Thread by @famiamioh

Associate Vice President for Academic Personnel Ruth Groom takes the stand. She argues that VAPs are temporary faculty and that staff who also have more than 50% teaching responsibilities are staff, not faculty

#FAMhearings

The judge helpfully asked the university lawyers to “short course” their discussion of each and every faculty member in the hybrid faculty table 🐢

I think we’re all noticing the tactic of drawing this out unnecessarily 🐢🐢🐢

FAM’s cross-examination: “M’s. Groom, you could be a hearing officer for 4 different ranks of cooks, 6 different ranks of building staff, etc. Do you agree these are divergent jobs?”
“Not all of them diverge.”
“And yet they are covered under one contract?”
“Yes.” #FAMhearings

Orange or pink? 🧡💕 Staff or faculty? everything is unclear when you’re trying to contest our data

FAM lawyer: “Are you aware that other unions at public institutions in OH DO include faculty-staff hybrids who do more than 50% teaching?” M’s. Groom: “I don’t know.”

“It’s the WORK that a faculty-staff appointment does that matters, not the administration’s classification of them or their title” ~FAM lawyer

Are VAPs always not renewed after 5 years? NO. “Exceptions can be granted by the Provost.”

Ms. Groom: “A minority of VAPs are retained as a TCPL when you look at the overall percentage.” FAM lawyer: “It’s a lot though.”