Erin George, the chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario is scheduled as the Order of the Day and will do a presentation at the Saturday morning session. Hire Education, The Faculty Shortage Crisis in Ontario Universities - Challenges and Options features Peter Gzowski, author, broadcast journalist and Chancellor of Trent, as a moderator at the conference.
Panellists come from academia, government, and the media.
Local association offices will receive conference flyers and registration forms early next month. The York strike enters its fifth week with no resolution in sight. Indexing of graduate tuition support, contracting of part-time faculty, and job security are some of the issues in this strike. In late October the President met with Marie Bountorgianni, the Liberal critic for colleges and universities. Talk also centred on higher education participation rates, and projected enrolment increases in the province s universities.