Earlier this month, Mount Royal University published an update on their website regarding negotiations on a new collective agreement.
Their previous collective agreement expired in June 2024.
According to the update, the university had reached a tentative agreement with the faculty represented by the Mount Royal Faculty Association.
The April 2025 Bargaining Update from Alberta Mediation Services indicates that the two parties had been in mediation since April.
The new agreement includes a 12% wage increase over the life of the agreement, which is retroactive to July 2024 and expires in June 2028. This is similar to wage increases that Lethbridge Polytechnic faculty received in a contract ratified earlier this year.
MRU claims that the new agreement also brings “targeted enhancements” to the following:
- Senior lecturer salary grid
- Contract faculty salary grids
- Health spending account amount for eligible contract faculty
- Professional development funding
- Scholarships for dependents
Starting July 2026, reviews for tenured and permanent faculty will occur biennially.
The new contract also makes official current institutional practices to support reassigned time for tenurable faculty and principal investigators who hold significant external research grants.
There have been changes to the teaching evaluation process, which MRU asserts will ensure that studfents in all courses and sections can provide feedback while also allowing for multiple forms of evidence to evaluate teaching effectiveness.
The new agreement has revised the process for phasing in senior lecturer roles and phasing out fixed-term roles.
Also new to the agreement is a new Indigenization Access Fund, making senior lecturers eligible for sabbaticals, giving lab instructors access to List A, and updating the grievance procedure.
According to the collective bargaining agreement search portal, Alberta Mediation Services reports that the tentative agreement was settled on 9 June 2025.
2 replies on “Mount Royal faculty get 12% raise”
Hello Kim. Thanks for the story but the title is misleading. We did not receive a 12% raise. We received a 12% increase to salaries over three years. 3% increase effective July 1, 2024: reflected on in one pay cheque, a 3% increase effective July 1, 2025: reflected on the next pay cheque; and eligible retroactive adjustments covering the period July 1, 2024 to June 14, 2025 will be included in a subsequent pay cheque. And those increases vary depending on what category of employee we are. Plus all those increases added to our pay cheques are BEFORE taxes.
Mediation Services recorded it as 4 3% increases. I linked to their document in the 5th paragraph of my article.