Tag: Miami non-renewals
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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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News & Events
UPCOMING EVENTS Friday, August 28, 3:00 pm: Chapter Meeting. RSVP for link: Facebook or miamiaaup@gmail.com Friday, September 4, 3:00 pm: Save Ohio Higher Ed III: Where Does Tuition Go? A student-focused forum on the financial crisis in higher education Tuesday, September 15, 3:30 pm: Forum on Non-Tenure-Track Issues (NTT-led) Friday, September 25, 3:00 pm: Chapter…
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Regional Campuses Are Central to Miami’s Mission, Especially Now
In the context of the coronavirus crisis and the cuts to higher education taking place in Ohio and nationwide, it’s time to reassert the values at the core of Miami University’s commitment to public education: Education is a public good. All students have the right to a quality education, including those under-represented in higher education. …
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“Save Ohio Higher Ed!”: Inter-university forum
Higher Education across the state of Ohio is under threat. Join Miami AAUP and your colleagues at Ohio State University and Ohio University, who want to learn more about what is happening at Miami and share what is happening there (e.g., layoffs of tenure-track and contingent faculty at OU). Together, we will strategize about how we…
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“My life here has been put on a timer”: Studies in Precarity
In solidarity and gratitude, we are sharing a series—”Studies in Precarity”—of stories from departing contingent faculty, who still have much to teach us. Scores, perhaps over 200, of Miami contingent faculty have received notices of non-renewal for 2020–21. Many may soon find themselves unemployed and without health insurance in the middle of a pandemic and…
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“The face of the social dance program for 17 years”: Studies in Precarity
In solidarity and gratitude, we are sharing a series—”Studies in Precarity”—of stories from departing contingent faculty, who still have much to teach us. Scores, perhaps over 200, of Miami contingent faculty have received notices of non-renewal for 2020–21. Many may soon find themselves unemployed and without health insurance in the middle of a pandemic and…
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“I was so active in service on campus that I won two service awards”: Studies in Precarity
In solidarity and gratitude, we are sharing a series—”Studies in Precarity”—of stories from departing contingent faculty, who still have much to teach us. Scores, perhaps over 200, of Miami contingent faculty have received notices of non-renewal for 2020–21. Many may soon find themselves unemployed and without health insurance in the middle of a pandemic and…
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“I ran a very successful research center that involved more than 70 students…it will close down”: Studies in Precarity
In solidarity and gratitude, we are sharing a series—”Studies in Precarity”—of stories from departing contingent faculty, who still have much to teach us. Scores, perhaps over 200, of Miami contingent faculty have received notices of non-renewal for 2020–21. Many may soon find themselves unemployed and without health insurance in the middle of a pandemic and…
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“The die is cast: my retirement is gutted”: Studies in Precarity
In solidarity and gratitude, we are sharing a series—”Studies in Precarity”—of stories from departing contingent faculty, who still have much to teach us. Scores, perhaps over 200, of Miami contingent faculty have received notices of non-renewal for 2020–21. Many may soon find themselves unemployed and without health insurance in the middle of a pandemic and…