To my colleagues at the Brandon University,

This e-mail is written to offer support for the quality environment you seek at the Brandon University.  Continuity of program delivery ensures quality learning for the students your university serves!  Sessional professors ought to receive the same level of respect for their contributions to educating students as any other professor in the academy!  Valuing the contributions of sessional professors through equal pay for equal work represents a tangible demonstration of respect!  Respectful environments impact upon job satisfaction/dissatisfaction and importantly retention and recruitment!  Respectful, and therefore healthy workplace environments and relationships cannot be achieved without transparency and collegiality!  We must make every effort to understand the full meaning of these important concepts and move beyond their rhetorical representations.  Fair and equitable salaries are important for the reasons cited above.  Thank you for the political action you undertake on behalf of all of us, many of whom have made the considered decision to enter the academy as a means of contributing to the society within which we are all engaged.  You have my full support!

Kindest Regards,


Anne 

Dr. R. Anne Springer
RN (SRNA) PhD MN BScN MSCN
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan
Rm 309 - St. Andrew's College
1121 College Drive,Saskatoon, SK,S7N 0W3

Phone: (306) 966-4631 - Fax: (306) 966-1745
e-mail: ra.springer@usask.ca
http://www.usask.ca/nursing/people/details.php?details=springer_r_a