Hendrick de Haan

When we say that we are overworked, we don't mean we want more time off. We mean that we lack the time to do our best on the things that matter to students. Overworked faculty comprises the quality of education that students receive. #ONStrikeU @UOITFA @ontariotech_u

@UOITFA @ontariotech_u @DrStevenMurphy @lorilivingsto17 oof - that comma ...

According to @ontariotech_u's strategic plan, *every* student should have these experiences. But the @ontariotech_u proposal would make that impossible. #SupervisionIsTeaching @drstevenmurphy @lorilivingsto17 #ONstrikeU

Profs only have so much time for each of their many duties. Increased workload, unusually high student:faculty ratios, and large class sizes = less time per student. Sustainable workloads improve the quality of education for our students. #ONstrikeU @UOITFA @ontariotech_u

Tonight’s @GlobalDurham story on the ongoing @ontariotech_u faculty strike includes interviews with @UOITFA professors @TimothyMacneill, @DrVivianS and #KimberlyNugent. #ONstrikeU #FairDeal

Faculty love to bring students into their research labs and hands-on teach them real-world skills. In refusing to credit this work, @ontariotech_u is disincentivizing and discouraging these efforts. Students, this takes opportunities away from YOU! @UOITFA #ONstrikeU

"The reality of the workload issue is to be fair by not applying a one-size-fits-all approach" @ontariotech_u "one-size-fits-all" = fair. You take us for fools. We see through this wordsmithing. 2-course releases per Faculty to be administered at the Deans' discretion is a joke.

@ontariotech_u "The university... values the contributions of all faculty members" REALLY?! Might want to rethink how you're showing this. I've never felt less valued in 13 years in academia. Pls hear what the @UOITFA is saying. We're have no more to give. #supervisionISteaching #ONStrikeU

@RinaldiJen @UOITFA Missing the momentum the students and I had built up as we advance to increasingly powerful concepts. We were just about to discuss: 1. How we can use a random number generator to calculate integrals 2. How entropy is a critical part of the nanoscopic dynamics that drive life

Hey @UOITFA members, what did you miss out on teaching one full week into the strike?

.@MIT, @uOttawa, @yorkuniversity, @mylakehead, @Laurier, @WesternU and @NipissingU all say Supervision = Teaching. Why is @ontariotech_u refusing to do the same? Aren’t our students worth the investment? #WorkingConditionsAreLearningConditions #BindingArbitrationNOW #FairDeal

Beautiful day to be on the picket lines showing support for hardworking @UOITFA faculty. They are striking because @ontariotech_u refuses to address concerns about overwhelming workloads, education quality, and #equity. #onpse #onlab #BindingArbitrationNOW #OnstrikeU

After 9 months of bargaining and several days into a strike, it’s pretty shocking that @drstevenmurphy, @lorilivingsto17, & @ontariotech_u, don’t understand the definition of teaching. #ONStrikeU #OTUstrike #MurphysLegacy @UOITFA

(Just kidding about forgetting #Wordle… please don’t ratio!)

Forget #Wordle, here’s a real puzzle: 1. Taking students on in research labs gives them Experiential Learning™ 2. They Learn™ via the Prof teaching/training them 3. @ontariotech_u insists: no teaching credit for profs taking students on in the lab #ONStrikeU @UOITFA

@ontariotech_u does not think that student supervision = teaching. This requires a willful act of contrived ignorance...Or actual ignorance of what's involved in student supervision. Since @ontariotech_u does not want #BindingArbitrationNow I think it is the first one. @UOITFA

On one of the key #ONStrikeU issues, this is the holding pattern that @ontariotech_u (led by @DrStevenMurphy and @lorilivingsto17) is using and thereby extending the strike. Break the infinite loop and #BargainForReal or #BindingArbitrationNow! @UOITFA #SupervisionIsTeaching

@UOITFA Experiential learning is important! It needs to be counted fairly as part of our teaching loads. #GetUsBackInTheClassroom #InvisibleWorkload #WorkingConditionsAreLearningConditions

When I got this job at @ontariotech_u I thought is was my dream job. I was going to make a difference. I was going to give experiences to students who otherwise wouldn't get them. If supervision isn't teaching then I can't 😕 #SupervisionIsTeaching #OTUstrike @UOITFA #ONstrikeU

The irony is not lost on me: my Env Comm class is scheduled to discuss "Direct Action and Radical Communication" tmrw. As @PSAC555 I'm legally obliged to teach during the ongoing @UOITFA strike, we're doing a teach-in to read the materials together out loud. #Solidarity

The "What do I do when confronted by unmasked students and profs?" question is getting raised more and more often. The reason is because our university managers have dropped the ball. On purpose.

Experiential learning is important! It needs to be counted fairly as part of our teaching loads. Teaching occurs in the classroom AND in the research labs – @ontariotech_u needs to acknowledge this. #ONStrikeU #GetUsBackInTheClassroom #InvisibleWorkload #FairDeal #OTUstrike