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LSTA and Conversion Program Announcement

CUPE 3903 would like to warmly congratulate these members for their success in the 2022-2023 Long Service Teaching Appointments (LSTAs) and Conversions exercises! LSTAs are a guaranteed work intensity over several years for senior contract faculty, while successful conversion applicants join YUFA as tenure-stream faculty.

Long Service Teaching Appointments (LSTA)

David Kyungwon Lee, LAPS
Elizabeth (Zab) Hobart, AMPD
Alireza Rafiee, Science
Richardine Woodall, LAPS/Glendon
Myles Wieselman, LAPS
Kirk Atkinson, LAPS
Eric Bronson, LAPS
Hui Wang, Lassonde
Andriy Pavlovych, Lassonde
Carl Wolfe, Science

Conversions

Valerie Florentin, Glendon
Lorin Schwartz, Education

If you are a member of Unit 2 and you are interested in preparing an application file for these job security programs, please consider joining one of the introductory workshops scheduled in September.

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CUPE 3903 represents the contract faculty, teaching assistants, graduate assistants, and research assistants, part-time librarians and archivists, and Canadian Observatory on Homelessness workers at York University. 

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  • CUPE 3903, 143 Atkinson Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3
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