NEW BRUNSWICK – A strike is looming at Rutgers University as faculty members fight for their demands to be met. AAUP-AFT Union members say before they go on strike, they are giving university officials one more chance to meet their demands. They will be addressing the university’s board of governors when the board meets in Newark… Read more »

By Catherine Carrera Rutgers University faculty members and graduate workers who protested on the Newark campus Tuesday had a sharp message to the university’s board of governors: Classes will shut down if they don’t agree on a new contract soon. A strike at the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses before the end of the… Read more »

At the Rutgers Board of Governors meeting tomorrow, which will be held at the Paul Robeson Campus Center in Newark, NJ, the board is expected to conduct business during a picket labeled as “Final Warning: Contract or Strike” by the Rutgers American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT). The faculty union… Read more »

After leaving his village in Colonial America, Rip Van Winkle wandered up into the Catskill Mountains. Fatigued from his climb, he sits down to rest and fell into a long slumber. Rip awoke to a new world 20 years later. The longevity of his sleep has become the most memorable element in Washington Irving’s classic… Read more »

By Colleen Flaherty Rutgers University president Robert L. Barchi on Wednesday pledged $20 million in additional funding for the systemwide Faculty Diversity Hiring Initiative. The current $22 million initiative to hire, mentor and retain professors from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds was set to expire in 2021 but will now continue through 2024. “This extension will enable schools… Read more »

While the Rutgers American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) is recruiting students to join their cause and taking actions that “may potentially culminate in a strike later this month,” University President Robert L. Barchi announced an additional $20 million in strategic funding from his office through 2024, he announced in… Read more »

Soili Smith has limited choices: She can work a $12-an-hour job and fail to pay her bills, risking eviction. Or she can take a higher-paying summer position that requires her to miss the last few weeks of classes and fly thousands of miles to northern British Columbia, where she’ll work 14-hour days in the bush.… Read more »

By Catherine Carrera Rutgers University President Robert Barchi on Wednesday announced he would put an additional $20 million in funding – for a total of $40 million – to support efforts to hire, mentor and retain faculty from diverse backgrounds. The announcement comes after Rutgers’ largest faculty union, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, said one reason it’s ready to strike is… Read more »

By Catherine Carrera While students at Rutgers University are focused on upcoming final exams and commencement, faculty union members are preparing for the possibility of a strike, which would be the first in the university’s history. More than a year of negotiations on a new contract have so far failed to produce an agreement on the union’s proposals for gender… Read more »