Faculty Alliance of Miami: FAM

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  • On the immigrant question: The production of fear is an industry that serves private interests

    For all my friends in the university community and elsewhere who are more vulnerable under the new order—and for all those who are not their friends: Whatever your feelings about the increasingly anti-immigrant efforts of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it’s worth considering another period of our history when our democratic future hung…

  • #NoBanNoWall

    Our international students, staff, and colleagues, regardless of their immigration status, are part of our community. Our community must make every effort to keep them safe, free, and able to pursue their studies. Please join our chapter in support of international students and in protest of Donald Trump’s recent executive order. What you can do:…

  • Action Alert: “Guns Everywhere” Bill

    Members and friends, we hope you will call your Senators to tell them *NO on HB 48*, the “Guns Everywhere” bill allowing concealed carry on campus. The bill was not passed this week as expected, but will likely be passed next week, perhaps with amendments that would make it impossible for institutions to reduce the…

  • Sign Petition to Miami Community: Solidarity Against Hate

    Faculty, students, staff, alums—please sign the below petition now to support, defend and stand strong for all those among us who may already be suffering from the normalization of hate. Let’s build not walls but bridges of love across all parts of the Miami community. Text of petition: To the Miami University Community: We strongly…

  • Solidarity Against Hate

    The AAUP Advocacy Chapter at Miami University strongly condemns both the recent posting of white supremacist flyers at Miami and the growing national “watchlist” of faculty members with a supposedly anti-American agenda. We look forward to partnering with our colleagues and students in active, vigilant solidarity against hate on our campus. We urge the university administration…

  • “Bottom line: Less than 33 cents of every dollar spent is for faculty pay”

    On November 11, Vice-President David Creamer and Provost Phyllis Callahan gave the second annual Senate Budget Presentation. (We hope the administration will continue this tradition.) We received a response to the presentation from James Brock, Moeckel Professor of Economics at Miami, and he’s given us permission us to share it. The main takeaway: “The information…create[s] the…

  • Miami & Your Money 2016

      Chapter Director of Research David Walsh, with the help of co-president Cathy Wagner, gave an in-depth and fascinating presentation tonight sharing new data gathered by the chapter and giving a faculty-view perspective on salaries, benefits, and staffing at Miami. Highlights: • Large administrative raises over the last ten years as compared to faculty raises (some…

  • Report on Fall Action Meeting, Sept 20

    Thanks all for a great first meeting of the semester. Barely enough chairs! we will get a bigger room next time. In case you missed it, we covered: – The budget crisis the library is facing because of significant cutbacks and fast-rising costs – More generally, RCM budgeting’s harsh treatment of units that don’t generate income,…

  • What we’re all about and how to tell your friends

    Do you want to know more about the work our chapter does, or would you like to share information about the chapter with colleagues? We’ve now got a sweet little handout summarizing why we are here and what we do. Speak with any member or write us at miamiaaup@gmail.com to get copies of the below handout to distribute to…