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As you may know, the current TAUP contract, which now expires October 15, 2019, includes a side letter which commits Temple’s administration to respond to proposals on tuition benefits at other universities put forth jointly by the Faculty Senate and TAUP. This benefit would be of great value to our members and to Temple in recruiting and retaining talented faculty, librarians, and academic professionals. So we are assembling a new committee to continue the work that was done in 2015, which included an inquiry into Tuition Exchange and other potential models and a discussion on how to survey members.
If you’re interested in serving on the committee, here’s what to expect:
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The Committee will meet once a month for 60-90 minutes, perhaps more frequently if necessary; but we are more likely to do our work individually and in small groups.
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Members will be expected to do research and engage in productive conversations on the particular elements of the proposal that interest them most.
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The Committee will formulate and distribute a survey by the end of January and analyze the results by the end of February.
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The Committee will put forth proposals to the Administration by the end of the Spring 2018 semester.
If you are interested in participating and are a dues-paying member of TAUP, please contact Steve Newman, President of TAUP (stevenewman1970@gmail.com); if you are interested but aren’t a dues-paying member, please contact Michael Sachs, President of the Faculty Senate (msachs@temple.edu).
