- October 20, 2020AFT #2275 President Rodger Jackson walks faculty members through the process for applying for unemployment to help offset the financial burden of the two five-day furlough blocks later this year. These furloughs were a result of the June 30, 2020 Statewide Job Protection Agreement (http://www.cnjscl.org/Library/CNJSCL%20AFT%20-%20State%20of%20New%20Jersey%20-%20Job%20Protection%20MOA%206-30-20.pdf).
- September 16, 2020Bart Musitano, head of the Benefits section of the Stockton University Office of Human Resources leads a webinar on the healthcare switch for those who are currently enrolled in the NJ 15 Direct. Check out these links for more information: ~Plan Comparision Chart (https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/pensions/documents/hb/oe2020/ha1059.pdf) ~NJ Direct Summary (hired before 7-1-2019) (https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/pensions/documents/hb/oe2020/sbcs/sbc052.pdf) ~NJ Direct2019 Summary (hired after 7-1-2019) (https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/pensions/documents/hb/oe2020/sbcs/sbc051.pdf) ~Member Contribution Worksheet (https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/pensions/documents/hb/oe2020/union-negotiated-contributions-monthly20.pdf) ~NJ Direct/NJ Direct2019 Member Guidebook (https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/pensions/documents/guidebooks/hb0814.pdf) ~Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield/SHBP Website (https://www.horizonblue.com/shbp/)
- August 31, 2020SFT and Bart Musitano, Manager of University Pensions & Benefits at Stockton University, host a webinar to answer questions about the University's Work-From-Home process and leave options in response to COVID-19.
- July 28, 2020At Stockton University, our curriculum forms our very foundation, and systemic change can start with serious effort to both decenter Western and white perspectives across the curriculum in favor of inclusion of non-Western and non-white perspectives, experiences, and modes of knowledge. This intentional decentering is referred to as decolonizing the curriculum. A group of faculty and staff members have already been actively working toward decolonizing the curriculum (https://www.stockton.edu/diversity/decolonizing-curriculum.html), and this teach-in and Q&A discusses the foundation of decolonization, approaches toward decolonization in different fields, and “next steps” to take in your own teaching practice. Featuring (in alphabetical order): Emily August, Assistant Professor of British Literature, Stockton University Joseph Cirio, Assistant Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies, Stockton University Zornitsa Kalibatseva, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stockton University Thierry Santine, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and First-Year Studies, Stockton University Ekaterina Sedia, Associate Professor of Biology, Stockton University Kaite Yang, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stockton University Our panelists recommended several valuable resources to help you take steps toward decolonization: • Asao B. Inoue (2015) Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for Socially Just Future. Full text: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/inoue/ • Asao B. Inoue (2019) Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom. Full Text: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/labor/ • Jane Danielewicz and Peter Elbow. “A Unilateral Grading Contract to Improve Learning and Teaching.” College Composition and Communication, 2009, vol. 61, no. 2, 2009, pp. 244-268. • Ira Shore. “Critical Pedagogy Is Too Big to Fail.” Journal of Basic Writing, vol. 28, no. 2, 2009, pp. 6-29. • Joe Cirio. “Meeting the Promise of Negotiation: Situating Negotiated Rubrics with Students’ Prior Experiences” Writing Program Administration, vol. 42, no. 2, 2019, pp. 100-118. • Gutstein, E., & Peterson, B. (2013). Rethinking mathematics: Teaching social justice by the numbers. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools. • Glenn Adams, Sara Estrada-Villalta, Daniel Sullivan and Hazel Rose Markus. “The Psychology of Neoliberalism and the Neoliberalism of Psychology” Journal of Social Issues, vol. 75, no. 1, 2019, pp. 189-216. • Teaching Tolerance – Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.splcenter.org/teaching-tolerance • Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan. “Most people are not WEIRD” Nature, vol. 466, no. 29, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1038/466029a • Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan. “The Weirdest People in the World?” Behav Brain Sci, vol. 33, no. 2-3, 2010, pp. 83-135. • Robin Wall Kimmerer. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass • Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/as-we-have-always-done • Forthcoming: Theirry Saintine. Racial Inequality in Mathematics Education: Exploring Academic Identity as Belonging. Contract grading resources (Google Folder): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10so4annSMTc9bKT4g_gtip4NLoxp8CgZ?usp=sharing We acknowledge Stockton University sits on the traditional territory and homelands stolen from the Lenni-Lenape peoples. To learn more about the history of the Lenni Lenape and about their advocacy and community work in our region, we’d encourage you to visit the websites of the Tribal Council for the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape (https://nanticoke-lenape.info/ ) and of the Friends of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape https://nanticoke-lenape.info/friends.htm. If you are not in the New Jersey region, we encourage you to take the first step and learn of the indigenous history of your own location using Native Land: https://native-land.ca/ (world-wide searching).
- July 21, 2020The past several months have brought questions about the role of policing into public conversation. Calls to "abolish" prisons, "defund" police, and build "police-free schools" have raised many questions about public safety and crime prevention. Join us for a panel discussion and Q&A about the central demand of the Movement for Black Lives of defunding the police, with special attention to the role of policing in schools. Featuring: Amelia Carter, Penn Community for Justice Saudia Durrant, Philadelphia Student Union Christina Jackson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stockton University Nazia Kazi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stockton University Ekaterina Sedia, Associate Professor of Biology, Stockton University Recorded: Tuesday, July 21st at 7 pm, via Zoom.
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