With the possibility of a faculty strike raising concerns across the Raider community, staff members and faculty received an email stating all strike related concerns by the media are to be forwarded on to the Office of Communications.
“Your cooperation in complying with this procedure is appreciated and expected,” the campus wide email stated.
Wright State’s Board of Trustees just express its intent to impose a last best offer to the WSU chapter of American Association of University Professors (AAUP). In a meeting on Friday, Jan. 4, the board voted unanimously to implement the terms and conditions of the offer. The next day the faculty union sent a communication email to their members to inform those in the organization they would file a 10 day notice to strike.
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Negotiations between Wright State administration and AAUP-WSU have been stalled for nearly two years. During which, many of the articles have been agreed upon between administration and AAUP-WSU. The trustee’s terms and conditions accept all of the articles that were tentatively agreed upon, according to a press release by Wright State administration.
Since 2016, Wright State has been navigating a financial crisis in which the university was required to address a $30 million structural budget deficit caused by years of un-budgeted and uncontrolled spending that used $130 million in reserves. The financial recovery included three rounds of staff layoffs and sweeping budget controls and cuts across the university. Those efforts have provided some short-term relief to the university’s financial situation according to the administration release.
