Board of Governors Unanimously Approves Collective Agreement with CUASA
June 21, 2018
To all Members of the Carleton Community,
Carleton University’s Board of Governors have unanimously approved a new, four-year collective agreement with the Carleton University Academic Staff Association.
The agreement provides a two per cent scale increase in each year of the agreement, retroactively to May 1, 2017.
Some highlights from the agreement include:
- An adjustment to base salaries for professors, librarians and instructors;
- Improvements to benefits plans effective September 1, 2018;
- A new Letter of Understanding on pensions including facilitated discussions on CUASA’s participation in the Joint Pension Review Committee;
- A new Letter of Understanding to hire an independent expert investigator to report on gender pay issues;
- A pilot study for a new student questionnaire to evaluate teaching and a committee to review the use of teaching dossiers in the evaluation of teaching.
Jerry Tomberlin
Interim Provost and Vice-President (Academic)