Call for Nominees: The CAFA Awards (Deadline is April 30, 2024)
CAFA Awards 2024 - Nominations are Open
CAFA is a federation of Academic Staff Associations in Alberta. The four contributing members are: Grant MacEwan University Faculty Association, Athabasca University Faculty Association, Mount Royal Faculty Association, and the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association. The objectives of the Confederation are to promote the quality of education in the province and to promote the well-being of Alberta universities and their academic staff.
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Link to CAFA Awards Nomination Information
CAFA is expanding the awards this year to showcase talent from all of Alberta’s public universities.
The Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA) is inviting nominations for the Eighteenth Annual CAFA Distinguished Academic Awards. The 2023 Awards received considerable public attention, and we are hoping to build on this success.
The CAFA Awards are open to academic staff at all Public Universities. Academic staff at the University of Alberta and The University of Calgary are encouraged to apply. The goal of the Awards is to acknowledge and highlight academic excellence in our provincial universities.
There are four awards:
CAFA Distinguished Academic Award
Recognizing an academic staff member, or group of staff members, who through their research and/or other scholarly, creative, or professional activities have made an outstanding contribution to the wider community beyond the university.
CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Award
Recognizing an academic staff member at an early stage of their career, who through their research and/or other scholarly, creative, or professional activity has made an outstanding contribution to the wider community beyond the university.
CAFA Distinguished Teaching Award
The purpose of the Award is to recognize an academic staff member who excels in teaching and goes above and beyond in their role as a teacher and made an outstanding contribution to the wider community beyond the university.
CAFA Distinguished Teaching Award for Precarious Faculty
The purpose of the Award is to recognize a precarious academic staff member who excels in teaching. (Note: the focus of this award is teaching-within-employment: while awards often privilege those who go “above and beyond” their employment requirements, we believe that such a focus can contribute to the exploitation of precarious employees. In this case, we are particularly interested therefore in innovative classroom techniques, stories of pedagogical success, and so on, within the employment situation).
Each Award recipient will receive a cheque for $2,000 and an original piece of artwork.
Nominations for the CAFA Awards must be received by April 30, 2024. For more information, visit cafa-ab.ca/cafa-awards/