Membership — UOIT Faculty Association president Raymond Cox took his seat at CAUT Council last month following a unanimous ‘yes’ vote on the resolution to admit his association to the national organization.
Full-time faculty represented by the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Faculty Association are the latest academics to join CAUT after a unanimous acceptance vote by CAUT Council in November.
UOITFA, which is voluntarily recognized by the university administration as the exclusive bargaining agent for full-time core tenured and tenure-track faculty, voted in May to become part of CAUT. UOITFA was formed July 31, 2007. There are 57 academics in the bargaining unit, with another 39 eligible for membership.
“We are delighted to welcome the UOIT faculty association as the 69th local member of CAUT,” said CAUT president Penni Stewart. “It’s a relatively new association, but its objectives and constitutional provisions are consistent with those of other organizational members of CAUT.”
UOIT, Ontario’s first laptop-based university, opened in 2003 and has a student population of 5,500. It was recently named one of the top 50 research universities in the country by Research Infosource Inc., a Canadian provider of research intelligence for business and higher education.
Earlier this year, the Alberta Colleges and Institutes Faculties Association and the sessional faculty union at the University of Toronto (CUPE 3902 Unit 3) joined CAUT.