WUFA News and Features

The Windsor University Faculty Association contributes annually to a scholarship fund and congratulates the following recipients of the 2024-2025 WUFA Scholarship:  Melissa Morand - Faculty of Education Lynn Buschemeyer - Faculty of Law Simon Chripko - Faculty of Nursing Isabelle Timar - Faculty of Science Maryam Al Mrbina - Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Reighan Burns - Faculty of Human Kinetics Aaron Berg - Faculty of Engineering Emily Beauregard - Odette School of Business…

Grand opening of the Windsor University Retirees Association's (WURA) new 'Sunset House'

The Faculty Association is proud to announce that Dr. Camisha Sibblis, Department of Sociology and Criminology is the 2025 recipient of the "Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award."  The Windsor University Faculty Association’s Status of Women, Diversity and Equity Action Committee bestows the award to honour individuals who demonstrate leadership through their contributions to creating an equity culture on campus. The award is named after Mary Lou Dietz, a late University of Windsor…

Introducing the 2025 WUFA Negotiating Team March 4, 2025 The Faculty Association is please to announce the members of the 2025 WUFA Negotiating Team: John Deukmedjian, Co-Chief Negotiator Sociology and Criminology John has been teaching at the University of Windsor for twenty-one years as a full-time professor, sixteen years tenured.  He was a national director for the RCMP evaluation of alternative dispute resolution.  He served on Senate and understands the challenges professors and instructors…

The Faculty Association is now accepting submissions for the Annual Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award. This Award was established in 2009 to recognize the outstanding contributions that an individual has made to advance human rights, social justice, diversity, inclusivity, and equity at the University of Windsor. Eligible individuals must be a current, former or a retired Windsor University Faculty Association (WUFA) member who demonstrates the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion in…

The Windsor University Faculty Association contributes annually to a scholarship fund and congratulates the following recipients of the 2023-2024 WUFA Scholarship:  Andrea Gagnon - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Amanda Jaksich - Odette School of Business Olivia Meloche - Faculty of Education Jake Chittle - Faculty of Engineering James Dunn - Faculty of Law Maia Prelipceanu - Faculty of Science  Three (3) additional recipients of the WUFA Scholarship were awarded in the Faculty…

This report provides the results of a survey about the performance of administrators at the University of Windsor who were in office for the longest time during the period of July 1, 2023 through to March 26, 2024.  The survey was sent to WUFA members on March 25, 2024.  The aim of the survey was to gauge WUFA members' perspectives about the quality and effectiveness of senior administrators, with the hope that this information can be used constructively, to promote collegial governance, and…

On July 19, 2024, the WUFA Bill 124 Negotiating Team, shared the following update with WUFA members: Colleagues, On 20 June, 2024 we shared with you that WUFA has filed a policy grievance regarding the Employer’s violation of Article 53 (Validity) of the Collective Agreement. Recall that Bill 124 imposed a 3-year, 1% wage freeze moderation period with an ambiguous preclusion of a ‘make-up’ year post moderation. Article 53 of the Collective Agreement states: “the parties agree to meet to…

On July 11, 2024, WUFA's President, Pierre Boulos, wrote to the WUFA membership regarding the agreement made between the Liberation Zone Team/UWSA and University Administration: Colleagues, As many of you have heard, the students in the Liberation Zone Team (the student encampment), the University of Windsor Students Alliance (UWSA), and the University Administration have reached an agreement.  (The text of the agreement can be found here.) WUFA is pleased that a resolution, through civil discourse,…

On June 26, 2024, WUFA's Executive wrote to the University President regarding the closure of University Players and the re-imagining of EPICentre.

On June 20, 2024 the WUFA Faculty Council voted to file a policy grievance regarding the Employer’s violation of Article 53 (Validity) of the Collective Agreement.

Family, friends and colleagues gathered on June 6, 2024 to honour Dr. Charlene Senn as the 2024 recipient of the Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award.  An award reception was held in Assumption Hall’s Freed-Orman Centre. Dr. Senn was nominated by Dr. Patti Fritz who spoke to Dr. Senn's impressive, multidimensional contributions to equity, diversity, inclusivity, and safety.  The Award was established by WUFA’s Status of Women, Diversity and Equity Action Committee in memory of Dr. Mary…