Tag: educational mission
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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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Watch That Exec Tree Grow!
The Dean of Miami’s Regional campuses has become our newest Vice-President at Miami. Let’s celebrate the occasion by playing a fun game: “Watch That Exec Tree Grow!” Watch for yourself: Since 2017-2018, Miami’s high-paid executive cabinet has almost doubled. Back in 2017, Miami had six vice-presidents. In 2021, we have 11. The lower chart (2020-2021)…
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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…
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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…
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Factcheck on Provost’s TCPL Cap Argument
Yesterday in Senate, the Provost made an argument for abolishing the TCPL cap. (The TCPL cap constrains the number of teaching professors, clinical and professional faculty and lecturers to a percentage of the number of tenure-line faculty). The Provost’s argument failed to mention an important option that would allow us to stand with him in…
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Miami’s “Boldly Creative” Profit Focus: How to Reduce the Risks
Miami’s new “Boldly Creative Initiatives” plan — funded by $50 million that’s just been swept from department and program budgets—is an effort to respond to a difficult situation for higher ed. Moody’s, the bond rating agency, has just revised the bond outlook for higher ed downward. Higher education’s financial outlook is not good. Publics such…
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“Bottom line: Less than 33 cents of every dollar spent is for faculty pay”
On November 11, Vice-President David Creamer and Provost Phyllis Callahan gave the second annual Senate Budget Presentation. (We hope the administration will continue this tradition.) We received a response to the presentation from James Brock, Moeckel Professor of Economics at Miami, and he’s given us permission us to share it. The main takeaway: “The information…create[s] the…