Key Internal Stakeholders: Faculty

• Author: Cheryl Foy
• Pages: 46-58

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Key Internal Stakeholders: Faculty

A. BACKGROUND INFORMATION

ere are approximately , faculty at Canada’s universities. Faculty

are essential to universities because they engage in the primary work of

the universities — research and teaching. Matters of concern for the board

relating to faculty include quality and productivity and the measurement

of the same, the implications of the university’s faculty demographics, fac-

ulty morale, alignment between faculty prole, faculty research, and fac-

ulty expertise with university strategic direction and student demand, and

labour relations issues.

Statistics Canada breaks down full-time faculty into four basic categor-

ies. is is the breakdown as of –:

1 “Number of Full-time Teaching Sta at Canadian Universities, by Rank, Sex” Table:

37-10-0076-01 Statistics Canada (2019), online: Statistics Canada www150.statcan.

gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710007601.