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The UT-AAUP held a membership meeting last Friday, September 15, 2023. A vote was held on whether the UT-AAUP will picket or not. The vote was 90% in favor. We are conducting a second vote online at our UT-AAUP website (utaaup.com). If you voted at the meeting, please vote again. We have added abstain as…

Faculty Write-ups Faculty Labor Relations has told the UT-AAUP that Chairs are being instructed to write-up faculty for any complaint – no matter how minor it may be. Kristen Fitzpatrick of Faculty Labor Relations is meeting with Chairs to inform them of this new directive. The purpose is to document alleged complaints against faculty for…

Matt Schroeder, Executive VP of Finance, has been meeting with the Deans about their budgets. Matt has told the Provost and the Deans that the colleges must take another $17 million in new budget cuts. The Med School is excluded from these new cuts. Matt’s Narrative is to cut academics, meaning programs and faculty. The…

Federal Judge Zouhary has issued a July 31, 2023 decision in favor of a disabled UT Associate Lecturer. The Lecturer is a 40-year-old mother of four young children. She had cancer and went through multiple treatments. Ultimately, her left arm and shoulder were amputated. The UT disability carrier, Unum, refused her disability claim because it…

The UT-AAUP has posted on its website an Analysis of the UT Financial Position from 2007 to 2022. The Analysis is based on audited UT financials and IPEDS data. This was prepared for the UT-AAUP by Dr. Rudy Fichtenbaum, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Wright State University. The national AAUP commissioned this report and work by…

Attached is the census enrollment report for Summer 2023. Summer headcount is down 12.2% and FTE is down 12% compared to 2022. The data includes all 2023 Summer sessions (both FY 23-Summer I, FY24-Summer II, and Summer III). Over 30% of the Summer courses were cut. Matt Schroeder wanted Summer courses cut AND the Provost Office did…

HR’s answers to our questions are presented below as received. These answers are under review by UT-AAUP legal counsel Allotta Farley. Faculty comments are welcome. HR has advised there are three submission dates for dependent documentation because HR does not want all of the documents being submitted at the last minute. The three submission dates…

This newsletter is in response to the many inquiries and complaints from UT-AAUP faculty concerning the Bethany Ziviski HR announcement of June 1, 2023. This newsletter is also being sent to President Gregory Postel and Finance VP Matt Schroeder who is also in charge of HR. On June 1, 2023, Bethany Ziviski, Interim Sr. Associate…

The Administration announced to the media on June 6, 2023 that Matt Schroeder will present a FY 2024 academic budget to the Board of Trustees on June 22, 2023 with cuts of at least 7% or $28 million. This is old news. This was previously reported in the UT-AAUP newsletter of May 8, 2023 entitled…

By Linda Marie Rouillard Well, it’s Groundhog Day here in Ohio with SB 83, a proposal brought to the floor of the Ohio Senate last week. Remember SB 5 from 2011 when President Jacobs testified in favor of eliminating collective bargaining rights from Ohio institutions of higher education? Jacobs “estimated” he could save $10 million…