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Would you support your professors in a strike, even if it meant when your classes do start up your have less time to complete the same amount of work?
Sure I would, but I would be a bit upset at the time constraint	2 (40%)
Sure I would, they deserve fair treatment from the administration	1 (20%)
No I would not, but I would not take sides	2 (40%)
No I would not, I would be in favor of the administration and would want them to fix this immediately	0 (0%)
Total Votes: 5

Support your professors?
Topic Started: Sep 4 2009, 08:57 PM (109 Views)
PlayxDohxMentality	Sep 4 2009, 08:57 PM Post #1
NIN Fangirl Extrodinare Posts: 1,081 Group: Co-Administrator Member #449 Joined: May 18, 2006 Gender Female Mood Excited Browser Firefox Blog Please insert the title of your blog	So, the professors at my University who are members of the AAUP (American Association of University Professors) are undergoing a strike (or a "work stoppage" as it is being called) due to the administration denying them some of their requests on their contracts. Contracts were supposed to be renewed by the 3rd, and a negotiation was not reached. The AAUP is stating that the university unfairly upped the salary of the president of the university while neglecting to raise their salaries, as well as proposing drastic increases in the cost of health care and taking away tenure opportunities for non full time professors. The university is claiming that they do not have the money to meet any or all of these demands. However, tuition was upped for the fall semester, so there is extra cash sitting in the university right now. Also, several deans were hired for a medical school at the university, but students are not being admitted into the program, so the deans are being payed for overseeing a school that isn't currently open. The university also wants to take material that the professors teach (their lectures and such) and take ownership of them, so that if a professor is terminated (remember that no tenure thing I said up there?), their lectures and notes and lesson plans may be passed along to new faculty. Now, classes were to start September 3rd, but with the strike they have been canceled until further notice, with the state mediating negotiations currently. The university has promised a "full semesters worth of instruction" to the students. Some have said that this may very well mean that students will have the same requirements for their courses with less time to meet them. The university hasn't specified how they will give the full semesters worth of instruction, so it could mean that scenario, or even the semester being extended up until almost Christmas, depending on how much time elapses during the strike. So, what do you guys think? I personally am all for the AAUP. If I have a little more crunch time this semester, but they get a bit more of fair treatment as a result of this, than I will walk away after the semester feeling better about attending this university. This is my first semester at this university, and this makes me have bitter feelings towards the administration. At the community college I previously attended, non full time faculty was underpaid, had no health benefits, and weren't screened by the deans (so whatever they decided to teach us was pretty much up to them, no matter how much or how little it had to due with the course, and no matter how much of what they tested us on was their personal opinion or honest fact). This kind of treatment of people who have graduate degrees is rather demeaning to me, and I think they deserve more respect and more compensation for their time, research, and efforts in bettering their students.



musicfanatic2071	Sep 5 2009, 08:28 PM Post #2
Silver Member Posts: 1,717 Group: Member Member #169 Joined: March 4, 2005	Personally I'm not one to pick sides on such debates. If I'm not specifically involved I will not choose a side or support anybody. They are adults they can figure things out on their own



StEC	Sep 7 2009, 10:10 PM Post #3
Gender Hudini Admin Posts: 16,574 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: August 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Sick Browser Firefox Blog StEC's Blog!	Hmmm it's hard for me to have a hard opinion on the matter but I would assume they are fighting for something important to them so I would support the professors but I would be pissed off at time constraints when it comes to them getting back to work, I would expect some allowances given to students for lost time in some form or another.
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dfxshadow	Sep 10 2009, 12:01 PM Post #4
Silver Member Posts: 1,861 Group: Retired Staff Member #54 Joined: September 19, 2004	I'm all for teachers getting more money, better benefits. But at the same time. They have a responsibility to teach. If they are neglecting that responsibility they are IMO, not helping anything. If the school is unable/unwilling to give them what they want. They will either need to compromise, or seek a school that will. So, its really hard to pick a side in these debates. On the other hand. The school needs to either meet the demands, propose a compromise, or replace them with someone willing to work under the current conditions. They have a responsibility to the students to provide an education. So until they can come to an agreement, they are only hurting the students. The ones who pay both sides paychecks. Edited by dfxshadow, Sep 10 2009, 12:02 PM.
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