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New Paltz Faculty and Students Protest During Campus Visit by SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher

May 10, 2013 / brownp / No comments

Student activists, union organizers, confront SUNY chancellor in New Paltz
Mid-Hudson News

NEW PALTZ – SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher was confronted with tough questions about faculty wages and racial relations, during a visit Thursday afternoon to the campus of New Paltz College.

Organizers from United University Professions – joined by student activists – politely crashed the faculty meeting where Zimpher was speaking, demanding justice with ongoing contract negotiations.

Dozens of protesters holding placards in back demanded a raise in adjunct salaries from an average $3,000 to $5,000 per class taught. There is no minimum per class compensation for adjuncts in New York.

Find out more here: http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2013/May/10/Zimpher_SNP-10May13.html

Retired SUNY New Paltz German Professor Peter Brown (left) and administrator Richard Kelder (right) stand outside and protest with fellow faculty members and students infront of the room before a faculty meeting was held. SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher took time to answer questions during the meeting at the SUNY New Paltz campus in New Paltz on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Photo By: Kelly Marsh for the Times Herald-Record

Photo By: Kelly Marsh for the Times Herald-Record

Faculty pay puts SUNY leader on the spot
By Jeremiah Horrigan
Times Herald-Record

NEW PALTZ — As college protests go, this one was pretty polite — by design.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher was scheduled to address the faculty Thursday morning, and some of the faculty were intent on addressing her with questions about pay levels for adjuncts and contingent teachers.

When it was all over, protest organizer and union chapter President Peter Brown declared the protest a success on one hand and a surprise on the other.

“We got the message across that adjuncts and contingent faculty are the lowest-paid people on campus, despite their keeping the educational enterprise going.”

Find more here: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130510/NEWS/305100369

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“Mayday $5K!” New Paltz Student- Labor Coalition Rally Celebrates International Workers’ Day

April 15, 2013 / brownp / No comments

Photo by Roberto LoBianco

Photo by Roberto LoBianco

The Student-Labor Coalition at SUNY New Paltz organized a rally in celebration of International Workers’ Day, recognizing the important contributions of all workers at SUNY New Paltz. The event took place at noon on May 1 on the SUNY New Paltz academic concourse in front of the Humanities Building. Details of the $5K campaign are outlined in the Mayday Manifesto, and the Facebook event will constantly update with more info on the rally.

For more than a century, May Day has been a celebration of the international labor movement and is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. The New Paltz rally focused on issues of concern to faculty, staff and students at the college. This event was sponsored by a broad coalition of unions and student groups, including the New Paltz chapter of United University Professions (UUP), CSEA, The Student Association, New York Students Rising (NYSR), Black Student Union (BSU), the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Students for Justice in Palestine, the Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter and Amnesty International, among others.
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Higher Education Panel: Challenges Facing Students, Labor, and the Public Education System

November 29, 2012 / brownp / No comments

This NYPIRG-hosted event focuses on the close interaction between student and labor needs in the public education system.

The panel will examine some of the most pressing issues facing students, explore the connection between labor and education, and empower students to take action. With its dynamic student and faculty panel, featuring Brian Obach, Chair of the Sociology Department, and Peter D.G. Brown, UUP Chapter President, the discussion will raise awareness of the close interaction between student and labor needs, enabling students to assume greater responsibility for their quality higher education.

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How Universities Treat Adjuncts Limits their Effectiveness in the Classroom, Report Says

August 27, 2012 / brownp / No comments

Days after the passing of UUP member Stephen Street, the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education releases a report on a survey of contingent faculty. Street was the report’s lead author:

Colleges that want to set the stage for their students to succeed should stop hiring adjunct professors at the last minute and then denying those instructors access to the technology and resources they need to teach effectively, a new report suggests.

“The ‘just in time’ staffing model is unjust for faculty and for students and clearly compromises education quality,” says the 26-page policy report from the Center for the Future of Higher Education, a virtual think tank of the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education.

Reprinted with permission of UUP. Full story available at:
http://chronicle.com/article/Adjuncts-Working-Conditions/133918

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