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* NTT Data Bank Documents Web Page
* Information for NTT International Scholars
* Conversion Proposal before the University Senate
* NTT Task Force
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Contract Update, January 2008
* President McCormick accepts University Senate recommendations to extend NTT rights
* "On the Brink" Schuster and Finkelstein summarize their research on the problem of contingency in the American academy.
* Other links to non-tenure track issues
Information for NTT International Scholars
Two documents about permanent residency ("green card") applications for non-tenure track employees who are international scholars:
1. A list of higher education institutions that provide "green card" support for international scholars
2. A Memorandum from the Department of Homeland Security, June 6, 2006. This document provides guidance on applying the requirement of a "permanent offer of employment" for oustanding professors and researchers. Especially relevant are the revisions to the Adjudicator's Field Manual (AFM). Scroll down to Section V. to read the AFM Update.
3. Daily Targum article, December 12, 2007: "Foreign Research Associates Mired in Bureaucracy" by Michelle Walbaum
4. Daily Targum article, January 25, 2008: "U. Green Policies Not in Step with Other Schools"
by Michelle Walbaum
5. Inside Higher Education, February 8, 2008: "Any Advice on Visas?"
Click this link to read article on their website: http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2008/02/08/visas
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Conversion Proposal before University Senate
Professors Zoran Gajic, Karen Thompson, and Richard Moser presented this contingency faculty proposal. It is being reviewinf by the Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee of the University Senate. They will conisder and make recommendations to the Senate Executive Committee by March 2008. Read the pending charge that is posed to the University Senate web site:
http://senate.rutgers.edu/ContingentFacultyProposal_KThompson090507.pdf
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Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Task Force
The Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Task Force has been charged and has held their first meeting.
The NTT Faculty Task Force is composed of the following:
Michael Beals, Chair of the NTT Faculty Task Force, who is the Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education of the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) in New Brunswick and Professor of Mathematics.
Joseph Barone, Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice & Administration, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Kenneth Breslauer, Vice President for Health Science Partnerships; Dean, Division of Life Sciences; and Professor, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, SAS
Gary Brill,
Instructor, Department of Psychology, SAS, New Brunswick
David Devore, Associate Research Professor, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, SAS
Richard Edwards, Dean, School of Social Work
Stephen Finn,
Associate Research Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, Center for Urban Policy Research
Ann Gordon, Director, Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers Project, Research Professor, Department of History, SAS
Ann Gould, Associate Extension Specialist, School of Biological & Environmental Sciences, and Member of the Rutgers University Senate Executive Committee
Jerry Kukor, Dean, Academic & Student Programs and Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences
Barbara Lee, Professor, Department of Human Resource Management, School of Management & Labor Relations
Rosa Oppenheim, Executive Vice Dean, Rutgers Business School--Newark and Professor, Department of Management Science & Information Systems
Donald Siegel, Lecturer, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, SAS, New Brunswick
Rayman Solomon, Dean, Law School, Camden
Kurt Spellmeyer, Director of the Writing Program, and Professor, Department of English, SAS
Sean Spinello, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
Karen Stubaus, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
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Contract Update, January 2008
Non-Tenure Track Faculty had representatives on the bargaining team for the 2007-2011 contract. The following documents show what we were able to negotiate with the administration bargaining team and a summary of the proposals we took to the bargaining table. There is a wide gap between the two documents, which reveals the hard work we must do to make real improvements in the working conditions for non-tenure track faculty. Be active on the NTT Caucus and help us work to improve your working conditions.
Summary of the Originial NTT Proposals 2007 (pdf)
Negotiated NTT Provisions, 2007-2011 (pdf)
Note: This document shows the language the union bargaining team proposed to the Rutgers Administration bargaining team in the final round of negotiations on the NTT portion of the contract. The language crossed out is the section that the administration team did not accept. The remaining language is what members voted on and approved in the successful ratification vote.
We will monitor the work of the University Task Force negotiated in the 2007-2011 contract and will continue the two-track effort of working as a union and in collegial fashion with the University Senate. Join the NTT Caucus and work with us to improvement your working conditions. If you are a tenure-track or tenured professor, educate yourself on the issues related to non-tenture track faculty and ask how you can help.
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President McCormick accepts University Senate recommendations to extend NTT rights
In a letter dated February 12, 2007, President Richard McCormick responded to the University Senate's recommendations on the status of full-time non-tenure track faculty. Click here to read McCormick's letter.
McCormick accepted all the recommendations and stated his agreement with the recommendation that the Board of Governors abolish the restriction to three successive reappointments (the so-called 4-year rule).
These changes were long overdue and Rutgers AAUP-AFT applauds President McCormick for approving the University Senate's recommendations. We applaud the Faculty Affairs and Personnel Committee of the University Senate for their efforts in improving the working conditions of non-tenure track faculty.
The changes include the following:
• The abolition of the four year limit on appointments for NTT instructors was passed by the Board of Governors on February 9, 2007. Click here to read the BOG's resolution.
• The administration accepts the recommendation that all NTT faculty be made eligible to apply for internal Rutgers grants and external grants
• The administration accepts the recommendation that all NTT faculty are eligible for optional multi-year contracts.
• The Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs has reminded all academic units that NTT faculty members are eligible for merit (FASIP) increases.
• The administration will reexamine the notification system in light of the Senate's recommendation that academic units need to observe reappointment deadlines and inform faculty members of their benefits.
NOTE: All NTT faculty who have calendar year appointments have the right to a one-month vacation. This benefit is in Article XXII (B), "Conditions of Employment." The relevant text reads:
XXII (B). Calendar Year Appointments
Appointment for the calendar year (July 1-June 30) requires that the appointee be in attendance at the University for the entire year unless excused by the appropriate academic officer, with the exception of a vacation of one month.
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Schuster and Finkelstein’s Research on Contingency, "On the Brink"
Read a summary of Schuster and Finkelstein's research entitled “On the Brink: Assessing the Status of the American Faculty,” which appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of Thought and Action, the National Education Association Higher Education Journal.
Professors Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein have released the empirical findings of their decade-long study of national trends in the American academy. Staffing patterns for post-secondary faculty are indeed in a long-term shift towards contingency. This restructuring of the American professoriate means that we are now “On the Brink” of replacing a tenured faculty who have due process, a role in governance, and academic freedom with a contingent faculty lacking these clear protections. Schuster and Finkelstein conclude that the American faculty is being treated as mere “managed” professionals. For example, “nearly two in five of all full-time instructional staff now hold term-limited appointments subject to removal.” Plus, part time hiring is increasing. Diminished commitment to professional standards by academic managers means that non-tenure track and part time faculty have to spend too much of their valuable time looking for the next appointment, applying for visas, or teaching several classes at various institutions to patch together smaller jobs to approximate a livable salary.
The time-tested triad of teaching-research-service is being “unbundled.” Schuster and Finkelstein argue that instructional NTT and PT lecturers are on a de-facto separate career track from those on tenure track. This new division of labor (one part of the transformation of higher education) threatens to overshadow educational and research goals undertaken for the common good. Schuster and Finkelstein encourage faculty to study trends in their own institutions to track and respond to specific local changes.
Click here to visit NEA's publication page.
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For more information about issues related to Non-tenure track faculty, please read the articles below:
For upcoming meetings of the NTT Caucus please see our Event Calendar or contact Rich Moser at rmoser@rutgersaaup.org or (732) 445-2278 x 18
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