"Faculty salaries are dropping to the point that it's hard to call teaching at CSU a middle-class profession," faculty association President Lillian Taiz, said during a media call.
Queen's recently negotiated a Spousal Partner arrangement with its faculty association that offers an attractive package to academic couples.
However, while the report on which the decision to sack Galloway was based has not been made public, the UBC faculty association issued a statement "to clarify that all but one of the allegations, including the most serious allegation … were not substantiated".
Like any former faculty member, Mr Galloway has the right to challenge the university's decision and the faculty association has filed a grievance and arranged for senior legal counsel".
"After years of wage stagnation that has so many of our faculty falling out of the middle class, 2% is simply not sustainable," said faculty association President Jennifer Eagan, a professor at Cal State East Bay.
On Wednesday, the University of Lethbridge and the school's faculty association said in a joint statement provided to VICE, that they "have agreed that the outstanding issues that have been raised concerning Dr. Anthony Hall will be addressed in the context of the Faculty Handbook".
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Abood, the faculty association in Lehnert entered into an agency shop arrangement with Ferris State College in Michigan whereby nonunion faculty were required to pay a service fee equal to union dues.
The campus's faculty association, which is not represented by a union, objected via e-mail messages to the firing of four deans who were told to leave the same day they told they no longer had jobs, according to Ms. Feroe, the interim college president.
Video of the incident was circulated widely on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter on Saturday, and the university's faculty association called on Katehi to resign, saying in a letter there had been a "gross failure of leadership".
It is definitely in your best interest to have as detailed a working contract as possible with the university and to seek advice from your faculty association or legal counsel.
