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FW: MLK School Program
FW: NOT A SINGLE POUND CHALLENGE IS BACK!
FW: 'Run, Hide, Fight' Class Offered FREE of Charge for Local Organizations
FW: CHIP Year 2 - Six Month Update Newsletter
(Nov. 14) FW: Environmental Services
(Nov. 16) FW: Education Town Hall
(Nov. 17) FW: Gem City Market T-shirt Contest
(Nov. 18) FW: Life After Loss: Getting Through Holiday Grief
(Nov. 19) FW: Region 7 Organizing Meeting
(Nov. 20) FW: "Sothern Renegades, 1640-1700" --- A Talk at WSU
(Save the Date: April 7, 2018) Annual Ohio Mathematics Contest (OMC)
FW: Chapter meeting report and more!
Press Release and related news articles around the WSU financial crisis
DDN: WSU faculty union creates procedure to authorize, call a strike

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From: Darsheel Kaur
Subject: MLK School Program

Just a friendly reminder about our MLK School Programs- the Arts/Poetry/Prose contest and the Wright State Scholarship contest.

Hope everything is going well and projects are coming along nicely! If you sent the information about the contest to people in your networks, feel free to forward them this reminder.

We will reach out soon with a drop-off location but if anyone has pieces ready to be dropped off, please contact me directly at darsheel.sehbi@daytonohio.gov and we can work something out in the meantime.

I have attached the application forms to this email.

From: GetUpMC
Subject: NOT A SINGLE POUND CHALLENGE IS BACK!

Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County is once again promoting the Not a Single Pound (NASP) challenge to encourage individuals not to gain weight during the upcoming holiday season. We all know it is very difficult to maintain our weight over the holidays. It has been found most people gain 1-2 pounds each year from Thanksgiving through New Year's and we want to help prevent that. Public Health has taken the initiative to improve Montgomery County's obesity rate by promoting healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.

The goal of the NASP Challenge is for all participants to maintain their body weight (or lose weight if desired) during the holiday season (Thanksgiving through New Year's). With just 4 steps, we've made it easy for you and your organization to participate:

Choose one person to represent your organization as a point of contact.
Determine if your organization will host weigh-ins. If yes, conduct the weigh-ins for your employees between November 13 -17. If no, there will be a 'Self-Report Tally Sheet' provided for your group to distribute to each participant.
At the end of the challenge, weigh-outs will be January 16 - 19. If you are conducting weigh-outs, you will use the 'NASP Organizational Spreadsheet' to complete the data. If you are not conducting weigh-outs, participants will complete their 'Self-Report Tally Sheet' and submit to organization's point of contact.
Submit completed challenge data back to us

Participation in the NASP challenge will include weekly healthy messages to send to your group, tracking spreadsheet, and any technical assistance needed. If your organization would like to participate please email the following back to getupmc@pdhmc.org:

Name of organization
Specific department/team name
Contact person's name, email, phone number

Participating in the challenge is simple and free. For more information, please visit www.phdmc.org/nasp.

From: Nextdoor Shortwest
Subject: 'Run, Hide, Fight' Class Offered FREE of Charge for Local Organizations

Dayton Police Department, City of Dayton AGENCY

The Dayton Police Department has several officers who are certified to teach the 'Run, Hide, Fight' program. This program is offered FREE of charge to businesses, churches, and civic organizations.

If you are interested in scheduling one of these classes for your group, please email Officer Chris Pawelski at Christopher.pawelski@daytonohio.gov

From: Dawn Ebron; Community Health Improvement Planning and Epidemiology Supervisor, Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County
Subject: CHIP Year 2 - Six Month Update Newsletter

Organizations throughout Montgomery County have been working collaboratively to implement the action plans of the 2016 – 2019 Montgomery County Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). In this 6 month progress update newsletter for the second year of CHIP implementation, I highlighted just a few of the success stories related to the CHIP priorities. CHIP progress is updated quarterly on the CHIP dashboard.
http://www.phdmc.org/report/community-health-improvement-plan

Please distribute this report to all who may be interested, and thank you for your continued commitment toward making Montgomery County a healthy, safe, and thriving community!

