Wright State University settled almost $2 million with the U.S. Department of education going back to a 2015 incident regarding federal student financial aid. An audit revealed the agreement happened in the beginning of November and regarded the school years from 2013 to 2015 when the university could not show appropriate dispersal of federal funds. […]
Last week, an overwhelming majority of teaching faculty who are a part of the Wright State chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have signed onto a pledge to reject any contracts they determine to be unfair to WSU faculty. More than 82 percent of members signed the pledge, according according to a […]
Recently Wright State’s Board of Trustees proposed a six percent increase to the upcoming 2018 freshmen class both in state and out of state students. That would mean a $262 increase, according to a Dayton Daily News article. The new tuition lock, known as the “Wright Guarantee” program, would stay locked for four years. The […]
Last week, the Wright State Communications department released an email statement regarding the university’s latest budget remediation efforts. The email insinuates that the university still has a chance to avoid fiscal watch, assuming that it meets its goals. The email, written by Walt Branson, Vice President for Finance and Operations, compared the university’s actual expenditures […]
University administration plans on looking at the possibility of reducing faculty pay and benefits as well as increasing teaching workloads, according to an online statement from Adrian Corbett, Chief Negotiator of the Wright State chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-WSU). As it currently stands, there is no official proposal for the next […]
