On behalf of Provost Bacon, please see the attached announcement regarding the Vice-Provost and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies for broad distribution within your unit.   

 

Vice-Provost Announcement regarding the Interim Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning 

 

On behalf of Jill Scott, Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning), please see the attached announcement regarding the Interim Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning.

 

As the Fall Academic Term draws closer, we take this opportunity to reiterate the importance of compliance with various timelines detailed in the Collective Agreement between Queen's and PSAC (Local 901, Unit 1) with respect to Graduate Students employed as Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Teaching Fellows (TFs) ("Collective Agreement").  The timelines relate to the critical administrative responsibilities of completing E-Contracts, letters of appointment for Teaching Fellows, Teaching Assistant Forms ("TAFs"), Teaching Fellow Forms ("TFFs"), and meeting payroll deadlines. These attachments reference  the posting of TA and TF opportunities, completion of the Teaching Assistant Form (TAF) and the Teaching Fellow Form (TFF), completion of the E-Contract, and the payroll deadline of the 15th of the first month of the applicable Academic Term.  As noted, the days referenced refer to the "very last day" or the "no later than" deadline.

 

Also, in accordance with Article 16.07(f) of the Collective Agreement, an Employment Supervisor is required to meet (or must otherwise communicate) with their TA no later than the second week of the Academic Term to review Section B of the TAF.  By the end of the second week of the Academic Term, the completed TAF shall be signed and a copy provided to the TA.

 

In accordance with Article 16.10(g), an Employment Supervisor must meet (or otherwise communicate) with their TF no later than the week prior to the Academic Term to discuss and sign the TFF.  The TF is to be provided with a copy of the signed TFF.

 

Thank you for your attention to these important matters.  Kindly stay tuned for updates from Faculty Relations regarding collective bargaining.  The University and PSAC are currently engaged in negotiating a renewal of this Collective Agreement.

 

 

The Faculty of Arts and Science is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Caroline Teske as the newest staff member of the Student Services team.  Caroline is the Academic Accommodation Counsellor, and joins our team of academic counsellors who provide academic advising for undergraduate students on all Faculty programs, regulations and policies.  

 

Caroline's particular focus is to implement and administer the policies and procedures related to student requests for academic accommodation and/or academic consideration within the Faculty of Arts and Science.  This new position was created in response to the recently-approved Senate Policy on Academic Consideration for Students in Extenuating Circumstances, recognizing the need to provide a central resource for Arts and Science students facing difficult or challenging personal circumstances that are impacting their ability to meet academic requirements.  In this role, Caroline will liaise with students, instructors, and various units on campus, including Student Wellness Services, to facilitate the implementation of academic accommodations and/or academic considerations for students in these situations.

 

Caroline is especially well-suited for this role because of her background in social work and coordination of programs aimed at preventing bullying and peer victimization.  She has worked at Queen's for 9 years, holding a variety of administrative and research positions in the Department of Psychology, the Faculty of Arts and Science, the School of Nursing and most recently at Queen's Student Accessibility Services.  Caroline holds a BA (Honours) in Psychology from Queen's and a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto.

 

Over the summer Caroline has been working closely with the Associate Deans (Studies) and the Executive Director, Student Wellness Services, to develop a Protocol for Short-Term Academic Consideration that will be implemented during the upcoming Fall Term.  This protocol will guide students, instructors, Undergraduate Chairs and academic counsellors in situations where extenuating circumstances are interfering with a student's ability to complete academic requirements related to a course(s) for a short period of time, not to exceed three months.  A webpage is also being developed that will provide an online portal for students to submit requests for academic consideration and to securely upload supporting documentation.  When the protocol, webpage and portal are ready to be launched, the details will be widely distributed and presented, first to Undergraduate Chairs and then to all faculty members.

 

For further information or to welcome Caroline to the Faculty, please contact her at  [email protected].

 

The Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) is currently exploring the possibility to submit an Expression of Interest for a project financed by the Asian Development Bank, for which we are looking for an expert in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management. We are aware of the great work that Queen's University does in Environment, and we thought that this opportunity might be interesting for one of your experts.

 

The project is expected to take place from January 2018 to October 2020 with intermittent assignments and field trips to Fiji, Lao and Mongolia. At the Call for EoI, they estimated this expert's level of effort at 6 months in total.  

2017-18 Curriculum Cycle Reminder   

T he online Curriculum Submission Portal is now open. Early bird curriculum submissions welcome! Curriculum Submissions are due on or before October 16th, 2017.

 

All submissions must be delivered via the Online Curriculum Tracking System (OCTS) and are processed on a first-come first-serve basis.

Please review the   Curriculum Submission Handbook.