Teaching Faculty Negotiations 2017

“Planning a course that gets students fully into the material is a lot of work. With four courses it’s not always possible to do justice to what we want our students to leave here knowing. And that is really frustrating.” – Andrea Braithwaite (Faculty of Social Science & Humanities)

“I love my job and always work with the idea that students come first. To this end, I make time to be available to them during the day which sometimes means my other work gets done on my own time.” – Sue O’Dwyer (Faculty of Health Sciences)

“Because of my workload I do not have a lot of hours for students to drop by and get extra help or go over assessments that may have caused them difficulty. This year I have decided to do three 12-hour days so that I can free up office hours so students can get help.” – Ruth Simpson (Faculty of Health Sciences)

“Teaching to me, means being a skilled facilitator empowering a community of learners. To that end, exceptional teaching demands innovation & ingenuity; aspects that are impeded with the ever increasing workloads. This ultimately, & unfortunately, hurts the students most.” – Asifa Aamir (Faculty of Business and Information Technology)

“I am a retired Professor from the University of Western Ontario. I came to UOIT to share my passion for teaching and love every minute of it. Monday morning comes around, I’m happy to go to work. I really enjoy teaching my students.” – Michael Bennett (Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science)