FAM Updates
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A successful resolution to the Wright State strike!
Miami AAUP congratulates our tough colleagues down the road at Wright State on a successful resolution to their three-week strike. Read more about the negotiations and resolution here.
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Update on Important Senate Academic Freedom Actions
Last year, University Senate passed two important resolutions supported by AAUP. We have news for you on both fronts. One (18.11) was to update Miami Policy to protect tenure and ensure academic freedom and due process rights for non-tenure-line faculty. The other (18.12) requested the formation of an ad-hoc committee to make recommendations on faculty composition and to…
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How to support non-tenure-track faculty at department level
We’ve just shared an important document with all chairs and program directors at Miami: Supporting NTT Faculty: Considerations for Departments and Programs. Please talk to your departmental leadership and ask that it be discussed. Non-tenure-track faculty across all divisions and ranks were involved in the development of “Supporting NTT Faculty.” It addresses essential issues affecting non-tenure…
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It’s time to update Miami’s commitment to academic freedom
[UPDATE 10pm Thursday 5/17/18: We were informed this afternoon that the Board of Trustees will not be discussing or voting on the academic freedom resolution, SR 18–11, at tomorrow’s meeting. SR 18-11 will appear on a report on the Board’s agenda (a report that also includes the LCPL cap change and LCPL promotion resolutions), but…
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What happened after the last LCPL cap increase?
Miami AAUP appreciates the arguments made in favor of increasing the cap on non-tenure-line continuing faculty from 20% to 25% of the number of tenured/tenure-track faculty. But good decisions are informed by history, so before voting, the community should consider what happened last time and vote to amend the current cap change resolution. In 2010,…
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“Monday’s meeting was nothing short of electrifying”
Here’s a letter to Miami AAUP members from our secretary, Deborah Lyons, on the Senate meeting April 30 at which the chapter passed resolutions on academic freedom and due process with overwhelming support: Dear Colleagues and Friends, I don’t usually use the words “Senate meeting” and “exciting” in the same sentence, but Monday’s meeting was nothing short…
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Tenure-line and non-tenure-line at Miami: the real numbers
Minutes posted this week for the April 23, 2018 meeting of Senate contained a significant correction. A chart on overall full-time faculty distribution that had been handed out at the meeting seemed to show that tenure-line hiring was trending up significantly. The correction in the minutes shows that that is not the case. Tenure-line numbers…
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Temporarily disabled staff member lost pay, is out of sick leave
The below was shared with us by a Miami staff member: Your latest example of “For Love and Honor?” My mom was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in February 2016. Her first chemo treatment was 2/29/2016, and she responded well. Her second chemotherapy treatment was March 21. She was admitted to the hospital on March 28 and…
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“Torn Between Two Worlds”: A VAP’s Story
We are reposting in its entirety this article about Miami Visiting Assistant Professor Karim Ibrahim, which appears in today’s issue of the Miami Student. Warning: it’s a heartbreaker. It’s hard to imagine a story that better illustrates the risks of contingent faculty precarity and how those risks are multiplied for those without citizenship status. As…