By Michael Hohner

Let’s start wayback (thanks to the Archive.org Wayback machine) when the ink was just drying on the previous UWFA Collective Agreement and move forward to the present with some keen commentary along the way…

http://web.archive.org/web/20020607150035/www.uwinnipeg.ca/web/faculty/admin/index.shtml

…Ah, the simple days when we had about 1/4 less students and half as many VPs. AVPs were almost unheard of and FIPPA and even Human Rights had prominence on the main Administration home page.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040701230905/www.uwinnipeg.ca/web/faculty/admin/index.shtml

A new President and one more VP added.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050205231657/www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/admin-index

Another VP…are they breeding or have we discovered cloning?

http://web.archive.org/web/20051229185753/www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/admin-index

AVPs? …and many Deans, oh my! A detailed org chart and the rationale behind the reorgs that have already occurred and will continue.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060922235842/www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/admin-index

A changing of the old guard for many new names and faces. Many more actors are “acting” as this plot thickens. Did someone mention something about FIPPA missing from the page? Let’s add a Corporate Secretary & General Counsel. Well we’re at it, let’s take a snap shot of University Committees -

http://web.archive.org/web/20060714042715/www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/committees-index

and see where things go on that front

http://web.archive.org/web/20061231080438/www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/committees-index

and perhaps wonder where the real decisions are being made.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070826071221/www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/admin-index

Welcome to the present! Another Dean…More admin units represented…A couple colleges. Are we feeling a bit top heavy or have the Faculty foot soldiers done reasonably well with this [r]evolution?

So many and such dramatic changes in administration since 2002. How well does a 5 year old Collective Agreement hold up to such changes at the top? Grievances in terms of significance and number are possibly one indicator that may provide some perspective on that front, but we’ll also examine many other aspects of this [r]evolution at the top in upcoming newsletters.