Academy for Academic Personnel Administration

Fall 2003

Round Table Report

 

1.  Institution Information

 

Name of Institution/System:      Rider University   

 

Name of Individual Responding:      Dr. Jim Castagnera

 

Title of Individual Responding:      Associate Provost

 

2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition

250 full-time

100 part-time

 

Faculty

Professional Librarians

Professional Athletic Staff

     

 

 

 

 

Bargaining Agent:      AAUP

 

Date of First Contract:  1973     

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  10

 

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3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):

 

     2002-2007 Agreement entered October 1, 2002, effective back to September 1, 2002, until Sept. 1, 2007.

 

 

 

4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)

 

     New University President, August 15, 2003.  First president hired from outside the University since 1968.

 

 

 

 

5.  Special happenings related to fiscal issues (e.g., salary reductions, health and dental insurance costs, reductions in force, early retirement programs, program consolidation or elimination, etc.):

 

     New group health insurance plan, negotiated in summer 2002, effective January 1, 2004.