BGSU closer to contract

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After months of mounting friction, it appears Bowling Green State University and its faculty union may have moved closer to a first contract.
The administration and faculty union announced this morning that they have reached an agreement in principle on the union contract.
Details are being finalized and must be ratified by the union’s membership and approved by the BGSU Board of Trustees.
Meanwhile, the administration’s controversial proposal to cut faculty is moving forward.
Dave Kielmeyer, spokesman for BGSU, said this morning that the administration’s effort to terminate 100 faculty members is going ahead as planned. The administration has the right to make such cuts, though the effects of the cuts must be negotiated, he said.
“We are still finalizing the details of the effects bargaining,” Kielmeyer said.
But both sides praised the first contract proposal that must now be approved by faculty members and the BGSU Board of Trustees.