Tag: workload

  • FAM-L Bargaining, Day 13

    FAM-L Bargaining, Day 13

    Today at FAM-L bargaining, our negotiating team worked to protect librarians’ promotion, tenure, and evaluation process and advocate for more manageable workloads. Meanwhile, management presented “solutions” that miss the realities of librarians’ day-to-day work — promotion procedures that put librarians’ progress at risk; arguing that service and scholarship don’t count as part of day-to-day work…

  • “Work-life balance that allows us to serve our students”—Jenny Presnell

    “Work-life balance that allows us to serve our students”—Jenny Presnell

    To devalue our scholarship and teaching affects the quality of education we all provide to Miami students.

  • FAM-L Bargaining, Day 9: 75 hours a week

    FAM-L Bargaining, Day 9: 75 hours a week

    FAM: “What happens if every week is a 75-hour workweek?” Management: “Then you work 75 hours every week.”

  • Fall Update: The Pandemic Continues, Our Power Grows

    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…

  • The Teacher-Scholar Model is at Risk at Miami

    The Teacher-Scholar Model is at Risk at Miami

    Having scholars in the classroom matters to the value of a Miami education and degree. But changes in workload have been throwing the teacher-scholar model out of balance, risking loss of the scholarship component.

  • On Workload Changes at Miami

    On Workload Changes at Miami

    Faculty Working Conditions are Student Learning Conditions COVID-19 has stretched higher education in ways that we could not have imagined. Faculty and staff at Miami have spent the last year working under extraordinary conditions to continue to provide a high-quality education, serve our community, and produce top research. Throughout, we have heard from senior Miami…

  • Survey: Faculty workload significantly increased

    AAUP Miami recently conducted a survey of faculty on their workload in 2020. During the pandemic, many faculty are experiencing increases in teaching and service, and some are doing uncompensated work. Overall, the survey reveals that faculty are willing to make sacrifices to educate students in the context of a temporary crisis, but fearful that…