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Faculty Senate Report on University Welfare

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Faculty Senate Report on University Welfare

Report on University Welfare for Faculty Senate, September 19th, 2012 By Professor Jack Fiorito, Senator and UFF-FSU President Good afternoon!  In view of the late hour and that we have already had a report on collective bargaining from President Barron, I will try to be brief. Collective Bargaining As President Barron suggested, budget cuts and […]

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Bargaining Update – Promotion Increases Delayed?

Today, your UFF-FSU bargaining team offered to immediately sign off on promotion increases of 12% for promotion to Associate and 15% for promotion to Full. Unfortunately, negotiations stalled because of the Administration’s insistence on linking promotion increases (the amounts of which are not in dispute) to Administrative Discretionary Increases (ADIs). We have been informed that

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Faculty Shared Governance

“’Shared governance’ is much revered by faculty, but it adds vastly to administrative costs and stifles innovation and change.  Shared governance is a byproduct of academic tenure, where faculty members with lifetime appointments face little consequence from trying, often successfully, to obstruct changes that might reduce their power or influence or increase their teaching  load.“

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Bargaining News, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, UFF-FSU Administration, Uncategorized

UFF/FSU Presidents Consultation

DRAFT minutes from July 10th’s consultation with President Barron, Provost Stokes, and other administration representatives are now posted at the UFF-FSU web site (www.uff-fsu.org). The URL is: https://uff-fsu.org/art/Mins2012July10Consult-UFFdraft.pdf Charts from the UFF May faculty poll comparing Specialized Faculty (NTTF) and

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Bargaining News, Events, UFF-FSU Administration, Uncategorized

First Friday and Other Upcoming Events

First Friday will be held from 5-7pm on July 6th at Momo’s Brew Pub, 1410 Market Street. As usual, our UFF-FSU Chapter will provide snacks (pizza!). Refreshing beverages will be available, and faculty members from throughout FSU will provide interesting conversation. Please come out and relax with your colleagues and get informal updates on bargaining

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Faculty Address Higher Ed Task Force

Task force gets report on higher ed challenges By BRENT KALLESTAD, Associated Press Published: Monday, June 11, 2012 at 6:29 p.m. Two veteran faculty members cautioned a newly formed task force on Monday against changing the state’s higher education system simply because a businessman – in this case, Gov. Rick Scott – believes it needs

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Florida Legislation, Political Action, Uncategorized

Beyond Wisconsin and Here in Florida

As in our own 2010 Gubernatorial election, yesterday’s Wisconsin recall election results seem to underscore the Perverted Golden Rule: “Those with the gold make the rules.” We can take some cold comfort in knowing that it took a substantial spending advantage to achieve these results. Estimates heard in recent days put the spending advantage for

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Highlights and Comments from the May, 2012 FSU Faculty Poll

An expanded edition of the report on the May, 2012 FSU Faculty Poll is now available at the www.uff-fsu.org web site, or via direct link at: https://uff-fsu.org/art/May2012FacPollResultsAll-Post.pdf This edition includes hundreds of faculty comments that help to clarify and elaborate on the meaning of the quantitative results released last week.  The quantitative results appear in

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