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Rédacteur / Editor: Frans De
Bruyn, département d'English Department
Vol 00-05, 26 mai / 26 May 2000
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At the Annual General Meeting of the APUO this April, a new Executive was elected by the general membership. Many thanks to those members who put their names forward for election, and congratulations to those who have been elected (or re-elected). The membership of the executive for the upcoming year will be as follows:
Mario
Lamontagne (human kinetics) - President Michel
Morin (droit civil) - First Vice-President Penny
Gurney (education) - Second Vice-President Peter
Anderson (biochem/med) - Secretary-Treasurer Richard
Blute (math/stat) - Asst. Secretary-Treasurer Barry
Jessup (math/stat) - Member at Large Tony
Horava (library) - Member at Large
The APUO Constitution limits the number of years the immediate past-president can serve; hence, Marilyn Rennick cannot continue to serve on the Executive beyond 30 June 2000. Atef Fahim (mechanical engineering), the next available past president prior to Marilyn Rennick, was appointed to serve in her stead.
Professional
Expenses Reimbursement (PER) Under the current Collective Agreement (section 40.9) every APUO member is entitled to reimbursement for allowable professional expenses up to a set limit for each calendar year. This year the allowable limit will be $700. Last year the reimbursement was paid out to members in the spring, and members were asked to submit a form to the employer before year end stating that they had incurred allowable expenditures up to the amount allotted. Administering the reimbursement has resulted in a couple of small difficulties. Some members mislaid their report forms or forgot to submit them, and when reminders were sent out later in the year, confusion arose as to who had or had not already submitted their reports. Another issue is the timing of the PER payment. Following the situation at Simon Fraser (see Bulletin 99.10, 4 October 1999), APUO and the employer have agreed that future payments will be made at the end of the calendar year, following the submission of the form.
Pension
Reform Update In
recent weeks there has been a flurry of activity on the pension plan
reform front.
Various meetings have taken place but there is little of substance
that can be reported here. Meanwhile
a sub-committee of the Pension Plan Committee has met on one occasion with
members of the University Administrative Committee.
The PPC sub-committee is composed of a member from CEPS, a member
from APUO, and the PPC chair.
The members of the Admin. Committee in attendance were Carole
Workman, Jean-Michel Beillard, and Pierre-Yves Boucher. The Admin. Committee representatives have also met with each of the three main pension plan stakeholders separately (support staff, retirees, APUO). In the latter case, on 9 May the Admin. Committee of the University met with the Executive of APUO. Following this meeting, a second meeting scheduled between the PPC sub-committee and the above-mentioned members of the Admin. Committee was cancelled at the latter’s request so that the Admin. Committee representatives could prepare a response to concerns that had been raised by the stakeholders groups. On 15 May, the Pension Plan Committee received a presentation from the Plan actuary as a result of Admin. Committee discussions. The PPC and the Admin. Committee are thus considering potential amendments to the proposed reform.
Travel Rates as of 1
May 2000
APUO
Budget With
a membership that has declined over the last half decade, the APUO must
work with a budget that is smaller than it was in years past.
The Secretary-Treasurer of APUO reported at the Annual Meeting in
April that the finances of APUO are currently in good shape, though there
is continued need for vigilance to ensure that the financial position of
the organization remains sound.
A number of members have expressed their surprise to learn that a
large portion of the APUO annual budget is earmarked for fixed payments to
external organizations of which APUO is a member.
The purpose of this news item is to remind members that, indeed,
some 44% of the APUO budget consists of contributions to our national
organization, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT);
to our provincial organization, the Ontario Confederation of
University Faculty Associations (OCUFA); and to the CAUT strike fund.
These two umbrella organizations lobby on our behalf at the federal
and provincial levels and provide valuable support to member associations.
At the federal level, in particular, the lobbying efforts of CAUT
have contributed to the federal government’s increased funding in recent
budgets of research at the postsecondary level.
The strike fund provides strike pay to member associations:
in recent years a number of member universities have gone out on
strike, most recently the University of Moncton and the University College
of Cape Breton. The
APUO has been reviewing our contributions to these three funds on an
ongoing basis, as a way of keeping our expenditures at a level
commensurate with our ability to finance them.
The strike fund, in particular, is in very strong financial shape,
even after a number of recent faculty strikes by member associations.
The APUO is continuing to work with other members of the strike
fund to find ways of lowering the cost of contributions, especially in
view of the healthy financial state of the fund. On the subject of strikes, the APUO has shown its solidarity with striking members at Moncton and Cape Breton. Each of these two associations received a cash contribution of $1,000 from the APUO, and Executive members Marilyn Rennick and Peter Anderson travelled to the Maritimes during these strikes to show the APUO’s support and to walk the picket line with striking members.
