Tag: Board of Trustees
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The Board of Trustees heard loud and clear: “Work With Us Not Against Us”
Standing room only at the Board of Trustees meeting today! A room packed full of FAM-supportive faculty and librarians clapped loudly to celebrate colleagues’ promotions and even louder and longer for the speeches telling the Board that it’s time to Work With Us, Not Against Us.
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Why Students Support FAM—Dylan Halpin
“For students, our professors hold a special place in our hearts.”
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“It’s time to work with us, not against us”—John Schaefer
FAM was the largest higher ed union formed last year in AAUP-AFT. FAM successfully organized more people than any other effort in the largest higher ed union organization in the country.
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“Work-life balance that allows us to serve our students”—Jenny Presnell
To devalue our scholarship and teaching affects the quality of education we all provide to Miami students.
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“Include faculty…to make tough decisions wisely”—Kate Rousmaniere
Some of [the majors being cut] cost the university nothing…By cutting such majors, all Miami would lose would be students interested in those programs.
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“Collaboration is our best path forward”—Kazue Harada
I implore Miami’s administrative leaders to recognize the energy and passion shown by our faculty and union members to attend this meeting as a resource and sign of hope for Miami’s future, not obstacles.
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Speeches from Faculty Assembly
What a turnout yesterday for Faculty Assembly! 102 Benton was filled and the mood was buoyant. If you were there yesterday, talk to your colleagues about what you heard and about the powerful feeling of being a faculty united. And make sure to vote. Ballots will be distributed by email soon. Over a dozen tenured, librarian,…
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Trustees Block Shared Governance Committee
We write with a followup from today’s bargaining session about the All-Faculty Committee for the Evaluation of Administration of Administrators. After changing its story twice (first time: “we must pause committee until bargaining”; second time: “we can’t bargain about committee because it’s a shared governance issue”) — university management has arrived at a third way to get…