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It’s Membership May!
UAM-UMD is running a "May Membership Drive" to encourage UMD faculty to join AAUP as official dues-paying members. You can becomes dues paying member here: https://www.aaup.org/membership/join Why is it important to be a dues paying member? So glad you asked! 1) Dues...
Rally to Kill the Cuts
Great turnout today to Kill the Cuts, with workers of all stripes from NIH, UMD, Hopkins, GW, Georgetown, Howard, UMBC, and Montgomery College. Particular shoutout to organizer Nina Randazzo who didn't know about the union last year and is now telling the bosses off...
Rally to Kill the Cuts!
Join your UMD students and colleagues Tuesday at 4:00 pm in Upper Senate Park in DC, where we’ll tell Congress: Kill the Cuts. UMD faculty and students will meet outside the turnstiles of the College Park Metro Station at 3 pm to travel to the rally. For those who...
CALL TO ACTION: Major Legislative Update & Urgent Ask
We are posting today with an important update and urgent request. As you know, we have been fighting in Annapolis for collective bargaining legislation for all faculty and librarians in Maryland higher ed institutions for the last three years. It has been a tough...
UAM-UMD VP Daniel Greene Addresses USM Board of Regents: “We are not the enemy but, on campus, we are treated like it”
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. I train the data scientists who go on to firms like Lockheed or Accenture, or the feds. I...
UMD faculty rights group rebrands, pushes for collective bargaining
Screenshot 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, is a coalition of faculty members...
“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 of our LGBTQI+, immigrant, and racial minority communities. President Trump selected...
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 university administration has banned university departments from issuing...
UMD Should Not Fear Its Students and Teachers
Screenshot 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 gigs if they didn’t get enough classes. But we received a...