From: Carolyn Perkins
Subject: Environmental Services

Environmental Services Hosts "Test Your Water" Event

On Nov. 14, Montgomery County Environmental Services will once again host a free "Test Your Water" event, in partnership with the Miami Conservancy District, Ohio Water Well Association, Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County, Montgomery Soil & Water Conservation District, the University of Dayton, and the Rivers Institute.

Courtesy of the Miami Conservancy District, everyone who attends the event will receive a free nitrate/nitrite and iron screening. The first 50 attendees will also receive a free and confidential Lead, Arsenic and Manganese screening.

The "Test Your Water" Event will also feature:

Representatives from the Ohio Water Well Association to answer questions about well drilling and water treatment
Representatives from Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County to answer questions about private water systems
Discounted bacteria test kits for $20; first metal tests $12; each additional metal $4 each

Residents are asked to fill a one liter (32 oz) water bottle for screenings. For the lead test, take your water sample after a minimum of six hours of non-use or when you first turn on the water in the morning.

Event will be held at the Environmental Lab at 4257 Dryden Road, Moraine 45439 on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

For more information or questions, please call (937) 781-3016.

About Montgomery County Environmental Services: Montgomery County Environmental Services provides water and water reclamation (sewer) services to 80,000 customers, and solid waste and recycling services to 525,000 citizens in Montgomery County, Ohio. The department offers educational outreach programs for local schools, communities, and businesses that want to learn more about conservation and sustainability in the Miami Valley region. For more information, visit www.mcohio.org/departments/environmental_services, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook (@mcohioes).

From: Branford Brown
Subject: Education Town Hall

Please join us Thursday, November 16^th, 20117 for our Education Town Hall based on our recent publication "THE STATE OF BLACK DAYTON: Opportunities Lost." Learn To Earn will present a Data Walk at 6:00pm and the panel discussion will begin promptly at 7:00pm.

From: Etana G. Jacobi
Subject: FW: Gem City Market T-shirt Contest -- Please Spread the Word!

Gem City Market is running a t-shirt design contest and we are looking for submissions and help spreading the word! Could you please share this opportunity with your networks? We know the West side is full of talented artists and we want to make sure they know about this contest. The details are listed below and the flyer is attached. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Dayton, called the "Gem City," is more precious to us than a real gem stone because of the culture and communities that thrive here. The Gem City Market is having a contest to find the best t-shirt design in Dayton and invites you to celebrate our community in your own creative way! Entries do not have to necessarily reference Dayton, but should speak to the Gem City Market movement and the communities we serve.

Entries MUST:

Include "Gem City Market" name in the design.
Maintain that the design fits within a 10"x10" block and is vertically oriented.
Submit original art. No trademarked characters or other depictions will be allowed.
Submit one color artwork for printing. (Please suggest the color t-shirt you envision with your design.)
SUBMIT DESIGNS BY NOVEMBER 17th, 2017. These can be emailed to etanaj.hhi@dayton-unitedway.org or
mailed or dropped off by 5:00pm to:

United Way of the Greater Dayton Area
Attn: Etana Jacobi, T-Shirt Competition
33 W. First Street
Dayton, OH 45402

Other Notes:
The contest is open to everyone, but limited to two entries per person. The GCM outreach team and related volunteers will judge the entries. One first place winner ($150) and two honorable mention winners ($50) will be announced by December 1st. All winning entries become the property of Gem City Market and may be reproduced for promotional purposes.

From: The Mount Pisgah Church
Subject: TMPC Membership Services: STAY Focused Session

Throughout the year, The Mt. Pisgah Church offers workshops to encourage positive mental health.

On November 18th, professional psychologists will be onsite to provide skills for dealing with Life After Loss: Getting Through Holiday Grief.

We are better together! Let us Enhance our Focus.

The session is FREE & OPEN to the public.
Childcare provided.

From: Matthew Noordsij-Jones; Region 7 Coordinator, SPAN Ohio
Subject: (Nov. 19) Region 7 Organizing Meeting

SPAN's single payer bill is being introduced in the Ohio house next week and we have some local planning to do! Please join us for an organizing meeting on Sunday November 19th at 4pm in conference room 1a at the downtown Dayton library at 215 E 3rd St, Dayton, 45402. We have a lot to celebrate and lots of planning to push for healthcare for all!

If you have activities or topics that you would like to talk about please let me know or just bring them to the meeting. Please feel free to invite anyone else who may be interested in getting involved.

