Chair Resources

MRFA Presentations:

• FT Hiring and Re-appointment
  • HR Toolkit for recruitment and selection
    • Grid Placement – Guidance for Assessing Experience (January 2024)
    • Faculty Hiring Recommendation to Provost (January 2024)
  • Full-Time Faculty Hiring Training Session for Chairs (Slides from session held on 2024-01-12)
    • FAQs compiled from the training session
• Contract Hiring and Re-appointment:
  • Winter 2026 Contract Faculty Appointment and Workload Allocation Workshop for Chairs 
  • Contract Faculty Hiring Process Checklist
  • Winter 2026 – New Contract Faculty Orientation Slides – MRFA
  • Other Resources Relating to Contract Faculty:
    • Improving Working Conditions for Contract Academic Staff – Recommendations for Departmental Chairs
• Tenure, Permanency, and Promotion:
  • Toolkit for Chairs to host a tenure and annual report workshop for tenure track faculty
  • Tenure, Permanency, and Promotion Resources
  • Fall 2025 Tenure and Promotion Committee Workshop (workshop for all Committee Members)
• Annual Reports
  • Fall 2025 Annual Reports Workshop
• FT Faculty Workload:
  • Slides from the Workload Management Session (Winter 2024)
  • Workload Appeal Presentation (2019)
• Grievances:
  • Grievances Process
  • Grievance Guidebook 
  • Grievance Information Session PowerPoint

Links to further information

• 2024 – 2028 Collective Agreement Update
• 2024-2028 Collective Agreement Implementation Slide Deck
• Member Support
• Role of MRFA
  • Accommodations
  • Disciplinary Process
  • Grievance Process
  • Health and Safety
  • Personal Harassment
• Academic Freedom
• Compassionate Fund
• Employee Support
• General Inquiries

Faculty Funding Opportunities

• Service Honorarium (Contract Faculty)
• Student Scholarships
• Taking Courses at MRU
• Tuition Refunds
• PD Allocations
• FDC Funding

MRU Community Resources

• MRU & Community Resource List

Chair Advisories during Covid Pandemic:

• Chairs Advisory Introduction
• Covid 19 MoUs
• PD Funds during the Pandemic
• Workload during the Pandemic
• Return to Campus Fall 2021
  • Chair/manager toolkit 
  • Instructor toolkit
  • Information on managing faculty and student absences

Other Faculty Resources are available here.

If there is something you are looking for that isn’t here, please email office@mrfa.net.