Faculty Alliance of Miami: FAM

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  • Now available: Provost’s presentation on AAUP budget questions

    So that our chapter membership and others will have easy access to it, we’re posting Provost Callahan’s April 11 Senate presentation on the AAUP budget questions here. We look forward to your comments and questions about the information on the slides and what still needs to be answered. Our first quick take on the questions is…

  • Response to AAUP Budget Questions

    At yesterday’s Senate meeting, Provost Callahan responded to AAUP’s budget questions (which were originally asked at the October budget meeting of University Senate). We will be able to share her presentation when the Senate minutes are published [it is now available and archived on this site here]. Her presentation was chock-full of information and we are…

  • New Working Paper on Miami’s Health Insurance Plans

    Did you know? Compared to the health plans of other Ohio public universities, Miami University’s plans are unusually harsh in the extent to which they penalize employees who receive health services from non-network providers. Compared to our state peer schools, Miami University is a complete outlier in failing to place any cap on employee expenditures…

  • AAUP-AFSCME Solidarity Meeting, April 5

    We’re having a meeting/party to support Miami’s hardworking physical facilities staff as they prepare to renegotiate their contract. They keep campus safe, clean and beautiful; faculty and students benefit from their work every day. Meanwhile, their numbers have been slashed so they all have more work to do, they are frequently denied holiday requests and…

  • Contingent faculty groups forming at MU

    Precarious careers are more and more common in academe. At Miami, rising enrollments and austere hiring policies have led to an extraordinary ballooning in the number of non-tenure-line faculty, especially VAPs, over the last ten years—a rise of 108%, according to data Miami reported to the federal government (180% if you count only faculty on one-year contracts). Given its…

  • What’s Miami spending the most on?

    Our chapter has begun commissioning a series of working papers on the state of Miami. The first, on Miami University Economic and Financial Trends, is by economics professor James Brock. The trends are worth noting. As a comparison, bear in mind that the Consumer Price Index rose by 48% in the last ten years. Meanwhile, at Miami: Total costs…

  • Miami’s Presidential Finalist: Statement

    Yesterday, Miami’s AAUP Advocacy chapter released this statement on Miami’s presidential search and the just-announced finalist, Gregory Crawford: The Executive Committee of the Miami University AAUP Advocacy Chapter has worked to promote the hiring of a new president who would commit to a set of objectives. As enunciated last August and approved by the membership, here are…

  • Results of AAUP Chapter Faculty Survey

    A discussion of faculty morale was the agenda at today’s Faculty Assembly meeting, so it was a good time to release preliminary results of our survey about faculty concerns (you can still take the survey here). The discussion resulted in a commitment from the administration to survey faculty more formally and create an action plan…

  • New website, new blog, new members

    Hi all, welcome to the new Miami AAUP Chapter blog! Latest news: As of November, we’re up to 84 chapter members. That’s up from only 5 members before our launch just seven months ago, and November was a record month for new members. We appreciate the astonishing amount of support we’ve garnered. 287 people (27% of the…