FAM Updates
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Sign Petition to Miami Community: Solidarity Against Hate
Faculty, students, staff, alums—please sign the below petition now to support, defend and stand strong for all those among us who may already be suffering from the normalization of hate. Let’s build not walls but bridges of love across all parts of the Miami community. Text of petition: To the Miami University Community: We strongly…
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Solidarity Against Hate
The AAUP Advocacy Chapter at Miami University strongly condemns both the recent posting of white supremacist flyers at Miami and the growing national “watchlist” of faculty members with a supposedly anti-American agenda. We look forward to partnering with our colleagues and students in active, vigilant solidarity against hate on our campus. We urge the university administration…
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“Bottom line: Less than 33 cents of every dollar spent is for faculty pay”
On November 11, Vice-President David Creamer and Provost Phyllis Callahan gave the second annual Senate Budget Presentation. (We hope the administration will continue this tradition.) We received a response to the presentation from James Brock, Moeckel Professor of Economics at Miami, and he’s given us permission us to share it. The main takeaway: “The information…create[s] the…
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Miami & Your Money 2016
Chapter Director of Research David Walsh, with the help of co-president Cathy Wagner, gave an in-depth and fascinating presentation tonight sharing new data gathered by the chapter and giving a faculty-view perspective on salaries, benefits, and staffing at Miami. Highlights: • Large administrative raises over the last ten years as compared to faculty raises (some…
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Report on Fall Action Meeting, Sept 20
Thanks all for a great first meeting of the semester. Barely enough chairs! we will get a bigger room next time. In case you missed it, we covered: – The budget crisis the library is facing because of significant cutbacks and fast-rising costs – More generally, RCM budgeting’s harsh treatment of units that don’t generate income,…
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What we’re all about and how to tell your friends
Do you want to know more about the work our chapter does, or would you like to share information about the chapter with colleagues? We’ve now got a sweet little handout summarizing why we are here and what we do. Speak with any member or write us at miamiaaup@gmail.com to get copies of the below handout to distribute to…
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Fall Action Meeting & New Faculty Welcome
Come on out to our first meeting of the year, Wednesday, September 21 at 5:30pm in 46 Irvin. Meet the new chapter leadership, find out what’s simmering and help decide our priorities for the year.
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Latest news from Senate
Here are our latest reports from University Senate. August 29, 2016 report Highlights: – President’s and Provost’s priorities for the year – new faculty dining area in Belltower (there have been some issues with the space, but we hear that Belltower is working on making sure the area is available only to faculty and we…
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Budget debacle hurting students up the road
Ahead of the terrible Wright State budget cuts, their AAUP Chapter gave some wise advice to the board that every board in the country (not to mention the US presidential candidates soon to debate one another at WSU) should hear: “We are concerned about the opaque way in which the budgetary issues have been presented,…