Nuts & Bolts: Calendar of events, NTT Promotion Workshop, FSU Spring Elections, Librarian promotions, NTT additional work and MTA benefits
12/16/2024
FSU Calendar December 16th to December 20th
NTT Promotion Workshop: Tuesday, December 17th 12:00-1:00PM
Materials for those applying for Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer II and Senior Lecturer III are due on January 26, 2025. The workshop will review what needs to be submitted and the promotion process.
Join us (contact FSU or Caroline Coscia for Zoom information). The session will be recorded.
Dear Members,
This is the last Nuts & Bolts of the semester. Although you will not receive another Nuts & Bolts until January 27, 2025, the FSU works all year. During winter break the FSU is here to answer any questions or concerns you may have, albeit a few days off in the next couple of weeks.
NTT Promotion Workshop: Tuesday, December 17th 12:00-1:00PM
Note: to be eligible to submit promotion materials, you had to have notified your department chair in May 2024 of your intent to file for promotion. Article 21.12.3 states: Timing: The candidate should declare their intention to stand for promotion in May preceding the spring in which the promotion review will take place (see Academic Master Calendar for each year’s specific deadline).
FSU Executive Committee Annual Elections Spring 2025
FSU’s annual elections begin late January with a nomination period. Executive Committee positions are staggered with half of each constituency’s (i.e. TT, NTT) up for election each spring. This coming spring the following positions will be on the ballot: Vice President, two TT representatives, one pre-tenured representative and two Non-Tenured Track representatives.
Watch for Elections Committee communications with details.
Librarian: Promotion or Continuing Appointment Deadline
January 21, 2025, is the deadline for librarians to submit to their supervisor materials for promotion and/or continuing appointment.
Know your Contract: Additional Work for Part-Time NTTs
Part-time members of a department must be offered additional work in writing in order of seniority before the work is given to anyone outside of the department (see Article 21.3 of the contract for more information). Please note that additional work is defined as work that is generated after all of the work for those bargaining unit members already employed in the department has been assigned. An example: department X has 10 NTTs who have been assigned a total of 20 courses for Spring 2025. A last-minute increase in student enrollments results in 2 additional sections being added. Those 2 additional sections must be offered to current part-time NTT in order of seniority before they can be given to anyone outside of the department. It is important to remember that the additional work clause is not a bumping clause- it does not allow part-time members of a department to get additional work via reduction in work from other members of the department, even if the former has more seniority than the latter.
Take Action: Urge Senators to Pass the Social Security Fairness Act
Senate Majority Leader Schumer has announced the Senate will begin debate Monday evening on the Social Security Fairness Act. It is imperative that all 62 Senator co-sponsors vote to pass this act and fix this forty-year-old injustice.
Please do remind our senators to vote to repeal the WEP and GPO. The MTA has made this easy. All you need to do is go to the MTA website and click on the Contact Your Senators Immediately link.
MTA benefits: Winter Break Activities
Looking for something to do in January? Get discounted tickets too? Then check out MTA Benefits for the Boston Garden (Harlem Globetrotters and Women’s Beanpot), the Providence Bruins at Amica Mutual Pavilion, or ski at Pat’s Peak, Henniker NH.
On behalf of Vice President Sana Haroon, Senior Staff Lorenzo Nencioli, MTA representative Maria Hegbloom and the whole FSU Executive Committee, we wish you a happy and enjoyable holiday season. Do take time to relax and maybe use your MTA membership benefit discounts for some fun activities.
Sincerely,
Caroline Coscia
FSU President
Senior Lecturer II
Political Science Department