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Welcome to the home page of Wright State University's chapter of AAUP: the American Association of University Professors. On this page, you'll find What's New, Site Highlights, and general information about AAUP. |
Click here for a blast from the past, courtesy of Dr. Mel Goldfinger! |
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A late-April special edition of our Right Flier newsletter is now available online. This issue features a single article “What Did the Administration Know and When Did They Know It?” reporting on recent developments in negotiations. |
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The April, 2008 issue of our Right Flier newsletter is now available online. This issue features articles “Are You Ready?” by chapter President Anna Bellisari, and also “A Primer on Health Savings Accounts” and “Where Things Stand in Negotiations” by Chief Negotiator Rudy Fichtenbaum. | The administration has proposed economic articles that would yield a 6.05% cut in real pay over the next three years. Read all about it in the April, 2008 issue and the late-April special edition of our Right Flier newsletter and also in our reports on negotiations; see especially the pages dedicated to Article 23 (Compensation) and Article 26 (Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance). |
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Negotiations toward a successor of our current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) began on January 25, 2008. Read all about it here, where in particular you’ll find rosters of our Bargaining Council and Negotiating Team, an important truce about workload, a table showing the status of each article in the CBA, and also reports about each negotiating session. | ||
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An agreement governing compensation for Bargaining Unit Faculty who teach in the December, 2007 provides teaching rights beyond those specified in the agreement that applied to the December, 2006, intersession. Read this agreement here. | ||
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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! | ||
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On November 16, 2007, AAUP-WSU and the administration signed an Agreement on Domestic Partner Benefits. | ||
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To clarify and protect summer teaching rights of Bargaining Unit Faculty, we have signed an Agreement on Summer Teaching Assignments with the administration. | ||
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We have posted an FAQ on the Use of Student Evaluations in the Promotion and Tenure Process. | ||
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AAUP-WSU and the administration have signed an Agreement on Parental Accommodations that implements Appendix G in our Collective Bargaining Agreement, the "Side Letter on Parental Leave." Actual and prospective parents, whether by birth or adoption, take a look! | ||
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Our Collective Bargaining Agreement was ratified in the summer of 2005 and will be in effect until June 30, 2008; you may view it here, in the format in which it was printed. |
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Fully approved bylaws have been posted for academic departments and colleges. |
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Read recent issues of The Right Flier, the newsletter of the AAUP-WSU. |
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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). |
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How to contact the AAUP-WSU |
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Contact our Administrative Assistant. |
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Officers and Committees of the AAUP-WSU, including the Faculty Governance Committee, Committee W, and the Tenth Anniversary Committee |
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Chapter Constitution and Bylaws of the AAUP-WSU |
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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 Celina (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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