SPAN exists due to the generosity of individual donors. Please consider a donation today: Donations
SPAN Ohio is a 501(c)4 non-profit organization. Donations to SPAN Ohio are not tax deductible.
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From: Jim Vance
Subject: FW: Sothern Renegades, 1640-1700

Save the Date
for
2018 Ohio Mathematics Contest

Saturday, April 7, 2018
Conference Center (Building 12)
Sinclair Community College

This annual Ohio Mathematics Contest (OMC) is for upper elementary, middle and high school students in grades 4 through 11. It is organized by the Dayton Branch of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and hosted by the Department of Mathematics at Sinclair Community College (SCC). The OMC is also sponsored by the Dean's Office of the Division of Science, Mathematics & Engineering at SCC, Asian American Council in Dayton, the Ohio-Southwest Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and supported by various minority-community organizations in the Ohio Valley area (including the Greater Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton areas.)

The purpose of the contest is to stimulate interests in mathematics among upper elementary, middle and high school students and to recognize those who exhibit exceptional talents in Mathematical skills. The organizers and sponsors ask teachers and parents to strongly encourage their students and children in grades 4 through 11 to enter this Contest.

Please stay tuned for more details that will be released later toward the end of this year!!!

From: Stephanie Triplett; Communication Officer, AAUP-WSU
Subject: Chapter meeting report and more!

At our chapter meeting on Wednesday, November 8, we had a record turnout.

As Vice President Geoffrey Owens reported, our membership has never been higher, and it even went up a tick during the meeting. Since then it has gone higher again and is now over 85.4% of all BUFMs.

The budget for calendar year 2018 proposed by Treasurer Tom Rooney was approved. It authorizes expenditures of up to $250 thousand on CBA negotiations and job actions. But as Dr. Rooney pointed out, even if every bit of that funding were actually expended, the chapter would still enjoy cash on hand of nearly three-quarters of a million dollars.

Likewise, by a unanimous vote, the RCMs amended the AAUP-WSU Chapter Constitution and Bylaws (CC&B). The adopted amendment specifies a two-step procedure the chapter would use to initiate a strike. The first step is a vote of all RCMs to authorize the Executive Committee (EC) to call a strike; a 60% supermajority of those who vote is required for this authorization. The second step is a vote of the EC to actually initiate a strike following the authorization vote of the RCMs; again, a 60% supermajority is required.

On Wednesday evening, our Communication Officer circulated a press release about the CC&B amendment to various key news outlets. This was picked up by the Dayton Daily News, the Springfield News-Sun, WHIO, WDTN-TV, national AAUP, and AAUP's Collective Bargaining Congress. A follow-up Dayton Daily News story quoted President Marty Kich: "We don't want to suffer a permanent worsening of our employment conditions … so the administration can fix a short term budget issue that they created to begin with. It's impossible for us to resolve those budget issues by gutting our contract."

By now it may be becoming a cliché, but faculty working conditions are indeed student learning conditions.

In fact, reducing the number of faculty means fewer course offerings, larger classes, or increasing faculty course loads: faculty spread thin. All these "solutions" to WSU's administration-generated budget problems will hurt students and damage our University's academic reputation.

Moreover, base salary plus benefits for Bargaining Unit Faculty amount to only one dollar in six that WSU spends; but tuition and subsidy from the students faculty teach, together with faculty grant funding, supply virtually all the revenue on which our University operates. So it's not just irrational, it's irresponsible to try to squeeze more dollars out of instruction!

We are one faculty.

P.S. Remember to attend the chapter social on Friday, December 1, 4-6pm, in 113 Med Sci (the AAUP-WSU office), and to show up at the Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, December 15, 8:30am, in the Nutter Center's Berry Room.

Please like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. You can also post to the AAUP-WSU Blog.

NTE? TET? BUFM? CBA? RCM? What are all these acronyms? See this guide.
The list of AAUP-WSU Executive Committee members is available on our officers page.

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For Immediate Release on November 8, 2017
Media Contact: Martin Kich; President,
Wright State University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, (419) 303-4619

Wright State Faculty Approve Language for Strike Authorization Procedure

The Wright State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-WSU), the faculty union representing full-time faculty at WSU, adopted an amendment to its chapter constitution and bylaws creating a procedure for authorizing and calling a strike. The amendment was unanimously approved at this afternoon's chapter meeting, which had a record high attendance.

