The Tufts Community Union Senate, representing the undergraduate student body, stands in support of the full-time lecturers and Professors of the Practice in their priorities for livable salaries and manageable workloads. We stand in support of a change in workload policies and more transparent responsibilities related to their role. The undergraduate students of Tufts University hold a direct interest in all faculty members being fairly compensated so that they can retain their remarkable and world-class faculty.
As students, we see, first-person, the hard work that full-time lecturers and Professors of the Practice perform on a daily basis. Their compensation is a representation of the value that Tufts places on its faculty, and in turn, on its core mission of delivering a transformative education. When the lessons that our faculty performs are undervalued, so are the lessons they teach their students.
We request that the Board of Trustees and leadership of Tufts University swiftly meet the moment by supporting and delivering a fair contract to the full-time lecturers and Professors of the Practice at Tufts.
Signed,
Tufts Community Union Senate
