by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Nov 7, 2024 | UAM-UMD Updates
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...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Oct 7, 2024 | UAM-UMD Updates
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...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Sep 26, 2024 | UAM-UMD Updates
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...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Mar 12, 2024 | UAM-UMD Updates
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...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Feb 11, 2024 | UAM-UMD Updates
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. Raschid and Arsenjuk, both former...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Feb 2, 2024 | UAM-UMD Updates
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...
