We have a collective agreement that other faculty associations can look to, in important ways, as a model," says Wainwright.
The Senate consists of 17 ex officio positions granted to the principal and vice-chancellor, the vice-principals of the university, the senior dean of each faculty, dean of student affairs, the deputy provost, and the presidents of the undergraduate, graduate and faculty associations.
Like any former faculty member, Mr Galloway has the right to challenge the university's decision and the faculty association has filed a grievance and arranged for senior legal counsel".
In the words of the president of one university faculty association, "You're going to be awarding degrees that are worthless to people".
Video of the incident was circulated widely on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter on Saturday, and the university's faculty association called on Katehi to resign, saying in a letter there had been a "gross failure of leadership".
The campus's faculty association, which is not represented by a union, objected via e-mail messages to the firing of four deans who were told to leave the same day they told they no longer had jobs, according to Ms. Feroe, the interim college president.
Frederick Lepore, head of the faculty association at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick -- one of the eight schools that make up UMDNJ -- said Dr. Petillo had made a concerted effort to work with the university's disparate schools, a longtime organizational problem.
However, while the report on which the decision to sack Galloway was based has not been made public, the UBC faculty association issued a statement "to clarify that all but one of the allegations, including the most serious allegation … were not substantiated".
Queen's recently negotiated a Spousal Partner arrangement with its faculty association that offers an attractive package to academic couples.
It is definitely in your best interest to have as detailed a working contract as possible with the university and to seek advice from your faculty association or legal counsel.
The Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA), representing almost 780 full-time professors, librarians, and other academic staff, has been engaged in protracted contract negotiations with the administration since June 2001, when their previous collective agreement expired.
