April Events
Unions and the University (via zoom): Monday April 24 5:15pm (register here ) and Tuesday April 25 3:45pm (register here): Given the historic unionization win of SU graduate student workers (728-36!), and given National AAUP’s affiliation with unions and support of collective bargaining rights, we decided to do events exploring the broader importance of unions…
SU AAUP STATEMENT ON GRADUATE STUDENT UNIONIZATION
Published in the Daily OrangeThe Syracuse University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) supports the right of the graduate student workers to organize and form a union without pressure or intimidation. We acknowledge that graduate student employees are workers who provide tremendous value to the life of the University. They execute many…
Meeting Oct 10
SU-AAUP Membership Meeting (friends welcome!) October 10, 4:00 pm 204 Maxwell Also on Zoom, register here: https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqc-upqT8qG9BD5r2YYHKHsJDRqyG1y9Q_ We will devote this meeting to working together to address our concerns around benefits, the rising cost of living and salary inequalities, and then generating concrete next steps. One promising site of intervention is reworking the process through…
Fall Welcome
Save the Date: General membership meetingMon. Oct. 10th at 4:00pm (hybrid) • Fill out our very brief Issue Campaign Survey by Friday, September 16th• We continue to pay close attention to the administration’s actions around TIAA-CREF plans and health coverage. And we remain committed to pressing for faculty inclusion on large-scale decisions concerning these issues.• We…
SU-AAUP Accomplishments
SU-AAUP in 2021-2022 Convened open member meetings to build an issue campaign from the bottom-up.Worked with Senate AAUP members and subcommittees to pass a motion calling on the administration to halt changes to TIAA benefits for new faculty.Surveyed students to gauge their views on the university’s management of the public health crisis, and shared survey…
May events
Monday May 2, 12:00-1:15pmOn Zoom (register here) A panel discussion of regional AAUP organizers in CNY on strategy and challenges re: building faculty power, featuring: Tuesday May 3, 9:00am-5:00pm: SU AAUP will be tabling under the breezeway at Huntington Beard-Crouse (HBC) adjacent to the quad. Stop by to find out about AAUP and chat with…
Organizing and Issue Campaigns
Learn how to build faculty power through issue campaigns: From Academe: How to Organize around Issues and Build Faculty Power Webinar: Membership Development and Organizing Webinar: Issue Identification: How to Turn Your Problems into Campaigns from “How to Organize around Issues and Build Faculty Power”
COVID Coping Resources
As the SU campus transitions to different levels of masking and mitigation, we realize faculty are concerned about safety in the classroom. Below are resources that may be useful in navigating the ongoing pandemic. We will continue to update this post. SAMPLE Letters to students about masking: “As an older person and a cancer survivor,…
Motion passes in Senate
Motion in support of petition to halt implementation of TIAA CREF cuts for new faculty passed with 76% voting in favor: The University Senate of Syracuse University, in support of a petition with over 350 signatures from its faculty and staff, calls upon the administration to halt implementation immediately of its recent decision to reduce…
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