FAM Updates
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Monday’s Faculty Composition Vote
Tomorrow, senators will take up SR 20-08, a resolution that would remove the cap on the number of TCPL faculty. The administration hopes the new policy will be passed right away. They say hiring needs demand it. But in fact, there is no urgency. Senate can simply move to raise the TCPL cap as a…
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Factcheck on Provost’s TCPL Cap Argument
Yesterday in Senate, the Provost made an argument for abolishing the TCPL cap. (The TCPL cap constrains the number of teaching professors, clinical and professional faculty and lecturers to a percentage of the number of tenure-line faculty). The Provost’s argument failed to mention an important option that would allow us to stand with him in…
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Debating the TCPL Cap
We have permission to share with you a valuable email discussion of SR20-08 by members of Senate. SR20-08 is the resolution that would abolish the cap on TCPL* faculty. We point you particularly to Professor Thesz’s second point and to Professor Coates’ concern about the teacher-scholar model. We’re delighted to see the level of informed…
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Open Letter to Miami Senators
Summary (please read proposed resolutions at end of letter): It’s in everyone’s interest to have more continuing faculty at Miami. But if we abolish the TCPL cap without enacting protections for our teacher-scholar model, we’ll fail to prevent further increases in contingent faculty and we’ll enable further declines in tenure lines. Dear Senators: On Monday, you’ll…
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Alums and parents weigh in on Ibogagate
Here is a short selection of the comments made by alumni and parents on the petition AAUP recently submitted in support of the faculty at risk of being fired in the iboga plant controversy (and in hopes of rehiring the conservatory manager who has already departed). Find out more about the controversy on our In…
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Reporting Arrests Policy: Update & Next Steps
Thanks to your efforts and the fantastic turnout that we had for the Faculty Assembly meeting September 10, the University’s “Reporting Arrests” policy has been put on hold again and sent back to Senate. This is the first time in recent memory, if ever, that the Faculty Assembly has taken a meaningful action to protect the…
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“Ibogagate” Petition Sent — Over 2,300 Signatures!
Yesterday, AAUP Miami submitted a petition asking Miami leadership to reconsider an extraordinary plan to fire two faculty members over their association with an unusual and valuable plant growing in the Conservatory. AAUP’s petition, sent in advance of a faculty hearing on the issue scheduled for late September, also asks for the rehiring of the…
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“Spyami?” More Reasons to Send Back the Reporting Arrests Policy
Colleagues, here are even more reasons for concern about the Reporting Arrests policy. The letter below is from our colleague Daniel Hall, a former dean on the Hamilton campus and a professor of political science specializing in law. Read on and be at Faculty Assembly Tuesday at 4:15 in Shriver Auditorium! Spyami? On April 22,…