FAM Updates
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Building Better Shared Governance: FAQ
Update 11/19/20: Voting has begun! Vote here ASAP — deadline December 9. We have been assured by Miami’s parliamentarian, Rob Withers, that voting is secure and that he is the only one with access to the voting form and its results (Google Forms was used because the usual Faculty Assembly voting system is only set up…
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Demand Shared Governance and Budget Transparency! Faculty Assembly November 5th
Over a tenth of Miami continuing faculty have signed on to a Faculty Assembly resolution demanding genuine shared governance and budget transparency at Miami. That number triggers the calling of a special Faculty Assembly to discuss the resolution. This is the first time in Miami history faculty have used our right of initiative — our…
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Survey: Faculty workload significantly increased
AAUP Miami recently conducted a survey of faculty on their workload in 2020. During the pandemic, many faculty are experiencing increases in teaching and service, and some are doing uncompensated work. Overall, the survey reveals that faculty are willing to make sacrifices to educate students in the context of a temporary crisis, but fearful that…
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News & Events
UPCOMING EVENTS Friday, August 28, 3:00 pm: Chapter Meeting. RSVP for link: Facebook or miamiaaup@gmail.com Friday, September 4, 3:00 pm: Save Ohio Higher Ed III: Where Does Tuition Go? A student-focused forum on the financial crisis in higher education Tuesday, September 15, 3:30 pm: Forum on Non-Tenure-Track Issues (NTT-led) Friday, September 25, 3:00 pm: Chapter…
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Regional Campuses Are Central to Miami’s Mission, Especially Now
In the context of the coronavirus crisis and the cuts to higher education taking place in Ohio and nationwide, it’s time to reassert the values at the core of Miami University’s commitment to public education: Education is a public good. All students have the right to a quality education, including those under-represented in higher education. …
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Real talk: Why Miami leadership is illogically sunny about safe campus return
We all know that mindfulness about protecting the vulnerable is a big ask to make of young people who want to be at a residential school exactly because they want to have fun together. So R2C is likely to be unsafe for our community no matter how careful we are in the classroom. That’s why…
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Where Life is Precious, Life is Precious: The University as “Community of Care”
In a statement to the Board of Trustees on June 19, 2020, Miami’s Safe Return to Campus Committee says that Miami “needs a community of care” to help us keep one another safe. We agree. Miami AAUP is all for forming communities of care. As Ruth Wilson Gilmore says, “Where life is precious, life is…
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For Survivors’ Sake: End Mandatory Reporting on Sexual Assault and Harassment at Miami
Today, AAUP Regionals Liaison Theresa Kulbaga will deliver a statement to Miami’s Senate today on changes to Title IX and implications for Miami policy. Theresa is an expert on campus sexual assault and, with Leland Spencer, co-author of Campuses of Consent: Sexual and Social Justice in Higher Education (U Mass, 2019). She is Professor in…
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Save Ohio Higher Ed II: Overcoming Inequities
“Save Ohio Higher Ed II: Overcoming Inequities” will take place Friday, June 19, 4pm (register here). The forum will feature the well-known scholar Christopher Newfield on how university budget priorities reinforce racial inequities and how our schools can and should steer clear of austerity cuts. Other guests—including student journalists assaulted by police in recent protests—will…