Tag: academic freedom
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 14
At the FAM-T table today, we vehemently rejected the administration’s proposal on Management Rights. Their Management Rights proposal gives sweeping and unilateral power to administration, including the power to control the content and style of our teaching—a clear violation of faculty academic freedom. As FAM said at the table, the idea that administration can control…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 12
We are coming to the end of the first phase of FAM negotiations, where we’re getting the last of our proposals on the table. Today we passed across no fewer than nine proposals, each an important brick in the foundation of our bargaining platform. View them all in our Proposal Tracker! We are looking out…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 11
At Jan. 31 faculty contract negotiations, while management continued to try to limit our contract as much as possible, FAM kept up the fight to strengthen our working conditions and protections. Academic Freedom and Grievance & Arbitration We passed counter-proposals on Academic Freedom and Grievance and Arbitration—both articles are extremely important to higher education. At…
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FAM-T Bargaining, Day 10
FAM-T was back at the table today for the first time since December 19. Today was another day where FAM’s bargaining team proposed articles that your faculty surveys indicated are top priority: benefits. Our proposals on health, vision, and dental insurance center around lowering costs for our members, protecting our benefits, and strengthening our university…
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Anti-higher-ed, anti-labor bill SB 83 passes committee: call lawmakers!
We are sorry to report that SB 83 passed out of committee this morning and could go to the House floor soon. This bill is a true threat to student education, academic freedom, and faculty livelihoods. It is so unpopular — over 700 testimonies and tens of thousands of letters in opposition since March — that its supporters had to turn…
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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 Update for 10/25
It is important that faculty retain our full right to determine instructional content. We will continue to push to enshrine academic freedom rights in the contract.
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HB 327 Testimony Workshop
UPDATE: Some of you may try to join the workshop via a Zoom meeting link with a password. If that link does not work for you, please try registering. If you oppose HB 327, the Ohio higher ed bill that poses significant threats to academic freedom and higher ed funding in Ohio, please join Miami…
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Letter to Board of Trustees: Why Tenure Decisions Are Best Left to the Faculty
This week, our Board of Trustees is set to pass new governance that would put Miami out of step with national norms and national AAUP recommendations. If the changes are approved [sadly, they were: see update], we may be entering a new era in which the Board intervenes on a regular basis in tenure and…