President Martin Kich said that, "We never had a procedure for calling a strike because in the past we always had a cordial relationship with the administration." He went on to say, "It is well known that an incompetent administration paired with a negligent Board of Trustees permitted flagrant misspending for several consecutive years that resulted in fiscal crisis at WSU. But even though most misspending occurred in areas irrelevant to the University's academic core missions – teaching students and undertaking research – the administration's budget cuts have actually targeted the academic core! In fact, Wright State students have already lost seventy-one faculty members due to the administration's budget cuts. That means students have fewer course offerings, higher student-to-faculty ratios, and other significant diminutions of the conditions under which they learn and complete degrees. Indeed, any erosion of faculty working conditions is an erosion of student learning conditions!"

The unprecedented move to approve the strike authorization procedure is necessary to protect the core missions of teaching and research at Wright State University. Negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement began in January but broke down in March when the Board hired an outside attorney to replace the university's chief negotiator. The union has attended two mediation sessions with a federal mediator but the university's representative refused to provide the union with any concrete proposals at those sessions. The existing contract, which expired June 30, 2017 remains in effect until after a fact-finder's report is issued. Fact-finding is scheduled for late January. A strike would be a last resort undertaken pursuant to Ohio Revised Code (state law) and is the faculty's mechanism of last resort to protect our collective bargaining rights and the core mission of the institution.

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AAUP-WSU is the exclusive collective bargaining agent for Wright State's fulltime faculty (excepting only administrators) with appointments in the university's primary academic colleges on both the Dayton and Celina campuses. [These colleges are the Colleges of Engineering and Computer Science; Education and Human Services; Liberal Arts; Nursing and Health; Science and Mathematics; the Lake Campus; and the Raj Soin College of Business.] At present, AAUP-WSU represents 584 faculty members. Collective bargaining for WSU tenured and tenure-eligible faculty began in spring 1998 and was expanded to include non-tenure-eligible faculty in fall 2012, both via secret ballot votes overseen by the Ohio State Employment Relations Board.

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http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/wsu-faculty-union-creates-procedure-authorize-and-call-strike/JqisjKjyNPcEvxhuRwzWwJ/

WSU faculty union creates procedure to authorize and call a strike

The Wright State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the faculty union representing full-time faculty at WSU, has created a procedure for authorizing and calling a strike.

The chapter, at a meeting Wednesday afternoon, unanimously adopted an amendment to its chapter constitution and bylaws creating the procedure, AAUP-WSU President Martin Kich said in a prepared statement released tonight.

"We never had a procedure for calling a strike because in the past we always had a cordial relationship with the administration," Kich said in the statement.

This news organization has attempted to contact a university spokesman for a response.

At present, according to the statement, AAUP-WSU represents 584 faculty members.

Kich, in the statement, said there was "record high attendance" at Wednesday's meeting.

"It is well known that an incompetent administration paired with a negligent Board of Trustees permitted flagrant misspending for several consecutive years that resulted in fiscal crisis at WSU," he said.

"But even though most misspending occurred in areas irrelevant to the University's academic core missions – teaching students and undertaking research – the administration's budget cuts have actually targeted the academic core!"

In fact, according to the statement, Wright State students have already lost 71 faculty members because of the administration's budget cuts.

"That means students have fewer course offerings, higher student-to-faculty ratios, and other significant diminutions of the conditions under which they learn and complete degrees. Indeed, any erosion of faculty working conditions is an erosion of student learning conditions!"

Kich, in the statement, said the "unprecedented move" to approve the strike authorization procedure is necessary to protect the core missions of teaching and research at Wright State University.

Negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement began in January but broke down in March when the Board hired an outside attorney to replace the university's chief negotiator, he said. The union has attended two mediation sessions with a federal mediator but the university's representative refused to

provide the union with any concrete proposals at those sessions.

The existing contract, which expired June 30, 2017, remains in effect until after a fact-finder's report is issued.

Fact-finding is scheduled for late January.

A strike would be a last resort undertaken pursuant to Ohio Revised Code (state law) and is the faculty's mechanism of last resort to protect our collective bargaining rights and the core mission of the institution, Kich said in the statement.

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