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2022-2023 BUFA Executive Committee – Nominations BUFA encourages all members to consider running for election as a member of the 2022-2023 BUFA Executive. Nominations are now open. [...]

Brock’s Administration Falls Short on Protecting and Upholding Academic Freedom The Executive Committee of BUFA was dispirited to read Brock University’s formal statement released Friday, and the [...]

Free expression on campuses across Ontario will soon become regulated, controlled, and policed by the Ontario government. The BUFA Executive strongly opposes this provincial directive, which was [...]

There is currently a proposal before the CRTC which would allow Internet Service Providers (such as Rogers, Bell), to block websites of their choosing in order to address supposed issues of [...]

BUFA strongly encourages its members to run for Senate. Senate nominations are due March 12, 2018 at 4:30 pm. The nomination form is available at [...]

The Brock University Faculty Association calls for the immediate release of Professor Homa Hoodfar, who is a Concordia University professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She is [...]

In August, all BUFA members were required to submit an Annual Report to their Dean or Head Librarian. These senior administrators will base our yearly performance reviews on these Annual Reports. [...]

The Administration has forwarded the following policies to BUFA for review pursuant to Art. 4.06 – Member feedback provided by noon on April 24, 2015 will be considered in BUFA’s [...]

  1)   Wiley/Blackwell “Big Deal” Grievance: BUFA filed a grievance on the failure of the Administration to provide members with reasonable library resources as a result of the [...]

As universities become more controlling of their public images and more insistent on making professors “play nice,” they’re threatening the academic freedom that has traditionally [...]