December 2, 2010
PMA reaches tentative agreement
After just one day of negotiations, The University of Western Ontario and its Professional and Managerial Association (PMA) reached a new four-year tentative agreement yesterday.
The PMA represents about 1,000 full-time employees engaged in managerial and professional roles across the University. Their last contract expired Oct. 31.
Details of the agreement won’t be released until after ratification by the PMA membership and the university’s Board of Governors. The PMA will hold a membership meeting on Dec. 6. Immediately following the meeting, an electronic vote will take place.
Stephenson recognized among Most Powerful Women
Richard Ivey School of Business congratulates Dean Carol Stephenson as a recipient of the 2010 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards. Each year through the awards, the Women’s Executive Network recognizes the country’s highest achieving female leaders in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
“I am proud to follow in a long and distinguished line of successful women in the Ivey tradition to accept this prestigious honour,” Stephenson says. “One of our goals at Ivey is to inspire many more young women to pursue careers in business. Celebrating women’s achievements and the many outstanding women leaders on Canada is one important way to do that.”
Promoting wellbeing for the whole student
After months of work, the Health Promotion Division of Student Health Services launched a health and wellness section to their website. The very next day a phone call was received from Western Law. “The information on your website is exactly what we have been looking for.”
Those were the words of Emilia Hugel, Western Law Student Services assistant, who had been working on developing health/wellness initiatives for her faculty.
Thrilled to be sharing information, a natural partnership has evolved between the Health Promotion Division and Student Services at the law school. Health Promotion continues to share information upon which law’s health website and initiatives are built.
“It is all very exciting and we look forward to a continued relationship,” Hugel says.
Western Law recognized mental wellbeing as integral for coping with the pressures of law school and beyond. Therefore, they are attempting to promote the concept of balance.
Mental health and social support are predictors of academic achievement. Education encompasses more than just attending lectures and studying for exams; it includes a healthy lifestyle to keep mind, body, spirit and emotions in balance.
Learning how to manage stress and balance multiple demands is an essential aspect of university education. It is worrisome students often lack basic information about the importance of sleep, eating and exercise. When these things become unbalanced, stressors build, having a domino effect. We can certainly do more to educate and to give students the tools to succeed.
Aware of the issues their students face, each faculty is in a unique position to respond with information that addresses the specific health and wellness needs of their students. Please contact Health Promotion at Student Health if you are interested in developing health and wellness initiatives for your department or find them at shs.uwo.ca.- Nicole Versaevel