FAM Updates

  • Miami’s concerning new workload policy

    Miami’s concerning new workload policy

    The new rubric raises expectations for research, scholarship, and creative activity. Faculty who do not meet those increased expectations will be expected to teach more. 

  • FAM-L Bargaining, Day 25

    FAM-L Bargaining, Day 25

    We begin today’s bargaining update with a tribute to Dr. Phill Alexander, your Negotiating Team’s first chair and a lead organizer for FAM. FAM mourns the loss of our beloved colleague, who worked tirelessly on behalf of his colleagues and for a better Miami to help organize and lead our union. Read our tribute to…

  • A Tribute to Dr. Phill Alexander

    A Tribute to Dr. Phill Alexander

    FAM mourns the loss of our beloved colleague and FAM leader, Dr. Phill Alexander. Phill was Assistant Professor of Emerging Technology + Business Design (ETBD) at Miami, a Games Studies professor and scholar and a key architect of the Games + Simulation major. Phill’s teaching and research interests included game studies, Cherokee / Indigenous rhetorics,…

  • Librarians Publish Open Letter to Jerome Conley, Dean of University Libraries

    Librarians Publish Open Letter to Jerome Conley, Dean of University Libraries

    “We are writing to you today to ask you to add your voice to our own: to advocate for us and the resources we need, for the good of our students, our community, the University, and the Libraries.” On November 20, 2024, twenty-five Miami librarians signed an open letter to Jerome Conley, Dean of University…

  • Community programs put at risk by Miami leadership

    Community programs put at risk by Miami leadership

    Long-running community programs in the city of Oxford and beyond are being put at risk by Miami leadership. They are saying that public work is outside the scope of librarian duties. This means librarian services to our local community — work librarians value and love — will end or be radically diminished.

  • FAM-L Bargaining, Day 24

    FAM-L Bargaining, Day 24

    work as many hours as management wants — or leave Today at FAM-L bargaining, management told librarians that working regularly in excess of 40 hours every week is just fine, super normal, and if we don’t like it we can find work elsewhere. This is unacceptable. We voted unanimously to form a union because we…

  • FAM-T Bargaining, Day 31

    FAM-T Bargaining, Day 31

    Thanks to yesterday’s March for Thanks, we won three major agreements on our 439th day without a contract. YOU did this!

  • FAM-T Bargaining, Days 29 & 30

    FAM-T Bargaining, Days 29 & 30

    A special joint bargaining update FAM-T bargained back to back yesterday and today, working hard for our members to get a FAIR CONTRACT NOW. It’s great to see the strong turnout for bargaining yesterday and today! Your visible support of FAM negotiations matters! Download your Stop Stalling Zoom background here: tinyurl.com/StopStall. We passed across Compensation,…

  • FAM-T Bargaining, Day 28

    FAM-T Bargaining, Day 28

    Today was a jam-packed day! We got management to respond on every outstanding article in their court — including Compensation. FAM’s actions over the past month are working, and we are seeing momentum at the table!