Welcome to the newly designed website of the Lakehead University Faculty Association. LUFA represents over 400 faculty workers at Lakehead University at its campuses in Thunder Bay, and Orillia, Ontario.
LUFA values the diversity that all members of the university community bring to the learning and research environment. It also encourages the exchange of ideas and expression of a variety of perspectives; however, respect for others, human dignity, and the freedom of others is essential when these views are expressed.
LUFA promotes the professional interests of its members, protects academic freedom and tenure, negotiates and monitors employment relations between the academic staff and librarians and the Board of Governors of Lakehead University, and endeavours to obtain and preserve adequate conditions of salary, financial security and employment.
Lakehead University Faculty Association represents faculty and librarians at Lakehead University campuses in Thunder Bay and Orillia. This video presents images and memories of Lakehead’s first (and to date) only strike in 1988 and the 2009 protest against a temporary closure of the university to cover a budget deficit.
Date Approved by LUFA Executive: 13 November 2020 Collegial Governance: What You Need to Know For centuries, universities have been run by an alliance of stakeholders comprised of faculty, staff, [...]
Date Approved by LUFA Executive: 13 November, 2020 Contract Lecturer issues – What you need to know In 2018, researchers from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and CUPE collected data [...]
Dear Members of the Lakehead University Faculty Association: The Association and the Board of Governors met on Wednesday November 11, 2020 for a second day of mediated talks. You will recall that [...]
The report of OCUFA the Working Group on Student Questionnaires on Courses and Teaching (SQCT) has now been released. Prompted by increasing reports of the misuse of results and the harassment of [...]
The OCUFA Service Award was established six years ago to honour individuals who have done, or continue to do, exceptional work on behalf of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty [...]
CAUT is soliciting nominations for the Bernice Schrank Award. The Award was established in 2013 to recognize outstanding contributions to the enforcement of academic staff workplace rights [...]
The 2016 Ontario Budget made headlines for its changes to student financial aid in Ontario. By repackaging and re-focusing existing financial aid programs, the Government of Ontario has made a [...]
