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…
AAUP EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CALLS FOR GREATER TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ADMINISTRATION The University of Delaware’s Board of Trustees has become increasingly engaged in shaping decision making on vital academic issues at our university. During the recently concluded contract negotiations with the AAUP, which lasted more than…
In the vote for ratification of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, 582 ballots were distributed. When voting ended at 5pm on April 5, 2017, the final vote was 412 to accept and 38 to reject. Negotiations for the new contract were long and arduous. The AAUP Bargaining Team and the University Bargaining Team had twenty-two…
To view the 2016-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the University of Delaware and the University of Delaware Chapter, American Association of University Professors click here.
The American Association of University Professors and the AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress have never endorsed or supported a candidate for president of the United States or otherwise engaged in partisan political activity on the national level. For over one hundred years the AAUP has vigilantly defended the professional rights and the academic freedom of all…
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…
THE STATE OF CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE ADMINISTRATION As we begin the fall semester, the AAUP and the Administration have not reached agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Until a new contract is negotiated, approved by the AAUP Steering Committee, and ratified by the AAUP membership, the 2013-2016 Agreement will remain in effect. Salaries,…
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…
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…
Below you will find a link to a summary of the results of the AAAUP faculty survey, conducted earlier this spring. 508 (44%) of your colleagues responded to this survey, which is distributed periodically by the AAUP-UD to ask for input on questions which impact our working and personal environments. This year the survey posed…