{"id":13929,"date":"2011-08-09T05:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13929"},"modified":"2011-08-09T05:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T12:10:37","slug":"why-i-havent-been-blogging-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13929","title":{"rendered":"Why I Haven’t Been Blogging Much"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you look to the right in the picture below, you can see me holding a sign that says, “Restore full-time faculty lines NOW!” This picture was taken by a NYSUT<\/a> photographer at a rally we held last week to protest the recent policies and decision put into place by our new college president.<\/p>\n

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Among the things we are protesting–and I am quoting here from the article<\/a> on the NYSUT higher education page–are<\/p>\n

The creation of “shadow governing bodies” by the administration that have ignored the academic senate; and the non-renewal of 39 “temporary appointment” faculty who were let go just before their status would have moved into the probationary stage on a track to permanent employment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One specific administrative action that has infuriated faculty was the president’s choice to veto a proposal by a department on campus to require that students entering its major first pass remedial English. I will post more, and in more detail, at a later date about the situation at my college. Things are too much in flux right now for me to say much more than I have said here; but this work is what I have been doing when I would have preferred to be writing. Unless the faculty and our new president reach some kind of understanding–and I really hope we can; there are meetings set between now and the beginning of the semester–the real fight begins on September 1st, when classes start.<\/p>\n

Cross posted.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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