After meeting for four hours, the Ministry of Superior Education and representatives of the state university (UASD) professors, staff and student unions agreed to call an end to the professors and employee strike that had effectively shut down UASD and prevented classes from resuming following the long Christmas and New Years holiday break.
Superior Education Minister Alejandrina Germán was present when professor union and UASD university authorities agreed to a 10-15% increase for state university professors and employees starting in January 2017.
The meeting took place at the Ministry of Superior Education, Science and Technology (MEESCyT). Participating for the UASD professors was Santiago Guillermo, the head of the UASD professors union, Faprouasd.
Guillermo agree to convene an assembly of UASD professors on Wednesday, 15 February at 10 AM to brief the faculty and staff and allow them to vote on the 9-point agreement negotiated in the presence of Minister Alejandrina Germán.
Germán said that a follow up commission was created to prepare a list of the main problems affecting the university and come up with an action plan for the short, medium and long term. Members of the commission are: Minister Alejandrina Germán, former MEESCyT minister Ligia Amada Melo; a representative of the rector of the UASD; two representatives of Faprouasd; two representatives of Asodemu that gathers the employees, former rector of the UASD Porfirio García and the president of the Dominican Society of Daily Newspapers, Persio Maldonado. The commission will also thoroughly review the university payroll to assure that there all faculty and staff appointments are in order.
Germán said the funds for the wage increase would come from the present budget of the state university.
She said a national forum would be organized with national and international experts with the theme: Relaunching the UASD: from the Renovation Movement to Modernity.”
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El Caribe
15 February 2017
