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Collective Bargaining Rights For Academic Workers Will Strengthen Our Public Higher Education Institutions
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.
Why We Need Collective Bargaining: The Campaign for a More Just and Democratic Workplace
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...
How safe are you and the students in the classroom?
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...
Open Letter: UMD AAUP Challenges UMD Covid Policies
We received an overwhelming response from our members last month when we surveyed you on the university leadership's abrupt decision to drop classroom mask protections. As we outline in our open letter to UMD leadership, we believe this decision to be out of step with...
Here’s What’s in UMD’s Wallet: The Results of the Comprehensive Independent Financial Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Y2Ei-ri1c On April 22nd, 2022, UMD AAUP presented the results of our comprehensive independent financial analysis of the University of Maryland, College Park. Led by university finance expert Professor Howard Bunsis, we reviewed the...
What’s in UMD’s Wallet? Presentation of Our Comprehensive Financial Analysis of UMD
We are excited to present the results of the UMD AAUP-commissioned comprehensive financial analysis of UMD College Park on Friday, April 22nd at 2pm. Professor Howard Bunsis, a distinguished professor of accounting and expert on university finances, will lead us...
UMD AAUP Expresses Concerns about University Leadership’s Approach to COVID19 for the Spring Semester
17 January 2022 Dear President Pines, Provost Rice, and Chief Medical Officer Marinopoulos: As officers of our campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors, we write to express our appreciation that UMD has taken some crucial steps to mitigate...
Join us for UMD AAUP’s Fall Gathering!
You are invited to a gathering (yes in person!) to discuss AAUP priorities here at UMD-College Park and to meet each other. It will take place at The Hall on Friday, November 12, 5-7pm. The Hall is a new restaurant behind The Hotel in College Park, with great...
Help us crack open UMD’s Finances!
Have you ever wondered how UMD spends all its money? Or why there always seems to be money available for athletics, fancy new buildings, and the sky-high salaries of university upper administrators, but the university pleads poverty when we ask for living wages for...