Fortunately, faculty at Southern, Central, Eastern and Western Connecticut State Universities are represented by a union, which they will need given the start of these negotiations:
A draft contract put forth by the university eliminates procedural protections regarding academic freedom, terminations and retrenchment; faculty ownership of original online course materials and the right to teach them; conference, travel and research funds; universitywide tenure committees; and privacy and grievance policies for personnel files.
The university system also wants to increase teaching loads from 12 credit hours per semester to 15 and pilot changing the academic calendar from two to three terms, with faculty members required to teach for two such terms annually.
If you know of similar cases of proposals for radical cuts and restructuring in the wake of the pandemic, feel free to add links in the comments.
