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- FW: Cheap Seats at Shuster Center & Victoria Theater in December 2017
- FW: What's Happening at the Y in December
- FW: DEA's Operation Prevention Video Challenge Launched
- (Dec. 13) FW: Community Conversation
- (Dec. 18) FW: Hope Has Risen Christmas Dinner
- News About WSU & AAUP-WSU
- FW: Press Release from AAUP-WSU re: Faculty Overwhelmingly Sign Pledge to Reject any Unfair Contract
- DDN Article: Wright State faculty union: Cutting jobs not the ‘fix WSU needs’
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From: Ticket Center Stage
Subject: Cheap Seats at Shuster Center & Victoria Theater in December 2017
HOW IT WORKS
Dayton Power & Light Company CHEAP SEATS are $10 seats available mostly in the upper balcony at the Schuster Center and balcony at the Victoria Theatre for select performances. These seats are only available to purchase online and are limited in quantity. Seats are sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Here's how it works:
- You'll receive one email a month with information about what $10 tickets are available for the next month's performances.
- $10 ticket are available while supplies last or until 48 hours before the performance.
- There's no charge to receive alerts.
- You can only buy DP&L Company CHEAP SEATS online. They are not available at the Box Office or by phone. DP&L Company CHEAP SEATS can be purchased by clicking the "Buy Now" buttons on this email or by clicking here.
- You will not be able to select specific seating locations, they are first-come, first-served and assigned by Ticket Center Stage. If you have special seating needs, please indicate this on your order by selecting the special needs ticket type.
- Tickets must be purchased together to be seated together.
- You can buy up to four (4) $10 tickets per show. Accounts found to have multiple orders with the total of tickets exceeding will be subject to cancellation.
- There is a $2 fee per order.
Your tickets will be available at the Box Office the day of the show, between 10 a.m. and showtime Monday through Friday and two hours prior to your performance on Saturday and Sunday.
CHEAP SEAT PERFORMANCES
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Ticket Center Stage is the official ticketing outlet for events at the Schuster Center, Victoria Theatre and The Loft Theatre. When buying online or by phone, a service fee is added to each ticket. Some additional restrictions and additional fees may apply. Subject to availability. Prices subject to change.
From: YMCA of Greater Dayton
Subject: What's Happening at the Y in December
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From: Bruce Langos
Subject: DEA's Operation Prevention Video Challenge Launched
Students have a chance to lead the change in schools-
and win up to $10,000 doing it.
Operation Prevention, an initiative brought to you by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Discovery Education, aims to combat the growing epidemic of prescription opioid misuse and heroin use by educating students about the science behind addiction and its impacts on the brain and body.
Now students can go beyond the classroom and get involved combating the epidemic. The Operation Prevention Video Challenge encourages students to send a message to their peers about prescription opioid misuse by creating a 30-60 second original Public Service Announcement. Your students have a unique voice to reach their peers and raise awareness about the dangers of this widespread issue.
High School students who enter have the chance to win incredible prizes from the DEA and DEA Educational Foundation:
- First Place: $10,000
- Second Place: $5,000
- Third Place: $1,000
- People's Choice: A trip to Quantico, Virginia for an exclusive tour of the DEA Training Academy.
Encourage teens to start brainstorming today: The Challenge closes on March 20, 2018!
To learn more and view last year's finalists, click here.
From: David K. Greer
Subject: FW: Community Conversation - Wednesday December 13, 2017 College Hill Community Church
The NWPB is partnering with the Miami Valley Organizing Collaborative (MVOC), College Hill Neighborhood Association (CHNA), and the College Hill Community Church on Wednesday December 13, 2017 for a Community Conversation.
The topics will be Low Property Values, Infant Mortality, Food Insecurity, and Bail Reform. It will be held at the College Hill Community Center beginning at 6:00pm to 7:00pm located at 1547 Philadelphia Drive.
From: Shelly Diaz; Assistant to Chief Deputy Streck
Subject: FW: Hope Has Risen Christmas Dinner
You're Invited!
From: Stephanie Triplett
Subject: Press Release from AAUP-WSU re: Faculty Overwhelmingly Sign Pledge to Reject any Unfair Contract
The following press release went out to: Dayton Daily News, WSU Daily Guardian, WHIO-TV, WDTN-TV, Fox 45 TV, Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle, and OCAAUP.
