Good morning. I am Daniel Greene, Associate Professor of Information in College Park, where I have worked for 7 years. Before that, I worked at a small startup called Microsoft. […]
Author: UMD AAUP Executive Committee
UMD faculty rights group rebrands, pushes for collective bargaining
The University of Maryland’s AAUP chapter rebranded itself in October to become United Academics of Maryland – University of Maryland. The organization, formerly known as the American Association of University […]
“Professors are the Enemy”: What the Election Results Mean for Higher Ed
We will not mince words: we are deeply concerned about what the re-election of Donald Trump means for the future of higher education, labor rights, reproductive rights, and the safety […]
We Must Protect Free Speech on UMD’s Campus
Open Letter to President Darryll Pines: We, the undersigned, write to express our grave concern about recent University of Maryland’s policy changes regarding free speech. In the last year, the […]
UMD Should Not Fear Its Students and Teachers
Last month, my fellow teachers at the University of Maryland, College Park, began their fall classes with the usual concerns: learning students’ names, logging into the WiFi, searching for bartending […]
Evidence suggests unionized universities experience far less bias
The Maryland General Assembly is considering a bill to give state university faculty the right to form a union. Currently, staff at the state’s colleges and universities are unionized, but […]
Commentary: University administrators wrong on facts of collective bargaining dispute
Louiqa Raschid and Luka Arsenjuk, professors at the University of Maryland, explain in The Baltimore Banner what University System of Maryland leadership gets wrong about collective bargaining for USM faculty and graduate workers.
Maryland lawmakers, union leaders seek to extend labor rights to more librarians, state workers
Hannah Gaskill of the Baltimore Sun provides coverage of new bills in support of collective bargaining for state workers, including House Bill 493 which would extend collective bargaining rights to graduate […]
Stop Stifling UMD Graduate Workers’ Voices. Grant Them Collective Bargaining Rights.
Read Rigby Phillips of the Graduate Labor Union’s Legislative Team in The Diamondback on why graduate assistants have the right to decide for themselves whether they want to a union.
UMD Labor Organizations ask USM Board of Regents to Support Collective Bargaining Rights
On September 21st, UMD AAUP joined with UMD’s Graduate Labor Union and the campus Local 1072 of AFSCME in a rally ahead of the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents meeting on September 22nd.