VLADECK, ELIAS, VLADECK 8 LEwiIs, P. C.
COUNSELLORS AT LAW
ISO! BROADWAY - NEW YORK, N.Y. 10036

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STEPHEN C. VLADECK
SYLVAN H. ELIAS 221-2550
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Re; Retrenchment of Adjunct Faculty
Dear Arnold:

This will confirm my telephone conversation with you
with regard to the processing of the grievance concerning
the retrenchment of adjuncts by the Board of Higher
Education and the possibility of success in an arbitration

proceeding,

As I stated to you, adjunct lecturers do not acquire
either tenure or a Certificate of Continuous Employment,
Section 11.4 very specifically describes the adjunct faculty
as those who "are not full time members of the City University
faculty and who teach part time or who have other part time
assignments in the University." Article 12, which deals with
appointment and Certificate of Continuous Employment, pro-
vides only that "no part time (faculty) shall be denied re-
appointment on the basis of professional incompetence unless
he has been evaluated a number of periods." As I understand

it, those who have been retrenched or laid off have been told
result of budgetary

problems and for no other reason.

The original award in this case, of course, was the
Wildebush award, which determined that the only basis for
the termination of lecturers part-time or adjunct lecturers
was just because of curriculum change, budgetary consideration,
lack of regiStration and so on. Implicit in all of the awards
and in the contract itself is that adjunct faculty has no
job security where the University can utilize one of those
reasons for termination and sustain its position with regard

to it.



i min sates

Mr, Arnold Cantor c2- November 4, 1975

Under the circumstances, I do not believe that there is
any way of establishing a case supporting the adjunct faculty's
position, It has no job security beyond that specifically pro-
vided for in the agreement and I would not recommend that the
issue be arbitrated since I doubt that there is any possibility
for success.

I would, of course, be glad to meet with you or any of
your officers to discuss it further should you feel that such
discussion is warranted.

Sincerely,

Stephen C. Vladeck

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