The Retirees' Newsletter

The Retirees's Association ( Faculty, Librarian, Administrator), University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

Vol X, No. 3, June 2000

This next round of hiring will raise the number of tenure-track positions at Windsor to 489. Between last July and next September, the University of Windsor will have hired 110 full-time professors: 16 last July, 10 maintenance positions during the fall, 23 allocated following the first round of five-year plan reviews by Program Development Committee, five maintenance positions this spring, and the 56 announced yesterday.

The allocation of those 56 positions is distributed among French, Philosophy, Drama, History, Psychology, Communication Studies, Kinesiology, Nursing, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Business, Education, Law and the Leddy Library.

Administration, Faculty Consider

Allocation of Canada Research Chairs

The University of Windsor will name 14 Canada Research Chairs over the next five years under the new federal government initiative to improve the research culture at Canadian universities.

Six of these chairs will be tier one, providing $200,000 a year for salary and support for each senior-level professor. Eight will support more junior professors with $100,000 a year for salary and support. Four will be named this year, three in each of 2001 and 2002, and two in each of 2003 and 2004.

The number of chairs allotted to each Canadian university is based on the previous three years total research funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Medical Research Council, which is now the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

University Names

New Dean of Business

The next Dean of Business Administration at the University of Windsor will be Dr. Roger Hussey of the Bristol Business School, University of West England. Dr. Hussey will join the university early in July.

"Having a strong business school is very important to this university," says Academic Vice-President Neil Gold. "We are very pleased that Dr. Hussey, who is an internationally respected scholar in finance and employee communications, will be at the helm of our business school during this time of momentous change in the very nature of business."

Dr. Hussey is the Deloitte & Touche Professor in Financial Communications at the Bristol Business School. He is the former Director of Research in Employee Communications in the Industrial Relations Unit at Oxford University.

Although he has left Britain for visiting fellowships at Australian universities, he is a newcomer to North America.

His major research interests have been in the regulation, theory and practice of financial accounting and reporting, in accounting standards setting processes, and in factors affecting the financial performances of small and medium enterprises.

Dr. Hussey's 17th book, of which he has either authored or co-authored, is forthcoming. He has contributed chapters in eight other books and has produced a great number of articles and presentations.

New Dean of Law Appointed

An expert in constitutional law and former Associate Dean of Law at the University of Alberta will be the new Dean of Law at the University of Windsor, President Ross Paul has announced.

Bruce Elman is the Belzberg Professor of Constitutional Law and Chair of the Centre for Constitutional Studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from McGill University in 1971, Bachelor of Laws Degree from Dalhousie University in 1974 and Master of Laws Degree from Harvard University in 1975.

Professor Elman takes up his duties in Windsor early in July. "I am very excited about joining the University of Windsor as Dean of the Faculty of Law. I am honoured to be following in the footsteps of a long line of exceptional deans who have been in the forefront of legal education in Canada," says Professor Elman.

Professor Elman's teaching and research interests are in constitutional law, criminal law and civil liberties, and he has received awards for teaching excellence.

His published works are on various topics including criminal law, the law of evidence, constitutional reform, The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, hate propaganda and the Keegstra and Zundel cases, racism, multiculturalism, and human rights.

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