by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | May 3, 2023 | UAM-UMD Updates
Screenshot In recent weeks and months, multiple states have passed legislation targeting academic freedom and independence at public colleges and universities. States incuding Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, North Dakota and Texas have gone after tenure, one of the...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Mar 17, 2023 | UAM-UMD Updates
At many universities, organized labor is treated with contempt. The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed UMD AAUP and Fearless Student Employees in the wake of hearings on a collective bargaining bill that would dramatically reshape labor relations at the...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Feb 22, 2023 | UAM-UMD Updates
Dr. Karin Rosemblatt, President of UMD AAUP and professor of History at the University of Maryland, is featured in Maryland Matters, discussing collective bargaining and the benefits it could bring to institutions of highter education in the state of Maryland. Follow...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Nov 18, 2022 | UAM-UMD Updates
Between November 3rd and 7th UMD AAUP members voted on whether to move forward with a campaign for collective bargaining rights for all faculty (including librarians and postdoctoral associates) in the University System of Maryland, Morgan State University (MSU), and...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Nov 10, 2022 | UAM-UMD Updates
Our survey of our members at the start of the Fall 2022 semester revealed a high level of concern regarding classroom transmission of COVID19, and the unilateral decision by UMD administration to not require masking in instructional settings (covered here). Many of us...
