RUTGERS University administrators and about 700 of its part-time lecturers have reached a tentative contract agreement. The four-year agreement, reached in September, schedules cumulative pay increases of roughly 25 percent for most of the lecturers. Accordingly, lecturers who teach by the credit will see their pay increase from $1,200 per semester credit this academic year to, incrementally, $1,500 in 2010-11. Lecturers who teach by the hour will receive similar percentage increases.

While the president of the part-time lecturers’ unit, Amy J. Bahruth, called the financial settlement “good” given the state’s financial climate, she said there was widespread disappointment that the university did not consider offering the part-timers health benefits.

“We really think it’s the state’s obligation,” Bahruth said. “If we’re teaching a half a load, we should get benefits.”

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