FAM Updates
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FAM-T Bargaining Update for 11/1
The University was “not inclined” to support the request that faculty members be added to the Board of Trustees. They think that faculty would provide no valuable input to the Board, as administrators provide all the academic expertise they need.
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FAM-L Bargaining: Day 2
The second day of librarian negotiations brought loud and clear messages from Management. They formally rejected FAM’s 2% raise MOU – it is clear that they do not value the labor of our librarians and do not feel that they are worth this raise. They claim that academic freedom is a permissive topic of negotiation…
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FAM-T Bargaining Update for 10/25
It is important that faculty retain our full right to determine instructional content. We will continue to push to enshrine academic freedom rights in the contract.
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 4
In other news, there has been no response to the Faculty Assembly petition submitted by 116 faculty to reinstate the All-Faculty Committee on Evaluation of Administrators. Miami policy requires a Faculty Assembly meeting to be held within a month of the petition. That’s by November 13. Faculty are waiting.
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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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Reflections on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
“While we’re here, Miami is what we make it. And if a poor kid from a warring tribe can stand in a classroom here and lecture about the value of remembering whose land we continually build Miami on, we all belong, and we all have a voice, and we all get to tell our story.…
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FAM-L Opens Bargaining
Today marked the first day of negotiations for our FAM Librarians! Following introductions, our team presented an MOU regarding a 2% raise for all librarians in the bargaining unit. They also asked clarifying questions regarding an MOU for restarting paused committees. The University’s team will be returning next session with answers to those questions and…