Faculty Alliance of Miami: FAM

Tag: membership

  • Speeches from Faculty Assembly

    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,…

  • Welcome Back, FAM!

    Colleagues,  Welcome back, FAM! We’ve had a fabulous summer and hope you have, too! Since winning back-to-back elections in May and June, we’ve been hard at work building our Bargaining Council, curating our Negotiating Team, developing our bargaining platform, and writing proposals that will improve working conditions for faculty and librarians at Miami.  We know…

  • What we’re all about and how to tell your friends

    Do you want to know more about the work our chapter does, or would you like to share information about the chapter with colleagues? We’ve now got a sweet little handout summarizing why we are here and what we do. Speak with any member or write us at miamiaaup@gmail.com to get copies of the below handout to distribute to…

  • 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…

  • New website, new blog, new members

    Hi all, welcome to the new Miami AAUP Chapter blog! Latest news: As of November, we’re up to 84 chapter members. That’s up from only 5 members before our launch just seven months ago, and November was a record month for new members. We appreciate the astonishing amount of support we’ve garnered. 287 people (27% of the…