Inside the offices, the Board of Governors heard from both sides about stalled negotiations.
Gary Dent, Vice Chancellor for Human Resources:
"We've been negotiating now for a couple years. So there's frustration now on both sides, but we have to address current and future costs and we're doing that in these negotiations."
Talks have not progressed since the spring 2011, the last time the faculty had contracts. The protestors say they are upset about health insurance and online education.
The Chair of the state's schools says the health benefits being offered are more generous than that of tens of thousands of other employees.
A possible University strike by faculty has not been ruled out.
"We hope we don't have to disrupt next semester, we don't want to but we would really like to get this deal done," stated Steve Hicks of APSCUF.
This was one of the board of governor's quarterly hearings.
There are roughly 6,000 state school faculty members across the state.