Category: Uncategorized
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John Schaefer: “Unnecessary hangups like these are why we aren’t finished with this first contract”
Our members are getting frustrated and angry over delays and lack of respect from university administration. We are willing to work through the winter break to finish this contract. We ask the board to direct your team to meet with us again this month so we can make progress.
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Cathy Wagner: “How much employee time is being spent in correcting unreliable data and mistaken assumptions?”
Is it good stewardship to construct budgets that starve our core academic mission of funds? Year on year, we hear of deficits in the Academic Affairs budget that require cuts. But year on year, when we move from budget to actuals, we find that we’re running large surpluses and the “deficit” has vanished.
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Melanie Ziegler: “Possible desecration of iconic green space has brought me to my first-ever Trustees Meeting”
The very thought of such a possible desecration of the most iconic green space and soul of this university is what has brought me here to attend my first ever Trustees meeting and to appeal to your better judgment.
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Ken Irwin: “Before slashing what serves this institution and its students, understand what you stand to lose”
We are told that it’s ok if we’re routinely working 60 or 70 hour weeks, and that we can leave if we don’t like it. Is this how you retain a great library staff?
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![Elena Jackson Albarrán: “New proposed workload norms put [Miami’s] teacher-scholar balance in peril”](https://famiami.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_2492-scaled.jpg)
Elena Jackson Albarrán: “New proposed workload norms put [Miami’s] teacher-scholar balance in peril”
A literal application of the current workload metric as it stands would radically destabilize the educational ecosystem that we have now. A more tempered, sensitive model needs to be developed in collaboration with faculty as part of shared governance.
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Will legal trouble for Miami’s outside counsel create further delays?
By now, members of our community may have heard the news that management’s lead lawyer on the FAM-T side has stepped away and will soon be replaced. FAM, AAUP-AFT has been negotiating with Miami University for almost 470 days. In that time, we have faced numerous delays on the part of the university. We hope…
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MU spent $7.29 million on outside consultant while denying raises
at the same time they were denying faculty and librarians raises, management paid an outside consulting firm, Bain & Company, $7.29 million. For that money, they could have paid you and your colleagues the raises they denied you in 2023-24 and 2024-25 and walked away with almost $2 million in change.
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Miami’s concerning new workload policy
The new rubric raises expectations for research, scholarship, and creative activity. Faculty who do not meet those increased expectations will be expected to teach more.
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A Tribute to Dr. Phill Alexander
FAM mourns the loss of our beloved colleague and FAM leader, Dr. Phill Alexander. Phill was Assistant Professor of Emerging Technology + Business Design (ETBD) at Miami, a Games Studies professor and scholar and a key architect of the Games + Simulation major. Phill’s teaching and research interests included game studies, Cherokee / Indigenous rhetorics,…