Faculty Alliance of Miami: FAM

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  • FAM’s first year of negotiations

    FAM’s first year of negotiations

    Building our first contracts from scratch is a monumental undertaking, but thanks to the over 60 faculty members and librarians from all divisions and ranks who developed bargaining proposals, already we’ve made significant progress.

  • A Great Day for Miami

    A Great Day for Miami

    Great news! With support from a strong majority of Miami faculty, the Faculty Alliance of Miami (FAM) is thrilled to announce that we have filed to form a union with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). On Friday, June 3rd, we submitted a petition for certification with the Ohio State Employment Relations Board (SERB).…

  • Miami Faculty are Forming a Union!

    Individually, faculty lack the power to change the current situation. But here’s the good news: together, you and your colleagues can change the balance. And an overwhelming majority of you told us you strongly support organizing a union! The time has come to join the 10 unionized public universities in Ohio–and to fight to save…

  • Fall Update: The Pandemic Continues, Our Power Grows

    Fall Update: The Pandemic Continues, Our Power Grows

    Happy Labor Day, Miami colleagues! During this global pandemic and the unprecedented degradation in working and educational conditions in 2020- 2021, your Miami AAUP chapter has redoubled its efforts to assure high-quality education and faculty welfare, support academic freedom, advance the economic and professional status of the entire faculty, and represent an independent faculty voice…

  • Faculty: Voted 95% In Favor Of Improving Shared Governance. Provost & Board: Claim Miami “Exceeds” Shared Governance Norms

    Faculty: Voted 95% In Favor Of Improving Shared Governance. Provost & Board: Claim Miami “Exceeds” Shared Governance Norms

    Back in Fall of 2020, 95% of faculty voted to support the AAUP’s two-part Faculty Assembly Resolution on Shared Governance. Sadly, the Board of Trustees has now declined to take action on either of the Resolution’s requests to improve shared governance. It first refused to support adding faculty as nonvoting members. Now, it has decided…

  • 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…

  • 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…