Summary of important changes to the Agreement: Academic Issues, Health Care, Financial

Academic issues

• No changes to the protection of governance processes
• School of Medicine faculty will not be part of the bargaining unit
• Intellectual property language not changed, slight change in reporting to AAUP
• Procedures for review of Workload Policies have been defined
• Participation in online instruction now strictly voluntary
• Number of Full-Time Adjunct faculty increased to 5% of full-time tenure track faculty
  (about 6 more), 3 reserved for SHS, 3 reserved for SON
• Writing and Rhetoric department added to list of academic units and pay groups

Health-care

• Faculty can enroll for BC/BS Standard only through open enrollment of 2011
• Add another, lower-cost option for BC/BS PPO
• HAP remains unchanged
• BCN becomes Healthy Blue Living on 1-1-10
• Priority Health byChoice HMO begins on 1-1-10
• Other eligible adult/dependent children benefits

Financial

• Across-the-board salary adjustments: 2009-10: 0; 2010-11: 1%; 2011-12: 3%
  No merit adjustment for any year
  All distributed as percentage of salary
• Faculty to be docked two days pay when agreement is ratified
  (the Administration refused to put this money into student scholarships)
  Fall 2009 cannot be extended for more than 2 days
• 50-day salary re-opener in 2011-12 by either the Administration or the AAUP
• $10,000/year added to faculty travel and research