Dear UTFA Colleague,

UTFA's Annual General Meeting (AGM) is on Thursday, April 23, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. A post-AGM Social is scheduled from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the Faculty Club patio. We hope to see you there. We are trending toward another strong year for attendance. We encourage those who have not yet registered to do so here, using your U of T email address.

UTFA’s AGM Meeting FAQ addresses questions about governance processes, participation, and technology. Please note that if attending in person, a device is required in order to vote.

Agenda

1. Acknowledgment of Traditional Land (Urvashi Chakravarty)

2. Review of the Agenda and Housekeeping Items (Susan Wagner)

3. Minutes of 2024 – 2025 AGM (Susan Wagner)

4. Welcome and President’s Remarks (Terezia Zorić)

5. Feature Panel:  Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Changing Nature of our Work as Faculty and Librarians at the University of Toronto (Moderator: Max Mishler, with Professor L.K. Bertram (Department of History), Professor Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling (Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry), Mr. Graeme Slaght (Scholarly Communications and Copyright Outreach Librarian), Professor Erik Thomson (President, University of Manitoba Faculty Association)

6. Issues arising from the increase in PhD Funding (Girish Daswani and Arjumand Siddiqi)

7. Highlights from the Bargaining Table (Jun Nogami and Terezia Zorić)

8. Reports of the 2025-2026 UTFA Officers and Chairs of Committees 

The reports are published in the AGM Newsletter and will not be read at the meeting. However, the President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and Committee Chairs will be available to answer questions.

9. Presentation of the Student Awards (Harriet Sonne de Torrens)

10. Presentation of the UTFA Academic Citizenship Award (Thom Dancer)

11. Other business and questions from the floor

12. Acknowledgements (Terezia Zorić)

13. Adjournment

The Association’s 2024-2025 Audited Financial Statements can be found here. 

Please don’t forget to register. As always, we encourage you to write to us with any questions you may have ahead of time, as part of the registration process or by emailing us at faculty@utfa.org.  

We look forward to seeing you on April 23rd!

Sincerely,

Terezia Zorić
UTFA President

Jun Nogami
UTFA President-elect

On behalf of the UTFA Executive