Items of Collegiality:

1. UUP would like to inform Management of their Holiday Food Drive, a collaboration with Catholic Charities of Cortland County, going on now until December 4, during which we will be collecting non-perishable food items, hygiene items, and gifts to benefit needy families in Cortland County.
2. UUP acknowledges the continued communication and collaboration between us and management as we continue to navigate the COVID 19 pandemic in the SUNY Cortland and surrounding community.

New Business:

1. Precisely how many faculty have agreed to take an overload in fall 2020?

• Taking into consideration the proposed hard hiring freeze, what is management’s plan for addressing the continual overloads taken on by tenure track faculty and junior faculty in the School of Professional Studies, particularly as it pertains to the Department of Physical Education?
• With regard to the number of Part-Time Lecturers who taught at least one course in fall 2020, UUP requests an update on the following from the Dean of each of the three Schools for Spring 2021:

1. Number of Part-Time Lecturers not invited back?
   1. Number of Part-Time Lecturers with reduced courses assigned?
   2. Number of Part-Time Lecturers with fewer than six contact/credit hours assigned?

• Does management intend to complete the 2020 DSI process and distribute awards by December 31?
  • Has any consideration been given to across-the-board awards for all employees?
• Has any consideration been given to an across-the-board award for part-time employees?
• What is the status of the inequity analysis for 2020?
• UUP Survey of Professionals, Summary Results:

1. Results indicate communication issues with professionals:
   1. What is your plan for increasing accuracy of communications with employees before spring 2021?
2. General responses indicate, for example, an understanding that residence halls have been operating at 100% capacity.

• Results indicate concerns about increased workload without compensation of any kind:

1. What plan does Management have to document this temporary work, so as to prevent an increase in performance obligations without compensation?
   1. 27% of respondents said there was a change to work schedule with no accompanying change to performance program.
   2. 33% change in workload with no accompanying change in performance program.

• Results indicate some areas were provided with equipment to telecommute:

1. How many and which areas specifically were provided with equipment to enable employees to telecommute?
   1. UUP has concerns about equity in providing equipment to enable employees to telecommute.

• Campus Student Surveys: UUP has some concerns about reported issues with bias in the survey, reported in a Town Hall meeting held by the Concerned Faculty Committee and which were read out at Faculty Senate.

1. Will the results of the survey be used to evaluate faculty, either generally or specifically?

• Planning for Spring 2021:

1. In what ways is planning for the spring semester being done?

• In what ways might the faculty and other employee groups on campus be consulted in the planning process?
• How soon will a draft plan be completed?
  • Can you discuss any features of the plan at this point?
• Will UUP members be given an opportunity to provide feedback on the plan?

Old Business:

      1. April 30 Memorandum of Understanding on Tenure Clock Stops and Personnel Actions:

1. Aside from the email from Human Resources late in the summer, how will the

campus put into practice this MOU, in terms of communication and implementation?

• Can Management provide an update on the tracking system being developed?
• How will evaluators be advised to proceed if campus or departmental policies contradict the MOU?
• Faculty are required to perform CTEs on a timetable (e.g. once every third time they teach a course (Handbook 260.02, I.13), or more often based on departmental policies). If the person would have been required to perform CTEs in the spring of 2020 under ordinary circumstances, what will the expectations be for them?
• The present crisis may have serious effects on scholarly activity, including publishers shutting down, delay of crucial fieldwork, and the like. If this has a long-term impact on a person’s research, will the campus still require three scholarly achievements in that case?
• UUP requests a copy of the draft document generated by Andrew Fitzgibbon, mentioned at LM 10/15/2020, which Faculty Senate may adopt, which would outline hardships presented by COVID 19 to employee’s professional obligations.
• Will there be a similar document drafted for professionals? UUP requests to review that document.