A federation dedicated to defending and promoting the interests of universities and professors
Who we are
The Federation
Since 1991, the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d’université brings together faculty unions and associations and pursues the mission of maintaining, defending, promoting and developing universities as public services accessible to the most significant number of people, governed collegially, offering quality training and fostering the advancement of knowledge and critical thinking, notably through respect for academic freedom. The Federation is a politically oriented body for consultation and democratic union action, dedicated to defending and promoting the interests of its members and the university community.
The Federation comprises 19 unions and associations, uniting some 8,250 professors at Quebec universities. It acts as the voice of its affiliated members on all issues affecting higher education and research.
To learn more about the Federation’s governance, the operation of its finances, its Federal Council and Executive Committee, and its by-laws, consult the FQPPU by-laws and regulations (in French).
Scope of action
The Federation supports its members in their activities, facilitates relations between them and intervenes with governments, the media and various organizations on issues concerning higher education and research.
It produces opinions, surveys, and reports on the role of universities in society, higher education, and professors’ working conditions.
It maintains relations with various partners in higher education and education at large. It develops links of solidarity with teachers’ unions and the trade union movement, both nationally and internationally, and with organizations in the higher education sector pursuing similar objectives.
Internal committees
The Committee on Academic Freedom (COPLA) documents, protects and promotes academic freedom.
The Equity Committee guides the Federation’s efforts to make university environments fair and discrimination-free.
Members
- Association des ingénieurs-professeurs des sciences appliquées de l’Université de Sherbrooke (AIPSA)
- Association McGillienne de professeur.e.s de droit / Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPD / AMPL)
- Association des Professeur(e)s et Bibliothécaires de McGill / McGill Association of University Teachers (APBM / MAUT)
- Association des professeurs/seures de Bishop’s University / Association of Professors of Bishop’s University (APBU)
- Association des professeurs(es) des collèges militaires du Canada (APCMC)
- Association des professeurs de l’École Polytechnique de Montréal (APEP)
- Association des professeures et professeurs de l’École nationale de l’administration publique (APPENAP)
- Association des professeurs de l’Université Concordia / Concordia University Faculty Association (APUC / CUFA)
- Syndicat général des professeures et professeurs de l’Université de Montréal (SGPPUM)
- Syndicat des professeurs/es de l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (SPINRS)
- Syndicat des professeures et des professeurs de la Télé-université (SPPTU)
- Syndicat des professeures et professeurs de l’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (SPPUQAC)
- Syndicat des professeurs et des professeures de l’Université du Québec à Rimouski (SPPUQAR)
- Syndicat des professeurs et des professeures de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (SPPUQTR)
- Syndicat des professeures et professeurs de l’Université de Sherbrooke (SPPUS)
- Syndicat de professeurs et professeures de l’Université Laval (SPUL)
- Syndicat des professeurs et professeures de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (SPUQ)
- Syndicat des professeures et professeurs de l’Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (SPUQAT)
- Syndicat des professeures et professeurs de l’Université du Québec en Outaouais (SPUQO)
Alliances
FQPPU is a member of Education International (EI) and is involved, among other things, in Education International – Higher Education and Research.
It has signed a cooperation protocol with the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT).
FQPPU is an active member of the Canadian Public Education Network (PEN/REP) and the Canadian Consortium for Research, demonstrating our proactive engagement in these networks.
In Quebec, it is a member of the Table des partenaires universitaires (TPU).
Privacy Act
The president of the FQPPU is responsible for protecting personal information within the meaning of the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector.
You can reach the president at :
PO BOX 81 STN A
Montreal QC H3G 2K5
[email protected]