COMMITTEES
BENEFITS COMMITTEE
Composition: Five members of the Association: two members of the bargaining unit from Thunder Bay; one member of the bargaining unit from Orillia; one emeritus member; and the Chief Negotiator (ex-officio).
Lynn Martin
Patrick Cain
Wa Gao
Florin Pendea
Glenna Knutson
Health Sciences, ex-officio
Political Science
Engineering
Geography/Sustainability Sciences (Orillia)
Emeritus
COMMUNICATIONS
Composition: Four members of the Association: three members of the bargaining unit from Thunder Bay; one member of the bargaining unit from Orillia.
Doug Ivison
Anna Kone Pefoyo
Tony Puddephatt
Syed Serajul Islam
English
Health Sciences
Sociology
Political Science (Orillia)
CONTRACT LECTURERS/CONTINUING CONTRACT LECTURERS COMMITTEE
Composition: Six Contract Lecturers/Continuing Contract Lecturers who are members of the bargaining unit, five from the Thunder Bay campus; one from the Orillia campus. In addition, there will be an honorary position that exists in the memory of Lisa Richardson and that remains open in perpetuity.
Lynne Thibeault
Taina Maki Chahal
Clara Sachetti Dufresne
Fay Williams
Vacant
Vacant
Nursing
English and Anthropology
Philosophy and Anthropology
Interdisciplinary Studies (Orillia)
EMERITUS MEMBERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Composition: Six emeritus members of the Association.
Glenna Knutson
Jim Stafford
Brian Phillips
Nancy Luckai
Karen Maddox
Doug West
EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND STATUS OF WOMEN COMMITTEE
Composition: Five members of the Association including the LUFA Status of Women representative (ex officio) and one member of the bargaining unit from Orillia. Efforts shall be made to ensure representation from various equity-seeking groups.
Information about Equity, Diversity and Status of Women Committee
Wendy St. Laurent-Coutts
Pallavi Das
Libo Xu
Juan Pernia
Muditha Heenkenda
Thiago Eustaquio Alves de Oliveira
(ex-officio)
History (Orillia)
Economics
Civil Engineering
Geography and the Environment
Computer Sciences
LIBRARIANS
Composition: Four professional librarian members of the Association.
Courtney Dicke
Gisella Scalese
Sara Janes
Debra Gold
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Composition: Five members of the Association: three members of the bargaining unit from Thunder Bay; one member of the bargaining unit from Orillia; the Past-President (ex-officio).
Nandakumar Kanavillil
Jason Blahuta
Xin Yang Lu
Benjamin Maiangwa
Sustainability Sciences (Orillia)
Philosophy
Mathematical Sciences
Political Science
ORILLIA MEMBERS COMMITTEE
Composition: Six Orillia members who are members of the Association under Article 4.3.
Jennifer Jarman
Rosario Turvey
Syed Serajul Islam
Nandakumar Kanavillil
Yuanyuan Wu
Alice den Otter
Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies
Sustainability Sciences
Political Science and Interdisciplinary Studies
Sustainability Sciences
Business Administration
Interdisciplinary Studies
PENSION COMMITTEE
Composition: Seven members of the Association: three members of the bargaining unit from Thunder Bay; one member of the bargaining unit from Orillia; one emeritus member; the two LUFA members on the Pension Board (ex-officio).
Robert Mawhinney
Naqi Sayed
Jim Stafford
Michael Stevenson
Camillo Lento
Doug Ivison
Hui Zhang
Chemistry, ex-officio
Business Administration, ex-officio
Emeritus
History and Interdisciplinary (Orillia)
Business Administration
English
Business Administration
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
Composition: Four members of the Association: three members of the bargaining unit from Thunder Bay; one member of the bargaining unit from Orillia.
Nandakumar Kanavillil
Hui Zhang
Patrick Cain
Kamil Zaniewski
Interdisciplinary Studies (Orillia)
Business Administration
Political Science
Geography and the Environment
RESEARCH COMMITTEE
Composition: A maximum of eight (8) members of the Association: (at least) three (3) members of the bargaining unit from Thunder Bay; (at least) one member of the bargaining unit from Orillia; one emeritus member. Where possible, there shall be three (3) active researcher(s) who is (are) SSHRC eligible, three (3) who is (are) NSERC eligible, one who is CIHR eligible (regardless of the actual source of funding in each case) and one who is involved with international fieldwork. An “active researcher” is defined as a Principal Investigator or a Co-Investigator in an active research project, or someone who has held such a position in a research project within the two years prior to their election to the committee.
SSHRC
SSHRC
SSHRC
CIHR
NSERC
NSERC
NSERC
EMERITUS
Zikhun Zhang
Jennifer Jarman
Lida Fan
Lindsay Galway
Wensheng Qin
Muditha Heenkenda
Nandakumar Kanvillil
Ernie Epp
Business Administration
Sociology/Interdisciplinary Studies (Orillia)
Social Work
Health Sciences
Biology
Geography and the Environment
Sustainability Sciences (Orillia)