FAM Updates
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March 4th Day of Action
March 4 is a nationwide AFT day of action to protect our communities and fight for a better life for all—for opportunity, freedom, safety and affordability. FAM’s Southwest Ohio Labor Coalition held a press conference and rally at Levine Park in front of UC Medical Center, where FAM President Theresa Kulbaga (TK) and leaders from…
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Pixie Menezes: “Democracy is built from the bottom up.”
Pixie delivered this speech at the FAM+OSA Public Town Hall on Feb 6, 2026. Hey guys! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Pixie Menezes. I am an undergraduate senior studying organizational leadership and sociology. I am also the statewide communications director for the College Democrats of Ohio. INFORM When we…
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Dr. Theresa Kulbaga: “hope is a practice”
TK delivered this speech at the FAM+OSA Public Town Hall on Feb 6, 2026. Hi everyone, I’m TK and I’m the president of FAM, Miami’s faculty and librarian union. I’m also a regional faculty member who is seeing regional campus faculty and students abandoned as the university turns us into a technical school. Across Miami…
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FAM is Building Coalitions across Campus and the State — and it’s working
Working together = more power for all Thursday, February 19, 2026 You likely know about the collective work we do together as FAM: negotiating on your top priorities, winning fair contracts, taking action to protect our members, and holding management to the CBA when they violate its terms. But did you know that FAM has…
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HB 698: Call to Action
What to know, and what you can do, about the draconian new SB 1 compliance bill. Last week, Republican Representative Tom Young introduced HB 698 the Enact the S.B. 1 Compliance Supplemental Appropriation Act. This legislation continues the attack on higher education that SB 1 started, implementing a series of regressive policies to go after…
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“We can no longer deliver what Miami promises.”
Cathy Wagner to the Board of Trustees December 12, 2025 Chair Schell, members of the board, happy holidays. My name is Cathy Wagner. Next year will be my 20th year as a proud Miami faculty member. For two decades at Make It Miami events, I told students and parents: “It’s true, Miami faculty really get…
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FAM Statement: Miami University Must Not Rely on SciVal
November 1, 2025 The Faculty Alliance of Miami (FAM, AAUP-AFT Local 375) issues this statement to express its reservations about the use of the SciVal database to measure faculty’s scholarly productivity and, in turn, to use that data as part of departmental budgeting through RCM 4.0. Below we outline our specific concerns: 1) SciVal is…
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FAM Statement on Regional Restructuring: The Liberal Arts Are the Beating Heart of the Polytechnic
October 31, 2025 Miami University management’s decision to rebrand Miami Regionals as a Polytechnic took regional faculty and students by surprise. This top-down decision by the Board of Trustees is now being hastily implemented through a two-month restructuring process that will radically transform our university and our students’ education. If we are to be a…
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FAM Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
Miami University must reject the compact. October 14, 2025 The Faculty Alliance of Miami (FAM, AAUP-AFT, Local 375) was alarmed to read reports that — after MIT’s rejection of the federal government’s so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” along with the threat of other universities’ rejection of the compact — the Trump administration…