Author: Cathy Wagner
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“Collaboration is our best path forward”—Kazue Harada
I implore Miami’s administrative leaders to recognize the energy and passion shown by our faculty and union members to attend this meeting as a resource and sign of hope for Miami’s future, not obstacles.
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Speeches from Faculty Assembly
What a turnout yesterday for Faculty Assembly! 102 Benton was filled and the mood was buoyant. If you were there yesterday, talk to your colleagues about what you heard and about the powerful feeling of being a faculty united. And make sure to vote. Ballots will be distributed by email soon. Over a dozen tenured, librarian,…
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Theresa Kulbaga: “Shutting down this committee sends a clear signal”
“[You’re using] collective bargaining as an excuse to shut down a longstanding shared governance committee that seeks faculty feedback about our administrators. Shutting down opportunities to collaborate with faculty, to listen to our concerns and our ideas. It’s disappointing. It makes me sad. And it doesn’t have to be that way.”
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Kate Rousmaniere: “I support FAM, particularly in the face of what I see as declining faculty input”
I served on the Committee for the Evaluation of Administrators for five years between 2003 + 2008. At some point I co-chaired the Committee with Professor John Heyda from Middletown campus. The Committee was elected by our peers in Faculty Assembly—representing each academic division and the libraries. As Department Chair during those years, I…
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Shashi Lalvani: “Top 10 Reasons Why We Should Evaluate Administrators”
The administration’s “rationale” for terminating the process of evaluating administrators is as follows: Since FAM represents faculty for negotiations related to wages and employment, and therefore, Miami may not engage in soliciting individual faculty input. This has no legal, rational, or moral standing. As you will note, it says “may not engage..,” but does not…