COHE Members News
February 4, 2011
 
Greetings!

Thank you for your membership, dues, and support during this bargaining period.  I appreciate your comments, information, and rapid responses to my requests.

Bargaining News for COHE Members
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I wanted to provide you with some additional information beyond the general outline I provide to all faculty in the other message. 

   

We have moved to a single document that contains all proposals from both sides.  Please click here to open the new consolidated set of proposals.
 

 

As I indicated in the all-faculty newsletter, we have a large set of complex proposals from both sides,  We agreed there are six areas of proposals:  

  • Compensation.  COHE proposals on inflationary adjustment, minimum of Oklahoma market study, and no salary cuts
  • Shared Governance. COHE proposals to endorse 1940 AACU/AAUP Statement and 1959 AAUP Statement.
  • Grievance / Dispute Resolution Procedures. Both sides have offered proposals here.  They claim their proposals merely make clear how things should work.  We are advocating for more faculty rights and peer review.
  • Ranks.  BOR Proposals to create a series of Lecturer and Librarian ranks separate from the "Professiorate."
  • Intellectual Property / Consulting and Outside Employment.   BOR proposals to remove IP from bargaining, except over division of royalties, and further restrictions on consulting.
  • "Clean Up" Language.   BOR proposals on notices, offices, digitized communication.  Our proposal on working files.

The few items we tentatively agreed to were truly non-controversial and did not include any of the items mentioned above.  We have major chasms on the IP, Grievances, and Compensation issues.   We will offer counter-proposals to their Ranks proposals, which will protect and strengthen the rights of lecturers and librarians.

 

Finally, both Jack Warner and I received a letter from the AAUP chapter at SDSU with an interesting suggestion to adopt academic freedom language that exists in the University of Minnesota collective bargaining agreement.  Here is the letter. We entered that suggestion as an additional proposal from our side.

 

Willing to Serve?
Tennis Serve


 

We have several opportunities to serve COHE.

 

Attend our state or national Representative Assembly (RA), the general meeting, which makes policy for our organization.  If you are interested in attending either, please contact Gary Aguiar before March 15, 2011.

 

April 8 - 9, 2011, SDEA RA, Pierre

July 1 - 6, 2011, NEA RA, Chicago

 

Later this spring, we will hold elections for three statewide COHE positions: President, Vice President, and Secretary.  The first two offices have two-year terms.  The member elected as secretary will serve one year to complete the second year of an unfilled position. 
 
 

Each campus chapter may nominate one person for each eligible office. The name and information about nominees must be sent to the COHE Board of Directors prior to March 15.
 

We will also elect a COHE Representative to SDEA Board of Directors.  This is a two-year term.  If you are interested, please notify SDEA President Sandy Arsenault by February 15.

Thanks for reading these newsletters!

Your brother in defense of faculty rights,
Gary Aguiar
South Dakota Council of Higher Education
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Future Bargaining Sessions

The COHE Board invites any dues-paying COHE members to attend  a bargaining session.If you are interested, please contact Gary Aguiar at least two weeks prior to the date.


Feb. 12 (Sat) Pierre

 

Mar 15 (Tues)  Oacoma

 

April 9 (Sat) Pierre


May 5 (Thurs) Pierre