APUO
Launches Policy Grievance The APUO has launched a policy grievance regarding the processing of promotion applications in one of the faculties of the University. The grievance concerns (1) the employer’s demand that members provide multiple copies of materials and documents for external review, (2) the employer’s failure to provide sufficient copies of these materials for external evaluators, and (3) a failure to meet the 1 April deadline for communicating the Joint Committee decision regarding promotion to the members in question. Further information regarding this grievance will be forthcoming as available.
Programme des Bourses aux Étudiants offert par l’APUO L’APUO
incite fortement les membres à soutenir le Programme des bourses aux étudiants Pourquoi
cotiser au Programme des bourses aux étudiants de l’APUO?
Cotiser au Programme prouvera aux étudiants de l’Université d’Ottawa
que les membres de l’APUO se préoccupent directement des frais de
l’enseignement et du bien-être des étudiants puisque c’est
l’Association elle-même qui administre tout le Programme des bourses
aux étudiants de l’APUO. Les frais de l’enseignement ont augmenté énormément
depuis quelques années, mais le nombre de bourses de l’APUO (50 remises
l’an dernier) et la somme (500 $) ne reflètent tout simplement
plus la demande et les besoins. Une hausse des dons des membres permettra
à l’APUO d’augmenter le nombre et la somme des bourses à venir. En
versant plutôt nos cotisations au Programme des bourses aux étudiants,
nous pouvons exercer des pressions auprès de l’employeur, afin de régler
la question du régime de pension sans heurter la cause fondamentale de la
Campagne de financement annuelle - les étudiants de l’Université. Plan
de cotisation actuel:
En 1998-1999, le soutien que les membres ont accordé au
Programme a permis à l’APUO de remettre environ 60 bourses de 500 $
chacune à des étudiants qui le méritaient, compte tenu des besoins
financiers et des résultats scolaires. Ce
printemps, à cause des réserves à la baisse, 50 bourses seulement
ont été remises. Au cours de l’Assemblée générale annuelle du 18 avril,
les membres de l’APUO ont voté en faveur d’une modification de la méthode
d’évaluation des cotisations. À compter du 1 juillet 2000,
au lieu d’évaluer la cotisation selon le rang du professeur, elle sera
calculée à 0,05 % de la rémunération de chacun. (La
modification des cotisations a des répercussions uniquement sur ceux qui
ont une retenue 014 activée sur leur bordereau de paie.) Voici quelques
exemples des répercussions de la modification proposée. Si
votre salaire
votre contribution sera:
50 000
25,00
2,08
1,04 Nous
tirerons des cotisations à la hausse des recettes annuelles de 33 000 $
environ. Veuillez
considérer l’augmentation de vos cotisations, remplir à cette fin la
formule qui apparaît à la fin de ce numéro du bulletin et l’envoyer
au bureau de l’APUO. Si vous ne versez pas de cotisation au programme
actuellement, et si vous voulez le faire, vous pouvez commencer à cotiser
en remplissant la section appropriée de la formule. N’oubliez pas que
toutes les cotisations sont déductibles d’impôt. Nous
vous remercions d’aider l’APUO à aider les étudiants de notre
Université. APUO
Urges Members to Support Student Awards Programme Why contribute to the APUO’s Student Awards Programme? Making a contribution demonstrates to the students of the University of Ottawa that APUO members are concerned about the cost of education and the well-being of students, and it does so in a very direct way, since the APUO Student Awards Programme is administered entirely by the APUO itself. The cost of education has skyrocketed in recent years, but the number of APUO awards (50 given last year) and the amount ($500) simply hasn’t kept pace with the need and the demand. An increase in donations by the membership will enable the APUO to augment the number and amount of future awards. By diverting our contributions to the Student Awards Programme, we can put pressure on the employer to settle the pension issue without harming the fundamental cause served by the Annual Fund Drive—the students of the University. Existing
Contribution Scheme: In
1998-99, member support of the programme enabled the APUO to give
approximately 60 awards of $500 each to worthy students, on the basis of
financial need and scholarship. This
spring, because of reduced reserves, the number of awards given was 50. At
the 18 April Annual General Meeting, APUO members voted for a change in
the method of assessing contributions. Effective 1 July 2000, instead of
being assessed on the basis of professorial rank, contributions will be
calculated at 0.05% of individual salaries. (The change in
contributions only affects those individuals who have an active 014
deduction on their pay slips.) The following are some examples of the
effect of the proposed adjustments. If
your annual
your contribution will be:
50,000
25.00
2.08
1.04 The
increased contributions will generate approximately $33,000 in yearly
revenue. Please
consider increasing your contributions by filling in the form which
appears at the end of this issue of the Bulletin and sending it
back to the APUO office. If you are currently not contributing to the
program, and wish to do so, you may start your contributions by filling in
the appropriate space on the form. It should be kept in mind that all
contributions are tax deductible. Thank you for helping the APUO to help students of our University.
