Faculty Alliance of Miami: FAM

Month: February 2017

  • Rudy Fichtenbaum on RCM at Miami

    Our chapter meeting tomorrow night features a talk on RCM by National AAUP President Rudy Fichtenbaum, who is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Wright State University. RCM, or Responsibility Centered Management, is a budgeting model that’s swept higher education, a decentralized management model that rewards revenue generation and cost efficiency in academia. Do the risks…

  • On the immigrant question: The production of fear is an industry that serves private interests

    For all my friends in the university community and elsewhere who are more vulnerable under the new order—and for all those who are not their friends: Whatever your feelings about the increasingly anti-immigrant efforts of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it’s worth considering another period of our history when our democratic future hung…