UAM-UMD NEWS

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…

Hi everyone! Your union president Karin Rosemblatt appeared on the podcast I Hate the News talking about our fight for collective bargaining. Listen here. Legislative Update Your phone calls, emails…

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…

Last month colleagues across the USM  published op-eds arguing for our right to collective bargaining! Dr. Shana Pearson Merkowitz, of the School of Public Policy at UMD, published “University faculty deserve…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…