Faculty Alliance of Miami: FAM

FAM Updates

  • Elena Jackson Albarrán: “New proposed workload norms put [Miami’s] teacher-scholar balance in peril”

    Elena Jackson Albarrán: “New proposed workload norms put [Miami’s] teacher-scholar balance in peril”

    A literal application of the current workload metric as it stands would radically destabilize the educational ecosystem that we have now.  A more tempered, sensitive model needs to be developed in collaboration with faculty as part of shared governance.

  • 100+ Faculty and Librarians Demand a Fair Contract Now at the Board of Trustees Meeting

    100+ Faculty and Librarians Demand a Fair Contract Now at the Board of Trustees Meeting

    Faculty and librarians handed out holiday cards to Miami’s trustees while chanting “FAIR CONTRACT NOW” on our 471st day of negotiations. Speakers pointed out that the University’s current spending priorities hurt students by diverting large sums from academics to outside consultants, new sports arenas, and outside legal counsel.

  • FAM-L Bargaining, Day 26

    FAM-L Bargaining, Day 26

    Huge Win on Vacation Pay! Thanks to FAM, all Miami staff will now be paid during holiday closings instead of having to take mandatory vacation days. FAM and Miami management today signed a landmark agreement ensuring fair pay for mandatory closing days during Winter Break.

  • Will legal trouble for Miami’s outside counsel create further delays?

    Will legal trouble for Miami’s outside counsel create further delays?

    By now, members of our community may have heard the news that management’s lead lawyer on the FAM-T side has stepped away and will soon be replaced. FAM, AAUP-AFT has been negotiating with Miami University for almost 470 days. In that time, we have faced numerous delays on the part of the university. We hope…

  • FAM-T Bargaining, Day 33

    FAM-T Bargaining, Day 33

    By now, you may have seen the news that management’s lead lawyer on the FAM-T side has stepped away, and will soon be replaced. Read FAM’s statement … Today at FAM-T bargaining, we had many surprisingly productive conversations with management about your top priorities: compensation and job security. FAM began the day by countering on…

  • MU spent $7.29 million on outside consultant while denying raises

    MU spent $7.29 million on outside consultant while denying raises

    at the same time they were denying faculty and librarians raises, management paid an outside consulting firm, Bain & Company, $7.29 million. For that money, they could have paid you and your colleagues the raises they denied you in 2023-24 and 2024-25 and walked away with almost $2 million in change.

  • FAM-T Bargaining, Day 32

    FAM-T Bargaining, Day 32

    Your Negotiation Team continues to fight for fair evaluations, job security, and benefits for our members. At FAM-T bargaining today, we countered on Leaves, Benefits, Financial Exigency and Academic Reorganization, and presented packages on Faculty Evaluations & Performance Improvement Plans, and Management Rights & Association Rights. These proposals protect our members’ benefits and job security…

  • 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…