Tag: solidarity
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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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AAUP-AFSCME Solidarity Meeting, April 5
We’re having a meeting/party to support Miami’s hardworking physical facilities staff as they prepare to renegotiate their contract. They keep campus safe, clean and beautiful; faculty and students benefit from their work every day. Meanwhile, their numbers have been slashed so they all have more work to do, they are frequently denied holiday requests and…