Original document: the Provost’s interview in the News-Gazette (April 21, 2016). Detect language: admin-speak Translate into: reality Administrators want multiyear contracts to be based on merit and performance… Translation – Administrators have set up a system that excludes almost all non-tenure-track faculty from multiyear contracts. The system is working! Merely 19 non-tenure-track faculty members campus-wide have multiyear contracts. TheContinue reading “Translation of Provost’s interview in News-Gazette”
Category Archives: Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Translation of Chancellor’s massmail and bargaining position
Original documents: Chancellor’s massmail (April 19) and administration bargaining positions on non-tenure-track faculty union contract Detect language: admin-speak Translate into: reality Multiyear contracts should be based on performance and evaluation. Performance evaluations are too difficult, and so the administration refuses to agree to them in the union contract. The administration is not responsible for the fact that onlyContinue reading “Translation of Chancellor’s massmail and bargaining position”
Provost responds on civility – but ducks the question
The Campus Faculty Association asked the Provost at the beginning of October to “explain how civility is to be defined and evaluated in hiring, promotion, and tenure cases at the University of Illinois.” The question is pertinent and topical, and as the top academic officer of the campus, the Provost should be well placed to answer it.Continue reading “Provost responds on civility – but ducks the question”
Labor Board Agrees: Unfreeze NTT Wages and Promotions Now
Yesterday, October 16, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB) held a hearing on the wage and promotion freeze that currently affects non-tenure-track faculty at UIUC. After hearing both sides, the IELRB concluded that CFA Local #6546 is in the right, and the University Administration is in the wrong. The Board recommended “injunctive relief”: thatContinue reading “Labor Board Agrees: Unfreeze NTT Wages and Promotions Now”
Meeting of the Faculty: non-tenure-track member Dorothee Schneider calls for “good faith” from Administration
Statement to the Meeting of the Faculty, October 13, 2014 Dear Colleagues, Dear Senate President Campbell, Dear President Easter, Dear Chancellor Wise, Dear Provost Adesida. I would like to speak on behalf of the almost 500 non-tenure track (NTT) faculty who work on this campus and who do not usually participate in this meeting orContinue reading “Meeting of the Faculty: non-tenure-track member Dorothee Schneider calls for “good faith” from Administration”
Be at the Alma Mater, September 11, Noon
Meet Us at the Alma Mater, Noon, Thursday, September 11
Dear Colleagues, As you know, UIUC faces an unprecedented crisis of academic freedom and shared governance. At the same time, our non-tenure-track colleagues are facing frozen wages and an unwillingness to bargain, while clerical staff on campus are battling the destruction of their collective bargaining agreement. Clearly, the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Wise areContinue reading “Meet Us at the Alma Mater, Noon, Thursday, September 11”
Local 6546 Files ULP for Wage Freezes and Failure to Bargain
[Update 9/5/2014: the administration now wishes to identify “mutually agreeable dates and times for bargaining.” See the Timeline page. No movement on the frozen wage increases.] 9/3/2014 CHAMPAIGN- On Wednesday, September 3, the Campus Faculty Association, Local6546 (IFT/AFT/AAUP), the union of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign filed an unfair labor practice chargeContinue reading “Local 6546 Files ULP for Wage Freezes and Failure to Bargain”
Chancellor wants to restrict academic freedom
Chancellor Wise is quoted in today’s News-Gazette saying “There’s no hard and fast policy, and I think that one of the good things that can come out of that is a really active discussion, symposia, workshops, seminars on what is considered academic freedom and what is considered freedom of speech in light of digital media.”Continue reading “Chancellor wants to restrict academic freedom”
Admin game plan for non-tenure-track faculty: stall, stall, stall
Now that non-tenure-track faculty have a union (CFA Local 6546), members naturally think “we’ll elect our representatives and they can sit down with the administration to start bargaining, right?” Not so fast! The administration’s game plan so far The administration maintains a standing arrangement with anti-union law firm “Clark Baird Smith” from Chicago. Here’s the game plan they are following…Continue reading “Admin game plan for non-tenure-track faculty: stall, stall, stall”
The Little Orange & Blue Book: Quotations from Chairman Kennedy
Greetings, friends, from the Campus Faculty Association! Members of the university community have been urged to value civility as much as scholarship(1). In this spirit, we can learn much from the wisdom of the Board of Trustees on issues of the day. For this reason we are proud to present: The Little Orange & Blue Book:Continue reading “The Little Orange & Blue Book: Quotations from Chairman Kennedy”
Chancellor decrees faculty at Illinois are subject to civility test; Trustees back her to the hilt
Chancellor Wise broke her long silence on the Salaita case by launching a frontal assault on academic freedom and shared governance. Her campus massmail of August 22 seems perfectly reasonable at first reading – this campus is generally a friendly and cordial place, and who would want to change that? – but what she actually asserts is alarming: “What weContinue reading “Chancellor decrees faculty at Illinois are subject to civility test; Trustees back her to the hilt”
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