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Regional Campuses Are Central to Miami’s Mission, Especially Now
In the context of the coronavirus crisis and the cuts to higher education taking place in Ohio and nationwide, it’s time to reassert the values at the core of Miami University’s commitment to public education: Education is a public good. All students have the right to a quality education, including those under-represented in higher education. …
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Real talk: Why Miami leadership is illogically sunny about safe campus return
We all know that mindfulness about protecting the vulnerable is a big ask to make of young people who want to be at a residential school exactly because they want to have fun together. So R2C is likely to be unsafe for our community no matter how careful we are in the classroom. That’s why…
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Where Life is Precious, Life is Precious: The University as “Community of Care”
In a statement to the Board of Trustees on June 19, 2020, Miami’s Safe Return to Campus Committee says that Miami “needs a community of care” to help us keep one another safe. We agree. Miami AAUP is all for forming communities of care. As Ruth Wilson Gilmore says, “Where life is precious, life is…
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For Survivors’ Sake: End Mandatory Reporting on Sexual Assault and Harassment at Miami
Today, AAUP Regionals Liaison Theresa Kulbaga will deliver a statement to Miami’s Senate today on changes to Title IX and implications for Miami policy. Theresa is an expert on campus sexual assault and, with Leland Spencer, co-author of Campuses of Consent: Sexual and Social Justice in Higher Education (U Mass, 2019). She is Professor in…
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Save Ohio Higher Ed II: Overcoming Inequities
“Save Ohio Higher Ed II: Overcoming Inequities” will take place Friday, June 19, 4pm (register here). The forum will feature the well-known scholar Christopher Newfield on how university budget priorities reinforce racial inequities and how our schools can and should steer clear of austerity cuts. Other guests—including student journalists assaulted by police in recent protests—will…
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Solidarity, mourning, and “furious flowering”
Miami AAUP stands in solidarity with protesters denouncing the racist structures that create “group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death” for Black and brown people. We mourn the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the Black victims of police or extralegal violence in our own area whose killers remain unpunished—John Crawford (2014), QuanDavier Hicks (2015), Sam…
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Protecting Lives, Promoting Education: Safe Choices for Campus Reopening
Faculty, Staff, Students Should Have the Right to Teach, Learn, and Work Remotely Dear President, Provost, Board of Trustees and Miami University community: We are grateful to colleagues serving on committees charged with developing safe options for returning to campus in fall semester. They face extraordinary challenges. According to many experts, even with personal protective…
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“Save Ohio Higher Ed!”: Inter-university forum
Higher Education across the state of Ohio is under threat. Join Miami AAUP and your colleagues at Ohio State University and Ohio University, who want to learn more about what is happening at Miami and share what is happening there (e.g., layoffs of tenure-track and contingent faculty at OU). Together, we will strategize about how we…
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“My life here has been put on a timer”: Studies in Precarity
In solidarity and gratitude, we are sharing a series—”Studies in Precarity”—of stories from departing contingent faculty, who still have much to teach us. Scores, perhaps over 200, of Miami contingent faculty have received notices of non-renewal for 2020–21. Many may soon find themselves unemployed and without health insurance in the middle of a pandemic and…