COVID-19 Updates
Please visit this page for the most recent updates on COVID-19 from the Faculty Association as they relate to your working conditions and your rights and benefits under the Collective Agreement.
If you have any questions about what the Faculty Association has been doing, or should be doing regarding changes happening at UVic related to COVID-19, please contact:
Lynne Marks at [email protected]
Ben Johnson at [email protected]
Update – September 7, 2022
- COVID Updates
Update – March 29, 2022
- Updates on Mask Mandate
Update – March 18, 2022
- Changes to Mask Mandate
Update – February 3, 2022
- CES & Salary Deadlines
- Guidelines for temporarily moving classes online
- Sick leave
- Feedback to the administration
Update – January 21, 2022
- Return to in-person Teaching Issues
- Guidelines for Absences
- Sick Leave
- Not required to teach in two modalities
- CES for this term
- Concluding Comments
Update – January 17, 2022
- One third issue / Flexibility for the rest of term
- Permission of Chairs/Directors
- Seeking Medical or Family Status Accommodations
- Additional TA supports
- Rapid Testing
- Concluding Comments
Update – January 4, 2022
- Final collective bargaining survey
- COVID and delay in school opening
Update – December 23, 2021
- Courses go online until January 24
- Accommodation
- Support for academic Afghan refugees
- Gratitude
Update – December 23, 2021
- FA Advocating for online teaching in January
- Accommodation
Update – December 14, 2021
- Update on UVic COVID exposure
- Online Exams
- January Classes
- Support Available
- Research on Campus
Update – December 10, 2021
- Update on UVic COVID exposure
- Link to petition calling on improved exposure communications
Update – December 9, 2021
- COVID Exposure to UVic Community
- Letters of Understanding
- Extension to “stopping the clock” language
- Impacts of COVID on Salary Evaluations
Update – October 5, 2021
- Campus Vaccination Numbers
- Ongoing work with CUFA BC
Update – September 29, 2021
- Rapid Testing
- Thrive App
- Undeclared / Audits on Proof of Vaccination
- Masks
- COVID Cases on Campus
Update – September 17, 2021
- Masks
- COVID Cases
- Rapid Testing
- Some Positive News
- Encouraging Students to Vote
Update – September 8, 2021
- Update on Masking policies and procedures
- Students ill with COVID
Update – September 3, 2021
- New PHO Orders for Fall 2021
- Masking
- Microphones in classes
- Meetings and office hours
- Vaccination and rapid testing
Update – August 27, 2021
- Welcome News! Announcement of Fall 2021 Rapid Testing Program
Update – August 25, 2021
- New mask & vaccine guidelines announced
- Stage 3 and Universities
- Pivot Online?
- Ventilation
Update – August 10, 2021
- Fall 2021 Health & Safety Petition
- Click here to sign the petition
Update – August 07, 2021
- Results from Fall 2021 Health & Safety Survey
- Vaccine Mandates
- Building Ventilation
Update– July 26, 2021
- Campus Reopening
- Fall Plans
- Medical Accommodation
Update – June 02, 2021
- Ventilation
- Masks
- Mandatory Vaccinations
- Online Teaching
- Requesting Accommodation
- Refusing Unsafe Work
- Further Clarifications on Masks, Accommodations, and Office Hours
Update – April 27, 2021
- Fall Teaching
- Seeking Accommodations
- Health & Safety
Update – March 11, 2021
- Face-to-face teaching in Fall 2021
- Fall Teaching Survey
Update – March 5, 2021
- Tax forms for working from home
Update – February 22, 2021
- Student Accommodations
Update – February 10, 2021
- New LOU on Salary Evaluations
- CES
Update – January 25, 2021
- Summer Teaching
- Salary Evaluations
Update – January 18, 2021
- Summer Teaching
Update – December 15, 2020
- CES
- Workload Supports
- Advice for January
- More to come
Update – October 13, 2020
- CES Policy Extension
- Study Leave Deferral
- Workload Supports
- Accommodation on the Basis of Disability and Family Status
Update – September 14, 2020
- Furniture for Working from Home
- Op-ed on Post-secondary Funding
- Sexualized Violence Policy Survey
- Caregiving Issues
- Workshop for Early in Career Faculty
- Ongoing Issues
Update – August 17, 2020
- Welcoming our New President
- Fall Teaching Issues
- Recording and Downloading Lectures
- LMS issues
- Health and Safety Issues
Update – August 17, 2020
- Recording and Downloading Lectures
- Student Consent for Recording Lectures and Class Discussions
- Student Downloading and Posting of Course Materials
Update – August 7, 2020
- TA Support and Online Teaching
- Funding for Purchase of Equipment to Enable Working from Home
- Intellectual Property and On-Line Teaching
- Hiring Freeze Lifted
- Other Questions
Update – July 2, 2020
- Brightspace/Online teaching
- Library Recall Services
- Anti-Racism Initiatives
Update – June 15, 2020
- Survey Results and Workload Toolkit
- Supports for Online Teaching: Further Details
Update – June 9, 2020
- New Learning Management System
Update – May 22, 2020
- Fall Term Teaching
- Options and Accommodations in Starting to Open Up the University
- Supports for Online Teaching
Update – April 17, 2020
- Clarifications on the LOU
- Administrative Leave
- Other COVID-19 Related Issues
Update – April 10, 2020
- Letter of Understanding
- RPT Deferrals for Pre-tenure and Pre-continuing Appointment Faculty
- CES
- Deadlines for Career Progress Reviews and for Reappointment, Promotion etc.
- Deferring Current and Future Study Leaves
- Furniture, Computers and Working Remotely
- Supporting our Students
Update – April 4, 2020
- Working from Home
- Office Access
- Child/Eldercare Accommodations
- Resources for Summer Teaching
- Cancelled Field Schools
Update – March 27, 2020
- Summer Online Teaching
- Research Issues
- Association Leverage
- Concerns about other Members of the Campus Community
- FA Facebook Group
Update – March 21, 2020
- FA Summer Session Course Delivery Survey
- Working from Home
- Survey on Summer Courses
- Scheduling Online Tests, Assignments and Exams on CourseSpaces
- Building Community: Facebook Group
Update – March 17, 2020
- Revised Policies
- Planning for Moving Courses Away from Face-to-face Delivery
- Attending Meetings
- Salary Evaluation
- CES
Update – March 13, 2020
- Completing the Teaching Term
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