Tag: budget priorities
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Surviving and Thriving Require Genuine Shared Governance
In this unprecedented crisis, every university in this country will be making painful budgetary decisions. Hard discussions about how to survive and thrive during and after the crisis—examples of generatively difficult shared governance—are underway at many other universities. At Miami, not so, yet. Shared governance is the meaningful participation by faculty in decisions that affect the…
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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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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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Miamians, you’re paying more than Ohio peers for health coverage
Here’s our latest working paper—Part II in a series on Miami’s health plans. (The earlier paper focused on gaps in coverage, such as the fact that there’s no limit on out-of-network costs for Miami employees.) In this paper, you’ll find out that Miami employees generally spend more on health insurance coverage than employees at…
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It’s the end of our first year!
We got a ton done this year. Thank you all for your support. It’s made our work possible. Check out the list of achievements in the Miami Student article “A Year in Review: AAUP Celebrates Accomplishments, Sets Goals.”* Among other things, we’ve successfully pushed for more budget transparency, strongly influenced the position profile used to hire our…
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Response to AAUP Budget Questions
At yesterday’s Senate meeting, Provost Callahan responded to AAUP’s budget questions (which were originally asked at the October budget meeting of University Senate). We will be able to share her presentation when the Senate minutes are published [it is now available and archived on this site here]. Her presentation was chock-full of information and we are…
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Results of AAUP Chapter Faculty Survey
A discussion of faculty morale was the agenda at today’s Faculty Assembly meeting, so it was a good time to release preliminary results of our survey about faculty concerns (you can still take the survey here). The discussion resulted in a commitment from the administration to survey faculty more formally and create an action plan…