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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…
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Ron Becker: Ending feedback on admin shows “serious fragility of leadership”
I am currently serving on two committees that are grappling with how parts of Miami might need to change–perhaps profoundly—in response to the emerging conditions in higher ed and at Miami. I am convinced that those challenges are real and serious. And to be frank, I am worried. This is not a manufactured crisis. The…
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Cathy Wagner: “A strong organization is made stronger when it seeks constructive feedback from all its stakeholders.”
Hello colleagues, I’m Cathy Wagner, professor from the English Department. I am a three-term member of Senate, currently serving as elected member at large, and a former elected member of the All-Faculty Committee for Evaluation of Administrators. I’m also a proud organizer for the Faculty Alliance of Miami. First, I know you all have many…
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“This is not right”: Ginny Boehme at Faculty Assembly
As mentioned by Cathy, one of the reasons (out of the many) that we have heard as to why this committee was shut down was the concern over direct dealing. To be clear, it’s a ridiculous argument. But it’s one that admin is sticking with so let’s explore it a bit more. At the bargaining…
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Trustees Block Shared Governance Committee
We write with a followup from today’s bargaining session about the All-Faculty Committee for the Evaluation of Administration of Administrators. After changing its story twice (first time: “we must pause committee until bargaining”; second time: “we can’t bargain about committee because it’s a shared governance issue”) — university management has arrived at a third way to get…
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Faculty Petition to Reinstate Shared Governance Committee
“Resolved, that the Faculty Assembly demands the immediate reinstatement of the All-Faculty Committee for Evaluation of Administrators as well as any similar divisional and departmental administrator evaluation committees that have been suspended.”
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Welcome Back, FAM!
Colleagues, Welcome back, FAM! We’ve had a fabulous summer and hope you have, too! Since winning back-to-back elections in May and June, we’ve been hard at work building our Bargaining Council, curating our Negotiating Team, developing our bargaining platform, and writing proposals that will improve working conditions for faculty and librarians at Miami. We know…
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FAM-LIBRARIANS VOICE IS UNANIMOUS #unionyes!
FAM-ily were in Columbus this morning for the Librarian’s Unit vote count at the State Employment Relations Board. The count took only 15 minutes and the results were amazing. The vote was 28-0 on 90% turnout. Here’s the full Twitter thread of the morning’s news. More details coming tomorrow! #FAMLibrarians won their unit UNANIMOUSLY in a…
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Bargaining & Raises: What You Need to Know
Miami’s TCPL and tenured, and tenure-track faculty have won the right to collectively bargain through FAM, and librarians are not far behind. Bargaining will start soon! FAM has already contacted Miami University to express our intent to bargain. For a strong contract, it’s important that as many colleagues as possible are informed and involved in…