PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania higher education officials took a contentious pay cut off the table in contract talks with state university faculty on Friday, but the union said it intends to press ahead with a strike authorization vote next week.

The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties said the two sides remain at odds on issues including compensation for temporary instructors, health benefits and online education.

“While there was movement in the new proposal, it was still overwhelmingly concessionary,” the union said. During talks in Harrisburg on Friday, negotiators for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education withdrew a proposal for a 35 percent salary cut for temporary, or adjunct, faculty. Instead, they proposed no change in full-time adjunct salaries while freezing the pay of part-time temporary faculty for the life of the contract. Another negotiating session is set for Dec. 11.

Slippery Rock University is part of the state system. The faculty union has 475 members at SRU.

“We’re committed to staying at the table as long as it takes to get a settlement — hopefully very soon,” system spokesman Kenn Marshall said.

Union members have been working without a contract since June 2011. They are scheduled to hold strike authorization votes at each of the 14 state-owned universities on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

If passed, the vote empowers union chapter presidents at every school to call a strike; 10 of the 14 must approve a walkout. There has never been a faculty strike.

The state had initially sought to cut starting salaries for adjunct faculty from about $44,000 to $29,000 per year, which they said was comparable to pay at peer institutions. The union called the proposal “public assistance level wages.”

The state is still seeking to raise health care deductibles and co-payments in order to lower overall premiums for employees and the system as a whole.