25 PD application submission deadlines are now available. Professional Development funding is available through the CCFA for both Continuing and Term faculty!  You can be reimbursed for course registration fees, conferences (and travel to them), textbooks, workshops, or other educational activities. You will find more information about Professional Development Funding at the CCFA website. Please fee free to contact us at ac.nusomac@DP-afcc or call 250-370-3655 if you have any questions, and be sure to watch for our upcoming Professional Development InfoSession this fall!

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Inadequate Parking at IU – Grievance Settlement 2024

I can’t think of a better recent example of our union “Working Together as One” than how so many members stepped up when we called on you to provide evidence for our Inadequate Parking at Interurban Grievance. Members working at Interurban submitted over 150 unique complaints documenting issues finding parking. Of these members scores of them were willing to provide direct evidence at the scheduled arbitration. Your colleagues spent hours of their time, many during their Scheduled Development, preparing with our legal counsel. Some of you were even willing to testify from abroad on your vacation. This is what solidarity…

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Know Your Rights: New LOA XX Revising & Rescinding Term Appointments

When the college cancels offerings or fails to offer diverse learning content, particularly in Arts & Science, there can be a lot of negative effects: Disruption to Student Plans: Students who were relying on a specific course to fulfill degree requirements or to maintain a certain pace of study may face disruptions. Cancelling a course they were counting on can force them to reevaluate their academic plans. Delay in Graduation: If a cancelled course was a prerequisite for other courses, students might need to wait for the next offering of that course. This delay could extend their time to graduation…

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