Charlie McAteer of Stony Brook discusses the issue of job security during the initial meeting of the new UUP Vice Presidents for Professionals Steering Committee. Several members of the committee were in attendance: from left, statewide Vice President for Professionals Philippe Abraham, Jeri O’Bryan-Losee of Morrisville, McAteer and Norm Payne of Oneonta.

The committee’s two-day retreat January 11-12 focused on a number of concerns raised by professional members and how to address them. Besides job security, those concerns include workload creep, evaluation and promotion, the participation by professionals in shared governance and part-time/contingent professionals issues, among others.