Academy for Academic Personnel Administration

Fall 2003

Round Table Report

 

1.  Institution Information

 

Name of Institution/System: The University of Scranton  

 

Name of Individual Responding: Abigail Byman

 

Title of Individual Responding: General Counsel and University Secretary

 

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

 

Full-time faculty including department chairpersons and librarians – 250 members out of 253 full-time faculty.

 

 

 

 

Bargaining Agent: Faculty Affairs Council – Affiliated with AAUP

 

Date of First Contract:  1975

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  Approximately 10

 

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

 

2003-2006 contract was negotiated and tentative settlement reached at the end of May, too late for a faculty vote.  Both sides will meet in late August, with a faculty vote to follow hopefully shortly thereafter.

 

 

 

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

 

While the University did not take advantage of the Great Falls case a year ago, it is still out there, and our new President may eventually reach a different conclusion.  It was not invoked last year because of fears of litigation expenses and campus and community disruption.

 

 

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.):

 

Large raises were avoided, as were large increases in health care costs to faculty.  The early retirement program proposed by the faculty was unaffordable and rejected.  Both sides presented workload proposals, and a significant compromise was reached.  Most importantly from the administration’s perspective, there is a step toward faculty accountability, in that there is a form of post-tenure review every three years for each faculty member in the tentative agreement.

 

 

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