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For Immediate Release on December 3, 2017
Media Contact: Martin Kich; President, Wright State University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors
Wright State Faculty Overwhelmingly Sign Pledge to Reject Any Unfair Contract
More than 82% of the teaching faculty at Wright State University who are members of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have signed a pledge to reject any contract that further penalizes faculty for the gross mismanagement of the university.
According to Marty Kich, the President of AAUP-WSU, “Over the last two years, the university has eliminated more than ten percent of its teaching faculty through attrition. Worse, the Board and administration now seem to want to gut the faculty contract to allow for further, rapid reductions in the number of teaching faculty simply to meet immediate budget targets. They seem very willing to ignore the longer-term consequences of having dramatically fewer full-time faculty-- less expertise and fewer and larger classes. That’s not the ‘fix’ WSU needs.”
Kich added, “ We are concerned that quality of instruction will be compromised in order to sustain a variety of schemes that were supposed to produce additional revenue streams for the university but have instead, without exception, cost the university tens of millions of dollars.”
It is rare for a public university of Wright State’s size to run even a single year of negative cash flow, never mind four or five consecutive years of negative cash flow. Over those years, the Wright State administration, with the approval of the Board of Trustees, ran through more than $100 million in reserves.
It is important to note that over that half-decade, enrollment at the university was stable, around 17,500 students, give or take 100-200 students in a given year. Likewise, over that half decade, the total salary and benefits of teaching faculty at the university did not amount to more than 17 ½ percent of the university’s budget. To put that in more immediate, pocket-book terms, only 17 ½ cents out of each dollar of tuition go to the full-time faculty engaged in teaching students.
The point of the pledge to signal to the fact-finder and the Board that the faculty will not accept any contract that involves making even deeper cuts to instruction. Additional cuts to instruction will compromise the quality of education being offered to students and may undermine the university’s main sources of revenue.
Kich observed: “Over the past half-decade, when the leadership of AAUP-WSU repeatedly expressed concerns about Wright State’s profligate over-spending, our concerns were dismissed as if we were simply being alarmists or habitually critical. A university administration that ignores meaningful faculty input on things as basic as its budget ends up where Wright State has now found itself—trying to eliminate in a year or two a problem that was created through more than half a decade of irresponsible management. If carried far enough, that approach can very easily end up making the problems much worse.”
More than 85% of the teaching faculty represented by AAUP at Wright State are AAUP members. That percentage is the highest of any university in the state of Ohio.
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Fast-Fact Sheets:
- AAUP-WSU Fast Facts #1: Administrative Bloat
- AAUP-WSU Fast Facts #2: Loss of BUFM Positions
- AAUP-WSU Fast Facts #3: Enrollment and the Budget
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http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/wright-state-faculty-union-cutting-jobs-not-the-fix-wsu-needs/OpV1lPmyrVujWsO3Jmg6BJ/
Wright State faculty union: Cutting jobs not the ‘fix WSU needs’
Published: Monday, December 04, 2017 @ 10:29 AM
By: Max Filby - Staff Writer
A majority of the employees represented by Wright State University’s faculty union have signed a pledge rejecting any contract that penalizes them “for the gross mismanagement of the university.”
Contract negotiations between Wright State’s faculty union and the administration have been stalled since March. The union created a strike plan in November, said president Martin Kich.
Kich and the WSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors fear that the university wants the next contract to make it easier to lay off faculty members because of the school’s financial difficulties. Earlier this year, Wright State’s board of trustees approved more than $30.8 million in budget cuts in an attempt to begin correcting years of overspending.
Kich said that the faculty union took issue with the university’s overspending years earlier but was told they were “simply being alarmists or habitually critical.” The union represents around 584 faculty members and not all faculty are in the union, a university spokesman has said.
Wright State has to carve around $10.5 million out of its budget this year and the school plans to do so mostly by letting empty positions go unfilled, officials have said. Kich criticized that tactic in a AAUP-WSU press release today though.
“Over the last two years, the university has eliminated more than ten percent of its teaching faculty through attrition. Worse, the Board and administration now seem to want to gut the faculty contract to allow for further, rapid reductions in the number of teaching faculty simply to meet immediate budget targets,” Kich said in a prepared statement. “They seem very willing to ignore the longer-term consequences of having dramatically fewer full-time faculty— less expertise and fewer and larger classes. That’s not the ‘fix’ WSU needs.”
Last month, Wright State’s administration responded to the threat of a faculty union strike for the first time, saying that “both practically and legally, a strike is not imminent.” This news organization has reached out to WSU for a comment on the latest statements from the faculty union.
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