Bargaining  We have been bargaining with the college since the fall and will be taking a break in May to accommodate holiday schedules. The break is also tactical, as we want to have the option to use our power by way of a strike vote if we need to. Job action or the...

Report to the VCC Board of Governors, March 29th, 2023 Prepared by Taryn Thomson, VCCFA President   International on the Rise The financial statements in our package project that 43% of our students will be International in the coming year, and that 73% of our tuition...

Report to the VCC Board of Governors, February 2023 Prepared by Taryn Thomson, VCCFA President   2023 Focus: VCC Sustainability It has been almost seven months since VCC, the SUVCC and the VCCFA made submissions to the BC Post-Secondary Funding review. All has been...

Looking back, Looking forward In preparing to write this message, I read over what I wrote last year at this time. Then, it was all about vaccine mandates (or not), vaccine passports, stresses about return to campus, and questions around who to notify if our students...

Report to the College Board - September 28th, 2022 - oral report   Welcome back - trust everyone had a restorative and fun summer! Funding review - It was heartening that all the stakeholder groups at the college were aligned in our presentations to the funding...

July 15, 2022 Vancouver Community College Faculty Association 401-402 West Pender StreetVancouver, BC Mr. Don Wright, Thanks for the opportunity to provide input on behalf of the roughly 600 Faculty who work at Vancouver Community College. I am currently the president...