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August 29, 2003 TO: LIUFF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FR: Jordan Kaplan RE: Enhancements to the University's final contract offer On August 27 and August 28 respectively, I engaged in substantive negotiations with George Sutton. Our discussions have been both frank and open. Our discussions and subsequent agreement focused on the charge I received from the Executive committee at our meeting of August 19 and August 27 respectively. While I am disappointed in the fact that we were not able to achieve all our goals and objectives, I feel that these supplemental negotiations have addressed many of our concerns and therefore represent an improvement over the university's last offer. The following represents a summary of the results of those negotiations: SALARY: -Full-Time Faculty:
*Does not include
the 2% salary adjustment implemented on August 31, 2003 . -Adjunct Faculty: Adjunct/overload
rate will increase by 4% annually. The University agrees to pay the sum of $20,000 per year for three years. Monies will be provided for the sole benefit of the adjunct faculty at the Brooklyn Campus. The LIUFF will develop a plan to distribute payments. Such plan will be subject to review by University counsel; the purpose of this review is to insure compliance with federal and state laws only. BENEFITS: All current unit
members shall have their current medical coverage grandfathered as long
as they are employed by Long Island University. OPTION B: New faculty pay 30% of total cost of medical coverage.
The University and the LIUFF agree to form a joint committee to investigate and recommend alternatives to Options (A) and (B) that would yield comparable savings, and at the same time may reduce or even eliminate the need for faculty starting after September 2004 to pay for benefits. Suggested alternatives may include, but are not limited to: (1) limiting the number of medical plans offered to faculty who begin their employment on or after September 2004, (2) re-engineering one or more of the medical plans that are currently offered, and/or (3) developing one or more new medical plans to be offered to faculty who begin their employment on or after September 2004. The joint committee has until June 30, 2004 to present their recommendations. WORKLOAD: Effective September 2004, workload for continuing and new faculty is permanently reduced to 21 credits per academic year. In conjunction with this reduction, all restrictions on outside activities, as well as restrictions on overloads are eliminated. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RELEASE TIME: University agrees that the absolute minimum of hours for research and development release time for the 2004-2005 academic year will be 227 credit hours. University agrees to increase the minimum number of hours available each academic year for research and development release time by at least 4 % annually. Faculty applications for research and development release time will follow procedures currently used for sabbaticals. The Research and Development Committee will work with faculty whose applications for research and development release time are rejected to correct deficiencies. An appeals committee, comprised of administrators and faculty with faculty constituting a clear majority, will be constituted to address differences of opinion and disagreements between the Research and Development Committee and the faculty. University agrees
to advise faculty who are awarded research and development release time
will be notified no later than June 30, 2004; June 30 2005; and June
2006 respectively.
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