Prix
d’Excellence en Enseignement et en Recherche L’APUO,
l’Université d’Ottawa, et l’Association des anciens parrainent les
Prix annuels d’excellence en enseignement et en recherche pour les
professeurs, même si ce fait n’est malheureusement pas reflété dans
les communiqués publicitaires diffusés par le Service du marketing et
des communications de l’Université. Chacun de ces prix comprend une
bourse de 3 000 $ dont le tiers, ou 1 000 $, est versé
par l’APUO. L’APUO est très fière de parrainer ces prix en
reconnaissance des réalisations remarquables en enseignement et en
recherche à l’Université d’Ottawa.
Prix
d’excellence en recherche: Nos plus sincères félicitations
à la professeure Heather Davis de l’École des sciences de
la réadaptation de la Faculté des sciences de la santé qui a reçu le
Prix d’excellence en recherche pour l’an 2000. La professeure Davis
a été honorée lors d’une cérémonie publique le 12 avril cette
année. La présentation du prix a été précédée d’une conférence
publique de la professeure Davis sur le thème suivant :
l’utilisation de l’ADN pour moduler le système immunitaire : répercussions
éventuelles sur les vaccins, les thérapies pour le traitement du cancer
et les allergies. Environ 80 membres de la collectivité
universitaire et particuliers du grand public étaient présents. La conférence
de la professeure Davis portait sur un sujet complexe admirablement
calibré pour un auditoire non spécialisé. L’APUO félicite la
professeure Davis pour ses réalisations remarquables. Prix d’excellence en enseignement: Le lauréat du Prix d’excellence en enseignement pour l’année universitaire 1999-2000 vient juste d’être annoncé. Nous félicitons cette année le professeur Denis Caro de la Faculté d’administration. Une cérémonie publique en l’honneur du professeur Caro aura lieu, comme c’est la coutume, pendant le trimestre d’automne.
Salutations
aux Bénévoles des Comités de l’APUO De
nombreux membres de l’APUO soutiennent discrètement l’Association en
siégeant à ses comités et en la représentant aux divers comités de
l’Université. L’APUO
apprécie énormément la contribution de ces membres et les remercie tous
beaucoup. Nous sommes simultanément toujours heureux de recevoir de
nouveaux bénévoles. La
liste suivante révèle de toute évidence que l’APUO a de nombreux
engagements à divers comités. Il s’agit d’un volet indispensable de
la tâche de l’Association qui représente les intérêts de ses membres.
La participation concrète aux comités est essentielle pour être à jour
et considérer un large éventail de questions qui intéressent tous les
employés, par exemple la santé, la sécurité, l’équité en matière
d’emploi, ou même les services d’alimentation. Si vous voulez
contribuer à ce travail important, veuillez téléphoner au bureau de
l’APUO en composant le 4364. Voici
la liste des comités qui ont été actifs au cours de l’année scolaire
écoulée : Comités
APUO / APUO Committees:
Représentants
à l’ACPPU / CAUT Representatives:
Représentants à l’UAPUO / OCUFA Representatives:
Délégués
à divers comités de l’Université
Délégués
aux comités des Affaires étudiantes
OCUFA
Awards Honour Outstanding University Teaching "Excellence in university teaching and academic librarianship will be honoured at a special ceremony this June," said Dr. Deborah Flynn, President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) today, as she announced the winners of the annual OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Awards. Among the nine recipients of this year’s teaching awards across Ontario is Professor Michael Munro of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. In singling out the teaching award winners, Dr. Flynn stated, "The recipients of the teaching awards go that ‘extra mile’ to ensure that their students receive the very best in course development, instruction, and research.” The APUO wishes to congratulate Professor Munro for the recognition he has earned as an outstanding teacher.
University
of Ottawa Fares Poorly in Provincial Capital Funding In February of this year, the Government of Ontario announced a special “SuperBuild” capital fund to help Ontario colleges and universities expand their facilities in anticipation of significant enrollment increases, beginning with the double cohort of incoming high school graduates in 2003, caused by the phase-out of OAC. In the round of capital spending announcements that followed, the University of Ottawa did not do at all well in comparison with other universities around the province. The University received $2.57M for expansion of Health Sciences and $4.5 for the School of Information Technology and Engineering. This comes to a total of $7M, which is very disappointing indeed when one compares figures for other universities. Carleton, for example, will be receiving $40M; Guelph, $45M; McMaster, $22.5M; Queen’s, $50M; Ryerson, $35M; Waterloo, $31M; Western, $40.5M. The President of APUO, Mario Lamontagne, has met with the Rector of the University, Marcel Hamelin, to express the concern and disquiet of the APUO concerning this disappointing result.
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