{"id":1002,"date":"2025-04-09T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T00:16:50","slug":"contract-faculty-union-push-for-secure-permanent-visa-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/contract-faculty-union-push-for-secure-permanent-visa-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract faculty union push for secure permanent visa sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Administrators took \u201cmodest\u201d steps toward meeting Contract Faculty United\u2019s demand to sponsor international faculty for permanent residence at their negotiations session last week. Union members contested that, amid <\/span>hundreds of visa revocations<\/span><\/a> across U.S. college campuses, the school\u2019s offer to only permanently sponsor faculty under \u201cexceptional\u201d circumstances does not address more widespread concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n

In its <\/span>most recent bargaining session<\/span><\/a>, the union \u2014 which represents the university\u2019s full-time staff \u2014 called for NYU to sponsor international faculty members with any visa or visa extension they are eligible for, including permanent residency. Administrators countered that the Office of Global Services would decide whether to sponsor an international CFU member for a visa based on individual circumstances and departmental personnel needs, only sponsoring permanent residency on an \u201c<\/span>exceptional basis<\/span><\/a>.\u201d CFU representative Jacob Remes said administrators told the union that faculty sponsorships were decided at their respective dean\u2019s discretion.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the union knows that the NYU administration doesn\u2019t issue visas, it doesn’t issue green cards \u2014 that\u2019s the government,\u201d Remes told WSN. \u201cWhat we are seeking is for the administration to live up to the university’s values as a global network university and to sponsor our colleagues for stable immigration status so that they’re not at risk of deportation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement to WSN, NYU spokesperson John Beckman said administrators\u2019 counterproposal aimed to address concerns while satisfying legal mandates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe university and the union have been discussing these proposals at the table,\u201d Beckman said. \u201cI will make the point that the university has been raising with the union: that aspects of the university\u2019s proposals on international contract faculty and on grievances are specifically designed to follow legal requirements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Remes referenced a <\/span>Brown University professor\u2019s deportation<\/span><\/a> in March after she returned to the United States from Lebanon, despite holding a valid visa, indicating that noncitizen faculty need bolstered protections under the Trump administration. He said that NYU\u2019s proposal enables a \u201cnot very fair system\u201d that puts international faculty members at risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Administrators proposed to establish a committee of two CFU representatives and two NYU representatives that would meet up to three times per year to address grievances from international faculty members and discuss \u201cgeneral topics regarding international faculty.\u201d The university also said that if faculty fail to secure a visa due to other legal barriers, they are not permitted to a grievance process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The union also proposed an <\/span>amendment to faculty grievance processes<\/span><\/a>, urging the university to grant faculty members the right to appeal if they are dissatisfied with changes to their contract and stipulating that their appeal should be reviewed by a committee of contract faculty to ensure fair judgment. At the meeting, an SPS CFU member testified that they were denied promotion and spent eight months attempting to file a grievance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The union demanded that administrators permit a faculty committee to oversee appeals and insisted that the existing conditions stated in a faculty member\u2019s contract remain in place until a new contract is reached. Additionally, they requested the inclusion of arbitrators to finalize the decisions in the grievance process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo be the world class university that NYU is, we need to follow the best practices of the American university system,\u201d Remes said. \u201cThe best practices of the American university system are that decisions over who teaches what to whom are the key freedoms of faculty, and that those decisions need to be made on the basis of faculty expertise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

CFU also raised concerns about <\/span>last month\u2019s data breach<\/span><\/a>, where over 3 million applicants\u2019 names, test scores and other personal information were posted on NYU\u2019s website for at least two hours. Remes said that the data leak demonstrates the university\u2019s insufficient cybersecurity measures and urged administrators to better adhere to <\/span>current data privacy policies<\/span><\/a>, such as disposing of unneeded data, prohibiting data sharing to third parties without consent and informing individuals about how their information is used.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previously, administrators said they would commit to protecting \u201c<\/span>noncitizen colleagues and students<\/span><\/a>\u201d from detention or deportation if CFU rescinds its calls for stricter data privacy and security policies. In a previous interview with WSN, Remes said that he found the offer \u201cinsulting\u201d amid widespread concern that immigration-related personal data could be used against faculty as the Trump administration cracks down on noncitizens on university campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNYU says in its mission statement that it wants to be an internationally global university. It wants to have diverse voices and diverse people in its faculty,\u201d Remes said. \u201cOur position is that NYU should live up to its stated values and live up to the values of the mission statement of the university.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Amanda Chen at achen@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

This story Contract faculty union push for secure permanent visa sponsorship<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Administrators took \u201cmodest\u201d steps toward meeting Contract Faculty United\u2019s demand to sponsor international faculty for permanent residence at their negotiations session last week. Union members contested that, amid hundreds of visa revocations across U.S. college campuses, the school\u2019s offer to only permanently sponsor faculty under \u201cexceptional\u201d circumstances does not address more widespread concerns. In its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}