Tag: shared governance
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Shashi Lalvani: “Top 10 Reasons Why We Should Evaluate Administrators”
The administration’s “rationale” for terminating the process of evaluating administrators is as follows: Since FAM represents faculty for negotiations related to wages and employment, and therefore, Miami may not engage in soliciting individual faculty input. This has no legal, rational, or moral standing. As you will note, it says “may not engage..,” but does not…
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FAM-L Bargaining: Day 2
The second day of librarian negotiations brought loud and clear messages from Management. They formally rejected FAM’s 2% raise MOU – it is clear that they do not value the labor of our librarians and do not feel that they are worth this raise. They claim that academic freedom is a permissive topic of negotiation…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 4
In other news, there has been no response to the Faculty Assembly petition submitted by 116 faculty to reinstate the All-Faculty Committee on Evaluation of Administrators. Miami policy requires a Faculty Assembly meeting to be held within a month of the petition. That’s by November 13. Faculty are waiting.
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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…
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Faculty Petition to Reinstate Shared Governance Committee
“Resolved, that the Faculty Assembly demands the immediate reinstatement of the All-Faculty Committee for Evaluation of Administrators as well as any similar divisional and departmental administrator evaluation committees that have been suspended.”
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Sam Morris’ Opening Statement and FAM’s Commitment to Miami’s Academic Future
Our class-sizes are swelling, our faculty lines are stagnant or shrinking or increasingly precarious, we are constantly being asked to do more with less and so many of us just find the fire to get it done because we love our students, we love our colleagues, we love our jobs, we love our University and…
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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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Faculty: Voted 95% In Favor Of Improving Shared Governance. Provost & Board: Claim Miami “Exceeds” Shared Governance Norms
Back in Fall of 2020, 95% of faculty voted to support the AAUP’s two-part Faculty Assembly Resolution on Shared Governance. Sadly, the Board of Trustees has now declined to take action on either of the Resolution’s requests to improve shared governance. It first refused to support adding faculty as nonvoting members. Now, it has decided…