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The Negotiating Team received this email from a parent of a Rider student on September 27, 2014. 

Dear Mordechai Rozanski,

I am writing as a parent of a student at Rider University to urge the administration to negotiate in good faith with the faculty at Rider University.  As a parent, I hold the administration solely responsible if there is a strike that interrupts classes.  A Rider University education is not cheap and every day of a stoppage equals hundreds of dollars that we paid for the education of our sons and daughters that is being ripped off by poor university management.  For there to be a strike in the middle of an academic year would demonstrate the utmost in mismanagement and disregard for the interests of the university.

With the millions of dollars parents pay in tuition, we want the highest quality of education for our sons and daughters – your students.  To replace the esteemed faculty of PhD’s with those holding lesser degrees does not add up to the top quality education that we expect for our 10s of thousands we pay in tuition.  We bring our children to Rider *because* of the esteemed and high quality faculty.  We do not want the university classrooms at Rider to be converted to an educational sweat shop.

As parents we also value the importance of the voice of the academics – the professors – in making academic decisions.  Administrators can make the administrative decisions – that makes sense but those who are Rider University – who make up what is great about the university – the academics should have the most say in academic direction.

The threats to reduce benefits and freeze wages will only push out and get the highest caliber of academics to steer clear of Rider University as it will instill a reputation as an academic sweat shop.  That will continue to devalue the kind of education our sons and daughters receive for the highly priced education at Rider.

I urge you to step in and make sure there is NO STRIKE and that the University offer a reasonable package that maintains an attractive place to attract the best academics in the field – not by chump changing on benefits, not by diminishing the credentials of the academic staffing, not by pushing the academics who know best out of the process of determining the academic direction and certainly not by disrupting the education of our sons and daughters by a mid-academic year showdown with the faculty.

I am initiating the Rider Parents and Students Committee for Labor Fairness and we will be watching closely.  We are counting on you to make sure there is no strike and that the faculty gets fairness in the contract settlement.

I am asking other parents and students, who feel the same way to let President Rozanski know how they feel by signing the petition at change.org.

Sincerely,
Bob Witanek

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  • Home
  • About
    • Mission Statement
    • Chapter Meeting Minutes
    • Presentations from AAUP Meetings
    • Meeting Dates 21-22
    • Points of Contact
    • AAUP Officers
    • AAUP Awards >
      • Bertram Mott Award
      • Henry J. Frank Award
    • P&T Committee Members
    • APC Committee Members
    • UAPC Committees
    • Training for College/School Academic Policy Committee Members
    • CIM Training Video
    • Membership
    • Assumption of Risk and Waiver Form for Employees that is required for travel funds
  • Contract
  • Grievances
    • Grievance Process
    • Amendments to Grievance Process, Updated April 2016
    • Grievance Procedure Explained
  • Constitution
    • I - Name
    • II - Purpose
    • III - Membership
    • IV - Dues
    • V - Chapter Officers
    • VI - Committees
    • VII - Election of Officers
    • VIII - Removal of Officers
    • IX - Disciplining of Members
    • X - Meetings
    • XI - Contract Ratification
    • XII - Finance
    • XIII - Amendments
  • Saving WCC
    • Decision on Standing Lawsuit
    • AAUP Response to Provost Fredeen's October 2nd Email
    • Important Information on Campus Consolidation
    • Chinese Company Out As Buyer Of Westminster Choir College
    • Kaiwen is Gone
    • Kaiwen Education Reply to a June 2019 Inquiry from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange
    • Update on Kaiwen Education's Financial Status
    • Arbitration Over Layoffs at WCC
    • Kaiwen Education 2018 Annual Report
    • By Federal Reserve Standards Kaiwen Education is a Highly Leveraged and Risky Business
    • Two Updates on Kaiwen's Finances
    • Due Diligence and Kaiwen Education
    • Chronology of a Crisis
    • WCC Reset
    • New Jersey Attorney General’s Office Delivers Major Setback to Rider University’s Plan to Sell Westminster Choir College
    • Westminster Foundation Press Release on AG Investigation
    • Purchase Agreement
    • Faculty Shocked to Learn Secret Agreement Would Allow Buyer to Close Westminster Choir College
    • Universities as the Guardians of Assets
    • Press Release Kaiwen Finances
    • 2019 Report on Kaiwen
    • DejaVuDellOmo
    • Kaiwen Announcement 1/11/19
    • AAUP Goes to the NJ Assembly
    • Sign the Petition to Save WCC
    • WWCAC Letter November 8 2018
    • Kaiwen Education: Report on Company Performance Through the Third Quarter 2018
    • New Information Reveals Chinese Corporation Plans to Take $20 Million Westminster Choir College Endowment despite Prohibitions Imposed by State/Federal Law
    • More Bad News about Kaiwen
    • Claims v. Reality
    • AAUP Challenges Legitimacy of Newly announced Non-Profit Said To Be Created To Run Westminster Choir College
    • Label Your Stuff!
    • WCC Alumni Council Questions and Answers
    • Statement on Proposed Sale of Westminster Choir College Faculty Union Vows to Continue Oppose ill-conceived Sale of Iconic Music School
    • June 7 Letter to Board
    • A Failure of Due Diligence
    • Bond 2017
    • Chronology of the WCC Crisis
    • Kaiwen Education Technology
    • Pending Legal Actions >
      • Legal Complaints against Rider University over Sale of WCC
    • The Legacy of Westminster Choir College
    • Updates and Information Sent to Faculty from AAUP Leadership >
      • A Letter to WCC Faculty regarding President Dell'Omo's Letter
      • Open Letter to Board of Trustees
      • Letter to Faculty
      • How a For-profit Company Might Ruin Westminster
      • A Message from AAUP regarding the potential layoff of Westminster Faculty
      • ​Update on Westminster
    • Press Releases >
      • Outrage Over Rider University's Plan To Sell Legendary Choir College To Chinese For-Profit Company With No Experience in Higher Education
      • DellOmo Lays Off Entire WCC Faculty
    • WCC Crisis in the News >
      • The Coalition to Save Westminster Choir College Initiates Spin-Off Discussions With Rider University Administration
    • Letters of Support for WCC >
      • Eric Whitacre Praises Westminster
      • Statement of support from NJ Higher Ed Leadership Council.
      • Support for Westminster Choir College
    • Teach In at WCC
    • WCC Teach In Audio >
      • Remarks by Laura Brooks Rice
      • Have American Universities Lost Their Way? by Joel Phillips
    • Governance Standards in Institutional Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Negotiations
    • No Confidence Vote
  • CREDO
    • WCC Students Petition DellOmo
    • Dr. Sanjay G. Reddy Speaks to the Chapter
    • A Bargaining Unit Member's Guide to Credo Part 1
    • A Bargaining Unit Member's Guide to Credo Part 2
    • Rider AAUP Executive Committee Recommendations Concerning Credo Consulting
    • Administration Attempts to Bully AAUP Executive Committee
    • Save Rider Rally