Vice-Provost, Faculty Affairs
The vice-provost, faculty affairs (VPFA) sets the strategic direction for faculty and instructor appointments, compensation, promotion, and retention.
The VPFA is the chief negotiator and administrator of the university's collective agreement with its faculty, and provides leadership in employee relationships with the Ryerson Faculty Association and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
The VPFA initiates and oversees programs and activities that foster academic professional development.
John Isbister
John Isbister joined Ryerson on July 1, 2010 as vice-provost, faculty affairs. In the four previous years he was dean of humanities and social sciences at Laurentian University in Sudbury. In 2012/13 he served as interim provost and vice president academic at Ryerson.
Isbister spent most of his academic career at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where he was honoured with two distinguished prizes for teaching. He is the author of four books on topics including economic justice, third-world development, immigration policy and community development credit unions. At UCSC, he was provost of Merrill College, an interdisciplinary liberal-arts college focusing on social change in the third world. For 28 years he was director of the Santa Cruz Community Credit Union, an innovative financial institution with emphasis on the needs of low and moderate income people.
Born in Toronto and raised in Ottawa, he earned his BA in History at Queen's and his PhD in Economics at Princeton.
Contact Information
Vice-Provost, Faculty Affairs
John Isbister
416-979-5000 x5101
isbister@ryerson.ca
Administrative Assistant
Iris Clark
416-979-5000 x6287
irclark@ryerson.ca
Office of the Provost
and Vice President Academic
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 2K3
Tel: 416-979-5066
Fax: 416-598-5912
provost@ryerson.ca
