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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...
Evidence suggests unionized universities experience far less bias
Screenshot 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 faculty and graduate workers are not. I have been a faculty member...
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 students, postdoctoral associates and part- and full-time...
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.
Gov. Wes Moore, help higher-ed faculty and grad students unionize at Maryland’s public schools
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...
Stonewalled, Disrespected, and Dismissed
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 University System of Maryland campuses, Morgan State University, and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.