Mission Statement
The Federation of New Brunswick Faculty Associations is the voice of university faculty and academic librarians across the province. We seek to advance our members’ professional interests and to improve the quality of our education system.
In attempting to achieve the foregoing goals, the Federation maintains close contact, and exchanges relevant information, with the appropriate Departments of the provincial and federal governments and with the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission. (MPHEC)
The primary focus of the Federation is on lobbying government to maintain public funding for the universities in this province at levels adequate to allow them to remain accessible to all who wish to attend them, as well as competitive both with those of the other provinces and internationally. (Consequently, a large part of the Federation’s efforts is directed towards the recovery and analysis of demographic and other statistical information from reliable sources). We like to think that it is not a coincidence that according to the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) only British Columbia and New Brunswick have maintained or increased their per-capita expenditures on post-secondary education over the last decade, in marked contrast to the experience of Alberta or Ontario.
However, the Federation also addresses with government other issues which generally concern university faculty. In April 1991 the FNBFA was successful, for example, in persuading the provincial government to repeal the provisions affecting university faculty, before they took effect, of the Expenditure Management Act enacted earlier that year. On the pretext that the universities receive most of their funding from the province, this Act had originally included university faculty in the one-year “pay-freeze” – and in the prohibition from even engaging in contract negotiations during that period – which it imposed on provincial public employees.
Similarly, the Federation is presently examining pension legislation which adversely affects those associations which hold “money purchase” pension plans.
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