Frustrated LIU-Brooklyn students walk out on replacement instructors
Criticism of Administration Mounts as Faculty Lockout and Contract Impasse Drag On
The fall semester at Long Island University-Brooklyn is barely a week old, but already failing grades are being issued — to replacement faculty.
Some 400 full-time and adjunct professors have been locked out of classrooms at the school’s Downtown Brooklyn campus since Sept. 3 after negotiations for a new contract to replace the pact that expired Aug. 31 broke down. Substitute instructors were brought in by the administration when classes began on Sept. 7.
Faculty members disgruntled over a disparity in pay between them and their counterparts at LIU-Post in Brookville, Long Island have not voted to strike, but set up an “informational” picket line outside the school’s main entrance at Flatbush and DeKalb avenues on Sept. 7, the first day of fall classes. That same day, LIU’s administration made good on a pledge to bring in replacement teachers.