An Open Letter to the UD Community, November 2, 2020
Please click here to see an open letter to the UD community about mid-term bargaining.
Please click here to see an open letter to the UD community about mid-term bargaining.
AAUP STEERING COMMITTEE RESOLUTION ON THE ADMINISTRATION’S RETIREMENT PROPOSALS After careful consideration, at its meeting on Thursday, April 21, the Steering Committee of the AAUP unanimously voted to reject the current administration’s surprising proposal to phase out the retirement leave and the lump-sum retirement payout proportional to years of service. These retirement benefits, which…
TWO-TIERED RETIREMENT BENEFITS? JUST SAY “NO!” In its shocking initial contract proposals in February 2016, the Administration sought to end retirement leaves and retirement payouts for all faculty members within six years. The Administration also proposed to reduce the University’s contributions to the 403b retirement plan for new faculty members. Following a unanimous rejection of…
May 10, 2016 AAUP-UD Statement on Faculty Governance and Article 3 of the By-Laws of the Board of Trustees of the University of Delaware Relationships and interactions between the University of Delaware’s administrators, the University Faculty Senate and the University of Delaware Chapter of the AAUP (AAUP-UD) are generally open, frank and proceed from positions…
In mid-November, faculty members received notice that their investment options within their TIAA accounts would be changing significantly within several weeks’ time. The AAUP-UD had received no advance notice of these changes and was offered no additional information about them. As a result, the AAUP-UD leadership called for a meeting with UD administration, which was…
May 2022 issue of The Voice (AAUP-UD’s newsletter)
The AAUP, along with other higher education groups, strongly opposes proposed changes included in tax legislation being voted on by Congress this week. The AAUP particularly opposes the repeal of provisions exempting from taxation tuition waivers for campus employees and graduate students, which would cause a devastating tax increase for thousands of graduate students, and…