* Please note that this webinar will be offered in English and is open only to employees of Canadian universities and colleges.

Date and Time: Monday, March 31, 2025, 1:00-2:30 PM
Target Audience: All senior administrators within finance, procurement, and risk management who are interested in this issue.

Universities everywhere across Canada are engaging in Sustainable Procurement and leveraging their supply chain to prevent social and environmental risks and generate positive outcomes for communities. As part of their Sustainable Procurement toolkit, many universities have developed and are using of a Supplier Code of Conduct to convey minimal expectations from their suppliers in terms of ethical business practices, as well as social and environmental commitments.

In Part 2 of this webinar series, the presenters will focus on the work that happens after the adoption of a Supplier Code of Conduct.  McGill University and the London Universities Purchasing Consortium will present how institutions can help ensure compliance with their Supplier Code of Conduct by engaging in risk assessment, communications, monitoring, capacity building, as well as collaborating with worker-led initiatives and organisations conducting on-site audits.

This session will be useful to colleagues interested in Sustainable Procurement or institutions falling in scope of the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act.

There will be opportunities for interaction during the webinar via a Q&A session that will follow the presentation. This 90-minute webinar is intended for all administrators interested/involved in sustainable procurement.

This CAUBO PD activity may count towards credits for accreditation programs and designations in your field. Visit the CAUBO website for more details.

Presenters:

Stéphanie H. Leclerc Program Manager, Sustainable Procurement, Procurement Services McGill University Stéphanie H. Leclerc is McGill University’s Program Manager for Sustainable Procurement. She is guiding the University’s efforts to develop a more sustainable supply chain by taking account of social, environmental, and ethical principles. She works in close collaboration with other administrative staff, faculty members, and students, and she engages in capacity-building with suppliers, and other institutions, to help ensure alignment between procurement activities and the University’s broader Sustainability and Climate Strategy. She is co-founder and co-chair of CASPAR, Canada’s interuniversity working-group on Sustainable Procurement. She holds graduate degrees in Political Science and Management for Sustainability, and she recently completed her PhD with the McGill School of Urban Planning.

Margaret Shapiro Responsible Procurement Lead London Universities Purchasing Consortium Mags is responsible for helping LUPC to implement policy, develop and implement strategy, conduct research and training in responsible procurement. She supports senior category managers to embed responsible procurement throughout the lifecycle of LUPC's framework agreements and supports suppliers to meet human rights and environmental criteria set against global benchmarks. Mags joined LUPC as Responsible Procurement Lead in May 2023 after moving from South Africa, where she ran a sustainability consulting practice for over 15 years. She has worked with global brands and retailers, consulted and trained for the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and participated in research programmes for Durham and Manchester Universities. Mags has a wide range of experience across the private sector in retail, clothing, textiles & footwear, mining, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), services and manufacturing, civil society and the public sector. She has a Social Science degree from the University of Kwazulu Natal (South Africa).

Join us for CAUBO’s Annual Conference in Edmonton, Alberta

Registration is open now!

From June 9-11, 2025, the CAUBO Annual Conference is in Edmonton, Alberta. Mark those dates in your calendar now!

We’ll open the conference in high style on Monday evening with a Welcome Reception steeped in history at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald. On Tuesday afternoon, following the sessions, experience western vibes at a networking reception at the Edmonton Convention Centre, featuring a performance by members of the local Indigenous community, plus some traditional Western line dancers while enjoying local fare!

As at last year’s conference, there will be no Farewell Evening in 2025, and the trade show will take place on Tuesday only.

If you’ve been waiting to hear more about CAUBO 2025, you can visit the conference website now and get an overview of the conference schedule, full program, registration rates, and review the FAQ section.

We can’t wait to see you in Edmonton—join us for CAUBO 2025!

Share Your Insights in CAUBO’s Trend Talks Series

Submissions as part of this first series of content selections will be accepted until
November 22, 2024, at 5:00 pm (ET).

Does your organization have a pulse on emerging domestic or global trends that are expected to have a substantive impact on the Canadian higher education administration sector, be it at the institutional or functional administrative level?

If so, we encourage you to submit a proposal for the 2025 CAUBO Trend Talk series.

CAUBO is currently accepting proposals from Canadian and international associations, industry experts, consultants as well as private sector firms to participate in our pilot project: Trend Talks to be scheduled throughout 2025.

This pilot project stems from one of the strategies outlined in CAUBO’s 2023-2028 Strategic Plan launched in September 2023.

To proactively capture and disseminate trends that will shape the future of higher education administration,
to enable the early development of forward-thinking solutions.

In support of this strategy, CAUBO is aiming to broaden the range of information sources (external to the association membership; Canadian and beyond; within and outside the sector; etc.) for early identification of issues and opportunities that will have a substantive impact on the higher education administrative sector.

Trends will be shared with members through a series of virtual events, titled Trend Talks.

These presentations may take the form of Ted Talks, webinars, lunch & learns, podcasts, interviews etc.). CAUBO, in conjunction with the presenters from the selected submissions, will determine the ideal format based on the content and audience. This is not a fee-based opportunity. There will be no reimbursement of costs.

For a proposal to be considered, the trend needs to:

• Be new/emerging – not already on the radar of the majority of CAUBO members.
• Be expected to have an immediate or future impact on higher education administration.
  This connection/application must be illustrated within the proposal.
• Impact a broad segment of CAUBO’s institutional membership (relevant to small or large, undergraduate, or research-intensive institutions, etc.).
• Affect the university as a whole or a specific functional area. This should be specified within the proposal.
• Be of national relevance (not only specific to a handful of provinces).

Click here to learn more and
to submit a proposal now!

The list of accreditation programs and organizations that may provide continuing education credit for CAUBO professional development activities is below. This list may be incomplete, so if you know of others that should be added, please let us know by emailing kserjak@caubo.ca.

• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
• American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
• Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA)
• Association For Supply Chain Management
• Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP)
• Board of Certified Safety Professionals
• Canada’s Association of I.T. Professionals (CIPS)
• Canadian Institute of Traffic & Transportation (CITT)
• Canadian Payroll Association
• CFA Institute
• Chartered Professionals in Human Resources (CPHR)
• CIM Chartered Managers Canada
• CPA Canada
• The Institute of Internal Auditors Canada
• ISACA
• Institute for Supply Management in the US
• LEED Green Associate/LEED AP
• National Institute of Government Procurement (NIGP)
• Ontario Public Buyers Association (OPBA)
• Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
• Supply Chain Canada