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Professions
P.O. Box 15143
Albany, NY
Zip: 12212-5143
Telephone
800-342-4206
or 518-640-6600
Fax
866-812-9446
or 518-640-6698
UUP Benefit Trust
Tel: 800-887-3863
or 518-640-6680
Fax: 866-559-0516
or 518-640-6699
Street Address
800 Troy-Schenectady
Road, Latham, NY
12110
Email input@uupmail.org
March 2003
Budget Initiatives:
Rebuild SUNY’s Full-time Academic and Professional Faculty
— UUP calls for a Universitywide level of at least
70 percent full-time academic faculty. While the number of full-time faculty has declined sharply in recent years, SUNY currently has the highest full-time undergraduate and graduate student enrollment in history.
— SUNY should provide our excellent part-time faculty with the opportunity for full-time employment; our students deserve smaller class sizes and more full-time faculty as role models and mentors.
Fully Fund Campus Budget Priorities
— Provide additional funding and faculty for implementation of campus budget priorities:
Develop a Permanent Solution to the Fiscal Problems at SUNY’s Health Science Centers
— The SUNY health science centers play a vital role in New York state, providing health care education, biomedical research and public health services. The governor and the state Legislature must provide the funding necessary to safeguard these vital institutions.
— Any solution to the state-imposed fiscal crisis at the teaching hospitals must protect programs, jobs and the hospitals’ vital public health mission.
Address the Fiscal Uncertainties at NYSTI
— Return all UUP members at the New York State Theatre Institute to full-time status and provide adequate staff for each department.
— Develop a permanent solution to NYSTI’s annual budgetary uncertainties. Since 1992, there have been annual fixes, but no permanent solution to the problems.
Legislative initiatives:
Provide SUNY and CUNY Employees Pension Equity with Other State Employees
— Pension equity would include state payment of the employees’ contribution to the optional retirement program (ORP) after 10 years of membership or military service recognition.
Restore Civil and Human Rights
— Support legislation that restores civil and human rights of public employees, such as A05971 and S5493 (apply to the Americans with Disabilities Act), A07405 (applies to the Family and Medical Leave Act) and A01720 and S6909-A (apply to the Violence Against Women Act).