May 2022 Newsletter
May 2022 issue of The Voice (AAUP-UD’s newsletter)
May 2022 issue of The Voice (AAUP-UD’s newsletter)
On November 22, the AAUP-UD’s Executive Council voted unanimously to file a Step 3 Grievance with the administration concerning faculty 403(b) retirement contributions, and filed this grievance on November 25 through their legal counsel. The grievance was filed because the administration failed to match faculty retirement contributions for the 2018 $1,500 lump sum payment as…
February 2021 Issue of The Voice (AAUP-UD’s Newsletter)
Since we at the AAUP-UD began a membership drive this past September, fifty new faculty members have joined. We welcome all new members to the AAUP-UD! We will continue to send out letters and emails to nonmembers and to ask our department representatives and steering committee members to speak directly to their colleagues about joining….
Please see our April 2019 newsletter here.
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…
Since 2019, seven working groups at UD have been researching and drafting a self-study to present to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education as part of UD’s re-accreditation process. In order to be accredited, an institution is judged by seven standards, and each of the working groups was assigned one standard upon which to…