Union calls proposed CSCU faculty contract Draconian. State says union is being whiny.
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Shouting their demands for a fair contract, students and faculty from Connecticut State Universities demonstrate outside the Connecticut Board of Regents board room Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, as Board of Regents/CSCU System President Mark E. Ojakian enters the building for a meeting of the regents.Mark Mirko / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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University faculty speak out at Central Connecticut State University. Oct. 21, 2020. New Britain.contributed /Show MoreShow Less
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In-person classes started in September at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Conn.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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If you ve ever driven down White Street in Danbury, you know that traffic is basically always an issue.
Well that s all about to change. The City has received a 2.65 million dollar state grant to begin a complete renovation of the White Street and Locust Avenue intersection.
City Council President, Joe Cavo, explained just what this construction improvement will entail. The city applied to the state for a grant, and we received 100% funding for improvements to the White Street, Locust Avenue intersection. What s going to happen is they are going to make improvements to that intersection, and that will help with the traffic flow by adding turning lanes, a little bit of road widening so you can fit the new turning lanes in.
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Contract negotiations between faculty members and administrations are supposed to happen quietly, out of the public eye. But the faculty union for four state universities in Connecticut says its talks have started out so poorly that it must speak out against the university system’s “draconian” proposals.
A draft contract put forth by the university eliminates procedural protections regarding academic freedom, terminations and retrenchment; faculty ownership of original online course materials and the right to teach them; conference, travel and research funds; universitywide tenure committees; and privacy and grievance policies for personnel files.
The university system also wants to increase teaching loads from 12 credit hours per semester to 15 and pilot changing the academic calendar from two to three terms, with faculty members required to teach for two such terms annually.
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Dr. Paul Vincent Sequeira, 80, of New Britain died Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, at the Hospital of Central Conn.
He was born in Nairobi, Kenya where he served in the 11th Battalion of the King’s African Rifles, and worked for the game department protecting the wildlife. He received a scholarship that allowed him to move to New York to attend Adelphi University. He would transition from a career in biology, to his true passion of education. While working in the New York public schools for over 25 years as a teacher, principal, and superintendent he would earn his doctorate degree in education from Columbia University. After teaching at Western Connecticut State University he moved to Connecticut to serve as the Superintendent of Schools in New Britain, and sixteen years guiding the development of Waterbury public schools. He served on boards of the Hospital of Central Conn., Teikyo Post University, and was a member of the esteemed New Britain Saturday Night Club.