MEC PSC Petition For Greater Access to Offices Using the New Electronic Key System
We, the members of the Medgar Evers College/CUNY Professional Staff Congress (PSC) ask for specific changes from the Office of Campus Safety (Campus Safety) with regard to security policies concerning the use of electronic keys that allow staff and faculty to access their individual offices and work spaces.
We note the following as fact:
Where as, in at least three separate meetings, members of the PSC have met with the President and Chief of Security to discuss and resolve issues related to electronic key access; and
Where as, at each of these meetings it was expressed by the Chief of Security that access to offices would be extended and individual office access would be updated and extended; and
Where as, to date, no such changes and no such action has been taken to lengthen the time for accessing departmental or individual offices:
Therefore, we the undersigned, request immediate redress as follows:
1.Campus Safety staff must meet, plan and implement change to address above-described issues;
- 2.Campus Safety must reset the timing of the keys to allow staff and faculty to access their offices during “off-hours” since workflow commitments create situations where access to our offices is vital to work and teaching commitments;
- 3.We recommend that key updating be reset to ninety-days from its current setting of fourteen days;
- 4.Department and individual office access should be set from 7am until midnight each day. Currently, keys are set to open doors on campus from 8am until 11pm;
- 5.Faculty and staff needing weekend access to their departments and individual offices should have their keys coded to allow for such access; and
- 6.We would like to see said changes occur, and access updated, by no later than Friday, November 15, 2015
Members of the PSC understand and acknowledge that a safe and secure campus is in everyone’s best interest. This petition should be seen as part of the open and transparent process to rectify issues on campus safety as they arise.
Cordially,
The Undersigned
Updates
November 5, 2015
The momentum is undeniable. Accountability is the only next step.
13 Comments
These changes should be put into effect right away- I dont see why I have update my key any at all to get into my office, nor do I see why I have to wait until 8 am to enter it, or why do I have to get permission to get into my office or labs on werkends. After all, I am a a full professor and professional chemist.
Security has already coded my key 24/7 because of the hours that I work. Research is not a 9-5 job.
I come to work at 7:45 every morning to find my door locked, and I'm incapable of opening it for 15 minutes. These doors should be accessible 24/7. Any less is intolerable.
I agree and support the change.
And please provide a key charger at the security station in the back of the Bedford building where many enter from the parking lot.
What is the purpose of this electronic monitoring anyway?
This issue has been dicussed at the last two Labor Management session yo no resolution. Now it's time that something substantial be done to this this problem to rest.
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MEC PSC Petition For Greater Access to Offices Using the New Electronic Key System
We, the members of the Medgar Evers College/CUNY Professional Staff Congress (PSC) ask for specific changes from the Office of Campus Safety (Campus Safety) with regard to security policies concerning the use of electronic keys that allow staff and faculty to access their individual offices and work spaces.
We note the following as fact:
Where as, in at least three separate meetings, members of the PSC have met with the President and Chief of Security to discuss and resolve issues related to electronic key access; and
Where as, at each of these meetings it was expressed by the Chief of Security that access to offices would be extended and individual office access would be updated and extended; and
Where as, to date, no such changes and no such action has been taken to lengthen the time for accessing departmental or individual offices:
Therefore, we the undersigned, request immediate redress as follows:
1.Campus Safety staff must meet, plan and implement change to address above-described issues;
- 2.Campus Safety must reset the timing of the keys to allow staff and faculty to access their offices during “off-hours” since workflow commitments create situations where access to our offices is vital to work and teaching commitments;
- 3.We recommend that key updating be reset to ninety-days from its current setting of fourteen days;
- 4.Department and individual office access should be set from 7am until midnight each day. Currently, keys are set to open doors on campus from 8am until 11pm;
- 5.Faculty and staff needing weekend access to their departments and individual offices should have their keys coded to allow for such access; and
- 6.We would like to see said changes occur, and access updated, by no later than Friday, November 15, 2015
Members of the PSC understand and acknowledge that a safe and secure campus is in everyone’s best interest. This petition should be seen as part of the open and transparent process to rectify issues on campus safety as they arise.
Cordially,
The Undersigned
Updates
November 5, 2015
The momentum is undeniable. Accountability is the only next step.
13 Comments
The key issue prevented several members of the Nursing Accreditation Team to our documents room since the keys "time-out" at a particular time. Not good for faculty and staff who are working late.
These changes should be put into effect right away- I dont see why I have update my key any at all to get into my office, nor do I see why I have to wait until 8 am to enter it, or why do I have to get permission to get into my office or labs on werkends. After all, I am a a full professor and professional chemist.
Security has already coded my key 24/7 because of the hours that I work. Research is not a 9-5 job.
I come to work at 7:45 every morning to find my door locked, and I'm incapable of opening it for 15 minutes. These doors should be accessible 24/7. Any less is intolerable.
I agree and support the change.
And please provide a key charger at the security station in the back of the Bedford building where many enter from the parking lot.
What is the purpose of this electronic monitoring anyway?
This issue has been dicussed at the last two Labor Management session yo no resolution. Now it's time that something substantial be done to this this problem to rest.
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The key issue prevented several members of the Nursing Accreditation Team to our documents room since the keys "time-out" at a particular time. Not good for faculty and staff who are working late.