CUFA BC represents more than 5,500 faculty members, including professors, academic librarians, lecturers, instructors, and sessionals at five research and doctoral universities in British Columbia: University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, University of Northern British Columbia, and Royal Roads University. Our mandate is to act as the unified voice of our members on a variety of issues affecting post-secondary education in BC. We promote the value of high-quality post-secondary education; academic freedom; university governance; academic labour relations; and research and teaching to the provincial government and wider public. We produce timely research on a variety of subjects, including university governance, government policies, trends in funding and developments at research universities, and policy analyses.

We respectfully acknowledge our office is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ı́lwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and Stó:lō Nations.

 

 

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Faculty Call for Renewed Investment Needed for BC’s Post-Secondary Future

(For Immediate Release – Port Moody, BC, 22 January 2024) – The Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia…

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2025 CUFA BC DISTINGUISHED ACADEMICS AWARDS

(For Immediate Release – Port Moody, BC, October 31, 2024) – The Confederation of University Faculty Associations of BC (CUFA…

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Faculty Congratulate BC NDP, Call for Continued Sector Improvements

(For Immediate Release – Port Moody, BC, October 29, 2024) – With the re-election of David Eby and the BC…

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