On Tuesday morning, faculty at the Wright State University — Lake Campus bundled up as they stood at the entrance to the driveway for the campus with signs as they — along with faculty at the main campus in Dayton — began to strike for a renegotiation of their contracts with the university.
“One of the things that the administration is demanding is total control over faculty workload which means they want the right to dictate the faculty’s classes, to teach more classes,” said Steven Pedler, a professor of history and political science at the Lake Campus. “That’s going to have negative consequences for students because if we have to take on additional classes, that means we’ll all be responsible for more students [and] that means there's less opportunity for one-on-one instruction then we have right now.”
On Jan. 7, a strike notice was filed by American Association of Union Professors — Wright State University (AAUP — WSU) to the Ohio State Employment Relations Board for the final contract for union employees — voted on Jan. 4 — which moved the faculty to a “uniform” health care plan, maintaining current rules of retrenchment which includes no pay raises for faculty and allowing for them to be furloughed. Many teachers at the Lake Campus worry about the long- and short-term implications this contract will have on...
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