Last Monday, administration and the faculty union received a report from a Fact Finder, an independent third party tasked with reviewing unresolved issues in contract negotiations between the two parties. The report showed that the Fact Finder sided with the administration’s proposals on the majority of issues. Following its release, both administration and the faculty […]
On Monday, Oct. 29 the Fact Finder, an impartial third party reviewing all unresolved issues – including retrenchment, workload, healthcare, furloughs, summer teaching rights and raises released their report. The report showed out of these articles, six were in favor of the administration’s proposals and one was in favor of the American Association of University […]
At Friday’s Board of Trustees Business and Finance meeting, administrators revealed that they have not drafted a plan for long-term budget planning. Chief Business Officer Walt Branson and Interim Associate President in the Controller’s Office John Shipley gave a presentation to the board, in which they said they are “fairly confident” that Wright State […]
Hundreds of faculty members took to the Board of Trustees meeting last Friday to protest a contract proposal offered by university administration. Members of the Wright State chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-WSU), Wright State’s faculty union, have been negotiating a new contract with university administration since January 2017. Negotiations came to […]
On Tuesday morning, Walt Branson, Wright State’s vice president finance and operations and chief business officer, sent out a communication email to the campus community to update the current financial situation. “First the good news. We finished FY18 with a $10 million operating surplus. This is the first operating surplus that Wright State has […]
