BY MARTIN KICH This open letter was posted on the faculty listserve at Wright State by Julie L. Williams, Psy.D., ABPP, a Professor and Board Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist in the Wright State University-School of Professional Psychology. She has given permission to re-post it. Good afternoon…. For the past 3 weeks, I have read the strike-related email threads,…
BY MARTIN KICH On Friday, February 8, more than 75 Wright State AAUP members, members of Students4Faculty, and allies gathered first at the Ohio Statehouse and then at the Ohio Department of Higher Education to bring the causes of the three-week-long faculty strike directly to the attention of lawmakers. At the Statehouse, Faculty Senate President…
BY HANK REICHMAN Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are painfully familiar with the widespread and baneful trend of converting teaching positions into contingent non-tenure-track, often part-time, “adjunct” jobs. But some may not realize that a similar trend on the research side, especially in the physical and natural sciences, has emerged through the abuse…
BY MARTIN KICH Board of Trustees Wright State University 282 University Hall Dayton, Ohio 45435 February 8, 2019 Dear Trustees, We write in support of the Wright State University faculty who are exercising their ability to collectively bargain to protect the fair wages and benefits of workers. We all have a shared interest in…
BY MARTIN KICH Board of Trustees Wright State University 282 University Hall Dayton, Ohio 45435 Feb. 6, 2019 Dear Trustees, As members of the Ohio House of Representatives Democratic Caucus, we write in support of Wright State University (WSU) faculty and the Ohio Conference of American Association of University Professors as they work to…
BY LESLIE MARSH Guest blogger Leslie Marsh is an undergraduate in her senior year at Wright State University (WSU). Below is her response to a letter from Alpana Sharma, chair of the English languages and literature department, notifying her about the conversion of her full-semester course to a compressed seven-week course due to the ongoing…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH AAUP Members at Wright State’s Lake Campus (which looks as if it is located somewhere north of the Arctic Circle) Please sign our petition of support and distribute it to your contact lists and over your social media accounts: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-wright-state-faculty. Please visit our social media accounts and express your support…
BY RUDY FICHTENBAUM It has been an incredible week at Wright State University. The weather has been terrible (temperatures in the single digits followed by snow and freezing rain).But everyday this week, hundreds of faculty have been on the picket line from 8am to 6pm at the four main entrances to the campus. Our faculty…
BY PAMELA A. SCHULZE Pamela A. Schulze, president of the Akron AAUP chapter, submitted the following open letter in support of the faculty at Wright State University, who are striking for quality higher education. I am writing this letter as President of the University of Akron Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which…
BY HANK REICHMAN In the wake of last year’s exciting wave of teacher strikes that began in West Virginia and quickly spread to Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Colorado — states where public employees lack collective bargaining rights, unions are weak, and voters supported Donald Trump — the current strike by teachers in Los…