Features proposed by the Board that
were successfully removed by the Akron-AAUP negotiation team
include:
- Post-tenure review
- 20% healthcare
contribution, with regressive impact on lowest paid faculty/staff
- Expansive
retrenchment language, threatening individuals and tenure
- A contract duration
of only two years
- No guaranteed shared
governance language, in part, making chairs into heads
- Initial low flat
rates for summer teaching, harming everyone, with no compensatory
raises.
- Undergrad summer
full enrollment minimum of 15
- Multiple
restrictions on academic freedom
- No language on
distance education
-
Administration-controlled merit guidelines
Now, in the contract, we have the Akron-AAUP’s more protective
retrenchment language, elimination of post-tenure review, lower
healthcare contributions, a more protective longer contract (4 years,
not 2 years), guaranteed faculty involvement in shared governance
decisions (e.g., chair and dean selection and review), protective
distance education language, faculty controlled merit guidelines,
faculty controlled departmental market adjustment committees, better
summer compensation rates than the Administration wanted (lower number
for full enrollment, higher dollar amounts per rank, plus an added 2% to
academic year salary pool in 2006-2007 to supplement summer teaching.
Most importantly, having a contract makes us better off than we were
previously because every one of the provisions in the contract must be
bargained, and changes cannot be imposed unilaterally.
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