What You Can Do:
- Click here and fill out this form if you can attend the Wednesday, May 1, grade-in outside SAS Executive Dean Juli Wade’s office from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.—or if you plan to attend the virtual SAS all-faculty meeting starting at 10 a.m.
- Click here to send emails to President Holloway and Chancellor Conway asking for a restoration of course offerings and class size caps in the Writing Program.
Dear colleague,
Unless we mobilize and challenge them, the administration’s plans for Fall semester will make teaching conditions worse—for those still teaching!—and damage our academic mission and our students’ opportunities for success.
We’ve received reports of adjunct lecturers losing classes in successful, even essential, programs, leaving the faculty and grad workers who remain to bear the burden of larger classes as class size caps are increased across the university. As we’ve written before, the New Brunswick Writing Program is facing the biggest cuts that we know of—as many as 37 lecturers are losing their jobs this fall. But we know the Writing Program isn’t an isolated case.
We’re making next Wednesday, May 1, a day of protest on the New Brunswick campus to push back against the administration’s systematic attempts to undermine our contract victories won last spring. Click here to fill out this form if you can attend these two events:
- Join your Writing Program colleagues at a “Wade-In Grade-In” outside SAS Executive Dean Juli Wade’s office at 77 Hamilton St. (just off College Avenue) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Make your labor visible: bring your work to grade and wear your union t-shirt!
- If you’re in SAS, please attend the virtual all-faculty meeting with Dean Wade (whether or not you’re a voting member) starting at 10 a.m. Our members have forced a discussion of the cuts in the Writing Program and elsewhere onto the agenda, so this is another chance to raise our voices. If you’re at the grade-in, we plan to Zoom in together from in front of Wade’s office!
You can support your Writing Program colleagues before and after Wednesday:
- If you haven’t already, send emails to President Holloway and Chancellor Conway asking for a restoration of course offerings and class size caps. Talk to your colleagues and friends about the cuts and share this link with them: rutgersaaup.org/StopWPCuts.
- If you’re going to Rutgers Day this Saturday, April 27, stop by Murray Hall on Voorhees Mall between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., where Writing Program faculty will be talking to prospective students and their parents about why the program cuts will harm their education.
- To learn the facts about the cuts, click here to see a letter from Provost Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke, which Writing Program faculty members “graded” to correct its misinformation.
In solidarity,
Rutgers AAUP-AFT and Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union
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