We have posted the May, 2009 issue of our Right Flier newsletter. This issue features a lead article on finances at Wright State.
	You may view four configurations of semester-based academic calendars. Regular chapter members will be polled about these configurations.
	On March 2, 2009, AAUP-WSU and the administration signed an agreement concerning workload and the anticipated conversion to semesters. Read it in full here.
	Here are some examples illustrating how Article 24 “Minimum Salaries” in the new CBA will work.
	In October, 2007, AAUP-WSU and the administration signed a Memorandum of Understanding initiating a new policy permitting bargaining unit faculty to acquire computers other than those recommended by CaTS (WSU’s department of Computing and Telecommunications Services) and requiring CaTS to support such computers when appropriate approvals are obtained. Need a computer not recommended by CaTS? Read this!
	We have posted an FAQ on the Use of Student Evaluations in the Promotion and Tenure Process.

	Our Collective Bargaining Agreement was ratified in the summer of 2008 and will be in effect until June 30, 2011; you may view it here.
	Why join the AAUP-WSU and how
	Fully approved bylaws have been posted for academic departments and colleges.
	Read recent issues of The Right Flier, the newsletter of the AAUP-WSU.
	Our Collective Bargaining Agreement provides for a grievance procedure; see Article 16. The approved grievance form is available as a pdf document (print out and fill in by hand) and as a Word document, with fields ready to fill in (after which you should print out, sign, and date).
	How to contact the AAUP-WSU
	Contact our Administrative Assistant.
	Officers and Committees of the AAUP-WSU, including the Faculty Governance Committee, Committee W, and the Tenth Anniversary Committee
	Chapter Constitution and Bylaws of the AAUP-WSU
	Links to selected AAUP sites and chapters plus other links, including access to Ohio Revised Code 4117 -- the portion of Ohio state law governing Public Employees' Collective Bargaining

To quote from the association's web site,

"The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that have maintained quality education and academic freedom in this country's colleges and universities for most of the twentieth century, and now in the beginning of the twenty-first century."

Wright State University's chapter -- the AAUP-WSU-- welcomes all university faculty into its membership. The chapter also acts as the collective bargaining agent for tenure-track and tenured faculty (excepting those holding certain administrative appointments at the rank of chair and higher) on both the Dayton and & (lake) campuses. All Wright State University faculty -- instructors, lecturers, clinical faculty, adjunct faculty, faculty with administrative appointments, as well as faculty in the bargaining unit described above -- are cordially invited to join the AAUP-WSU.

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