M. Louise Ripley,
M.B.A., Ph.D.
One third of
a professor's job is teaching, one third is research, and the remaining third
is service - to the university, the academic community, and the larger
community. Here is some of what I do in my Service
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YUFA
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In 2009/10, as in 06-09, I am serving as YUFA's Communications Officer. In
2006/07, I served
on YUFA's Bargaining Team for contract negotiations.
In 1997, after 17 years as a
professor of management I finally was able to honour the
contributions of my father, Stephen Ripley, an
American labour union organizer, in the York University Faculty Association Strike where I served as a Picket Captain on the
Sentinel Road Gate. If you were
here then and saw a woman in a yellow hard hat and
steel toed boots on the picket line, that was me
If you're wondering how a teacher
could go on strike knowing her students will suffer, you
can read the text of my speech, "Radicalization
and Renewal: The YUFA Grand Strike of 1997" given to
the Atkinson Alum Association when I won their Teaching Excellence
Award
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Since the strike, I have served my union as Atkinson's
representative on the Union Executive, as the Vice Chair for
Organization, as YUFA's representative on the CAUT Defense Fund Board of
Trustees, as the Union Steward for the School of
Administrative Studies (first in its history), as a member of
the 2006-07 Negotiating Team, and most recently as
YUFA's Communications Officer.
As a member of the CAUT
Defense Fund Flying Picket, I visit picket lines of other
university faculty/librarian unions on strike as we bring our
message of solidarity and support (a $20 million defense fund
and a reminder that no union ever walks a picket line alone). Here I am at a
19 October 2007 visit to Acadia University in Wolfville during their strike (middle
of second row). You can
read reports of these visits at CAUT
Flying Picket Visit Reports
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The School of Administrative Studies
Meetings - fourth Thursday of the
month 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
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The
School of Women's
Studies
Member of the Designated Voting Pool;
Meetings - Tuesdays 2:30-4:30 p.m. once per month |
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Convocations - Spring and Fall
I am always at Convocation; I consider it the best and most important
day of the academic year. Strangely, although I had served with high praise for a number of years
as the University Orator, introducing the honourary
graduate at York convocations, since taking an active part
in the 1997 YUFA strike, the Administration has informed me that
my services are no longer required. I am certain it must just be a
coincidence
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Internal/External examiner for PhD and Masters
defenses
As a member of the Faculty of Graduate
Studies, I serve on a number of masters
and doctoral oral defense committees across the
University. Strangely, although I had served with high praise for a number of years
as an examiner in doctoral orals for the Schulich School of Business, since taking an active part
in the 1997 YUFA strike, they have not asked me to serve again. I am certain it must just be an
oversight.
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Masters in
Environmental Studies
programme
I serve as a Secondary Advisor for students
here and supervise Master's Theses. I also offer the course ES5078 or
Independent Reading courses in Social Marketing
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Interdisciplinary Studies
I have served as a supervising
committee member for graduate students here
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Women's Studies
I have served on the Executive Board of the
Office of The Status of Women and on the Board of the Centre for
Feminist Research. I have spoken to a number of women's
groups and government agencies on issues of women and business,
particularly in the area of women and risk taking
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First
Unitarian Congregation of Toronto
I serve as Editor of the Newsletter of the
First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto. I have served as Treasurer and as a Worship Leader in
the Unitarian Universalist denomination, a denomination that holds that belief is determined by the
individual and not dictated from outside and which holds that we
only get one life - the one we live right here and now. Some beliefs we
share as a group include an acceptance of the inherent worth
and dignity of every person, an appreciation for the
interconnected web of existence, and an understanding of the
importance of justice equity and compassion in human relations -
much of which influences how I try to teach in the classroom and
live my life
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My Neighbourhood
I'm involved with the Neighbourhood Watch programme
where I live, and I pick up trash in the ravine and the Hydro
field while walking my dog as my contribution to cleaning up the
environment
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 York University, Toronto
© M. Louise Ripley, M.B.A.,
Ph.D.
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