Tag: COVID-19
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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…
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Statement on Miami’s COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
We appreciate that Miami University has followed other Ohio colleges and universities by mandating COVID-19 vaccination for all students and employees. A successful academic year will be impossible if we cannot protect the health of our students, staff, faculty, and community. The most effective way to protect against severe illness is by vaccinating all members…
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A Call for Action: Love and Honor is a Matter of Public Health
As a public university, Miami has a responsibility to lead our community through the pandemic by promoting public health information and best practices. But despite the approaching return of students and start of classes, Miami University leadership has yet to release a COVID safety plan for the Fall 2021 semester. We are hearing from worried…
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Was it dangerous to keep the dorms open?
Did in-person teaching prove to be as dangerous as some feared? Was it dangerous to keep residence halls open? The CDC has weighed in with a new report on university-related COVID transmission, and the answer, in short, is yes. The figures are scary: “Among counties with large colleges and universities…, remote-instruction university counties experienced a…
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Real talk: Why Miami leadership is illogically sunny about safe campus return
We all know that mindfulness about protecting the vulnerable is a big ask to make of young people who want to be at a residential school exactly because they want to have fun together. So R2C is likely to be unsafe for our community no matter how careful we are in the classroom. That’s why…
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Where Life is Precious, Life is Precious: The University as “Community of Care”
In a statement to the Board of Trustees on June 19, 2020, Miami’s Safe Return to Campus Committee says that Miami “needs a community of care” to help us keep one another safe. We agree. Miami AAUP is all for forming communities of care. As Ruth Wilson Gilmore says, “Where life is precious, life is…