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University of New HampshireUniversity of New Hampshire Scholars' RepositoryMedia Relations Administrative Offices3-18-2010AAUP Agrees to Suspend Summer School BoycottErika MantzUNH Media RelationsFollow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/newsThis News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Administrative Offices at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It hasbeen accepted for inclusion in Media Relations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For moreinformation, please contact nicole.hentz@unh.edu.Recommended CitationMantz, Erika, "AAUP Agrees to Suspend Summer School Boycott" (2010). UNH Today. 3270.https://scholars.unh.edu/news/3270UNH Media RelationsAAUP Agrees To Suspend Summer School Boycott Media Contact: Erika Mantz603-862-1567UNH Media Relations March 18, 2010 DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-UNH) today agreed to immediately suspend its efforts to boycott the university's summer session, avoiding a Superior Court hearing requesting the continuation of the temporary restraining order issued by the court on March 10, 2010. In paperwork filed this morning in Strafford County Superior Court, AAUP-UNH agreed it would not "encourage, sanction, condone, publicize or threaten to engage in" any activities related to a summer school boycott pending final resolution of the unfair labor practice complaint filed by the university and currently awaiting hearing before the state Public Employee Labor Relations Board (PELRB). That hearing is expected to take place soon after the April 8, 2010, collective bargaining fact finding session."We are very pleased the faculty union has agreed to suspend its efforts to encourage a boycott of the university's summer session," said Candace Corvey, chief negotiator for the UNH. "Thousands of students rely on UNH summer school every year and this will ensure we can provide them with the quality and variety of classes they need and have come to expect."The university maintains the AAUP was not only violating state law by advocating for a boycott but its own collective bargaining agreement, which states that strikes and other forms of job action are unlawful. Specifically, the contract states that "the AAUP agrees it shall not directly or indirectly encourage, sanction, or condone any activities by members of the unit in violation of this Article." The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 12,200 undergraduate and 2,200 graduate students. -30-Page 1 of 1AAUP Agrees to Suspend Summer School Boycott1/8/2018http://www.unh.edu/delete/news/cj_nr/2010/mar/em18aaup.cfm.html

AAUP Agrees to Suspend Summer School Boycott

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University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository
Media Relations Administrative Offices
3-18-2010
AAUP Agrees to Suspend Summer School Boycott
Erika Mantz
UNH Media Relations
Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/news
This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Administrative Offices at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has
been accepted for inclusion in Media Relations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more
information, please contact nicole.hentz@unh.edu.
Recommended Citation
Mantz, Erika, "AAUP Agrees to Suspend Summer School Boycott" (2010). UNH Today. 3270.
https://scholars.unh.edu/news/3270
UNH Media Relations
AAUP Agrees To Suspend Summer School Boycott 
Media Contact: Erika Mantz
603-862-1567
UNH Media Relations 
March 18, 2010 
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire chapter of the American Association of 
University Professors (AAUP-UNH) today agreed to immediately suspend its efforts to 
boycott the university's summer session, avoiding a Superior Court hearing requesting the 
continuation of the temporary restraining order issued by the court on March 10, 2010. 
In paperwork filed this morning in Strafford County Superior Court, AAUP-UNH agreed it 
would not "encourage, sanction, condone, publicize or threaten to engage in" any 
activities related to a summer school boycott pending final resolution of the unfair labor 
practice complaint filed by the university and currently awaiting hearing before the state 
Public Employee Labor Relations Board (PELRB). That hearing is expected to take place 
soon after the April 8, 2010, collective bargaining fact finding session.
"We are very pleased the faculty union has agreed to suspend its efforts to encourage a 
boycott of the university's summer session," said Candace Corvey, chief negotiator for the 
UNH. "Thousands of students rely on UNH summer school every year and this will ensure 
we can provide them with the quality and variety of classes they need and have come to 
expect."
The university maintains the AAUP was not only violating state law by advocating for a 
boycott but its own collective bargaining agreement, which states that strikes and other 
forms of job action are unlawful. Specifically, the contract states that "the AAUP agrees it 
shall not directly or indirectly encourage, sanction, or condone any activities by members 
of the unit in violation of this Article." 
The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research 
university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant 
university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 12,200 undergraduate 
and 2,200 graduate students. 
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