Fall 2023 Sessional Travel Fund Results

May 2024

1. President’s Message: Job Action Task Force and Response to Bill 18

2. Strikes across Canada

3. No salary adjustment from gain sharing provision

4. Increasing pensionable service

5. Know your rights for sick time

6. Results from 2024 Surveys on the Performance of Deans and Equivalents

7. Fall 2023 Sessional Travel Fund Results

8. Research security restrictions

9. Faculty Association Board of Directors Election Results

10. Audited financial statements for 2022-23

The Faculty Association reviewed more than 60 applications for the Sessional Travel Fund for Fall 2023. This is the highest volume of applications in recent years, and the total funding requested in the Fall semester was about six times the $30,000 annual allotment. Congratulations to the following sessional members who were awarded funding for the Fall 2023 application round:

David Barrios Giraldo – History
Ramona Beatty – Political Science
Bernice Cheung – School of Creative & Performance
Shannon Clare – Werklund School of Education
Sandra Duggleby – Werklund School of Education
Muna Esheba – Economics
Steven Firth – Philosophy
Amy Gausvik – Family Medicine
Kathleen James – LCR Learning
Polly Knowlton Cockett – Werklund School of Education
Peter Peltekov – School of LLLC
Robert Radovanovic – Geomatics Engineering
Laura Reid – LCR Learning
Lili Tayefi Nasr Abadi – School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape
Angie Tucker – Anthropology and Archaeology