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Good friend of mine is a current LIU student... she is asking me if I heard about the "LIU lockout"? President is not renewing contracts for professors -- so in the fall when she returns to school, she is expecting to have all temp instructors -- not the tenured professors. I am not sure how this affects us as current applicants for next year, or how it affects the PA program directly.

 

If anyone knows more about this, or is a current LIU PA student, it would be really nice if they spoke up about this.

 

My friend expressed that her and basically the entire student body are very displeased with the current situation at LIU and said it doesn't look good. 

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 Classes Start at LIU Brooklyn on September 7—but Faculty Are Locked Out

Amid a contract dispute, the administration barred professors from coming to campus.

We have names for people who fill the jobs of striking union workers: strikebreakers, replacement workers, scabs. But what to call the people who take the jobs of union members who aren’t striking? Certainly not “professor.” Starting September 7, the first day of the fall semester at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, classes will be taught entirely by non-faculty members—not because the faculty are on strike, but because on the Friday before Labor Day the administration officially locked out all 400 members of the Long Island University Faculty Federation (LIUFF), which represents full-time and adjunct faculty.

 

This is the first time that higher-ed faculty have ever been locked out. 

In April, the union and the administration began negotiating a new contract to replace the one set to expire on August 31. Sticking points included cuts to wages for new full-time faculty and adjuncts, the longstanding imbalance in salaries at the Brooklyn campus compared to those at the Post campus on Long Island, and changes to post-tenure review, adjunct teaching hours, and faculty say in class size and online curriculum. Negotiations were still happening in early July when faculty learned the administration had posted notices of job openings for teachers. On August 31, the administration presented its last best offer, which in a letter to faculty it claimed “contains generous increases in salary minima and base wage increases and addresses other areas of concern.” This letter also included the less-than-generous news that faculty were getting locked out, citing the “historical likelihood of a strike.” According to Kevin Pollitt, a labor relations specialist with New York State United Teachers, this is the first time that higher-ed faculty have ever been locked out.

 

The humor seems to be lost on the students. Thirty-one-year-old Bryan Sorak, a student in the master’s of education program, learned via an administrative e-mail that someone he didn’t know would be taking the place of the professor he had chosen to oversee his thesis project during his final semester. “That’s troubling to me because it means they’ve been planning this. I used to work for the New York City Department of Education, and they had worked for three years without a contract. When I saw they were going to lock out the teachers the minute after the contract expired, I was bothered by that.”

 

On September 6, the day before classes begin, the exiled faculty will gather in a nearby church to vote the new contract up or down. Rosenberg anticipates that the faculty senate will also soon vote on a no-confidence measure—an action that Mutnick says has been brewing since Cline arrived.

 

“I think this administration thinks it doesn’t matter who’s teaching in the classroom,” says Emily Drabinski, the coordinator of library instruction and secretary of LIUFF (full disclosure: Emily is a friend of mine). “I think they think that teaching and learning is about a production of commodities, that it’s about delivering something to students, filling a student with learning that they will then go out and use to make money, and that’s not what higher education is about.”

 

To many students, quality teaching isn’t an abstract principle: It’s what they’re buying, often with loans that will follow them for years. “You expect to get what you’re paying for,” says Hakim Sulaimani, a 22-year-old Brooklyn native majoring in psychology. “You’re paying upwards of 40 grand for a certain level of education and you’re expecting a quality education. I selected certain professors because they’re very passionate and knowledgeable about their subjects. I expect to be taught by the guy I signed up for and not some guy who just popped up two weeks ago.”

 

Halim Nurdin, a 24-year-old history major and Marine Corps veteran from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is skeptical of the administration’s claims that the faculty are demanding more than their share. “I didn’t want to be biased against the administration, but since the new president took over she cut the yellow-ribbon scholarship for veterans, and I have friends who are athletes and coaches and they told me that money is being pulled out of athletics. I think I’ve sent her about 15 e-mails and I’ve gotten no response. I told her how it’s unfair to the students who are paying a high-end price when some of the replacements who are coming in aren’t even qualified to teach their subjects.”

 

Catherine Garibaldi, a 26 year-old student from Suffolk County, already carrying debt from her undergraduate days on the Post campus, is paying over $42,000 for the two-year master’s microbiology program. “It’s extremely disruptive, especially on the graduate level where there’s so much material to cover in a 13-week semester. One of the classes I signed up for is a really tough class, but I know the professor, and I know that she’s going to teach it well.”

 

Full Article, posted yesterday-- I wonder why its not a big deal in the NYT? Are they trying to keep it under wraps?


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I had an interview on September 29th and was accepted on October 3rd...anyone else who interviewed that day hear back yet? 

 

Hello , I see that you've been accepted , congratulations !! I was wondering when you submitted your application and when did you get a confirmation for an interview? 

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