These items are excerpted from the Administration’s counter-offer to the Faculty Association Dec. 16. The entire text is on http://www.siuc-faculty-assoc.org. My notes are in brackets.

1. Page 7:The Board (of Trustees) retains all rights over all activities of the University, including administrative control of personnel, educational policies, elimination of programs, class size, curriculum, budgetary allocation, discipline of employees. [No provisions for faculty involvement.]

2. Page 14:The board may employ faculty on 11-month contracts, with 100 percent teaching load of 4-4-2, with maximum release time of 30 percent for research and 20 percent service. [No 2-2 loads for research faculty; directors have annual maximum of 2 courses remission.]

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3. Page 16:Office hours will not be less than a faculty’s contact hours. [A 3-3 load requires 9 office hours per week.]

4. Page 17:Administration may lay off tenured and non-tenured faculty, based on a University decision to curtail or discontinue a program, financial considerations, or other legitimate considerations. [No good-faith effort to employ displaced faculty; administration determines legitimate consideration.]

5. Page 19:Tenured faculty may be discharged for cause [unspecified.]

6. Page 21:Promotion and tenure are not subject to grievance and arbitration procedures set forth in counter-offer.

7. Page 22:1998 salary increase 3 percent, allocated by merit.

8. Pages 25 and 26:Sabbaticals no longer an entitlement.

9. Page 27:Faculty engaging in employment elsewhere (including self-employment) on a leave of absence may be immediately terminated by the board.

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10. Page 28:Faculty may not engage in outside employment, including self-employment [i.e. consulting?], without advance permission from the provost.

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