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”
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,… Read More COVID Coping Resources
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… Read More Motion passes in Senate
Petition on new TIAA retirement contribution policy for new faculty/staff:https://docs.google.com/document/d/15WxMtZ8E3a64kTeR_QLqk6VTc-A4qXjLA_hBqt_tsWg/edit The University plans for this change to take effect this January 1st. It would effectively create two ‘tiers’ of retirement benefits among faculty and staff. Petition on increases to employee health care premiums:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pQFsUmD1RaBHMQhyQ2dNWriWN7mnakPnxsP-Lx3OPhQ/edit Imminent increases to faculty/staff health care premiums set to also take effect… Read More Petitions concerning changes to benefits
Leading the Faculty Response to the Extended Public Health Crisis Alternative Framework for opening campus in Fall 2020: developed and distributed a 3-part framework, prioritizing shared governance on teaching modes and pedagogy; robust COVID health and safety; and social and racial justice. Published letter to the editor in the Daily Orange “SU professors demand more… Read More SU-AAUP ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2020-21
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 11:07 AMSubject: Queries to Public Health Team from SU AAUP Dear Ramesh, The Provost’s office offered you as the direct contact person for the University’s Public Health Team. Thank you, and the rest of the group, for your ongoing work, much of it invisible to the broader campus. We are writing as… Read More Queries to Public Health Team
[to be introduced at April 21 Senate meeting] Whereas the Senate recognizes the potential benefits of updating and digitizing processes for faculty evaluation, especially for tenure and promotion review, Whereas all issues related to faculty evaluation must be developed with meaningful and substantive faculty participation, and the decision to implement a Faculty Information System (FIS)… Read More Resolution on Faculty Information Systems (FIS) / Faculty Evaluation
Dear Dean [name]: We are writing to bring to your attention a concern regarding the memo circulated by Provost Liu on January 27, 2021 titled “Important Policy and Process Matters Relating to Non-tenure-track and Pre-tenure Faculty Reviews and Promotion for Tenure.” The memo requires all tenure files to include the table copied at the bottom… Read More Letter to Deans Concerning Faculty Review Table
In early October, SU-AAUP conducted two forums and circulated a campus-wide survey to all faculty concerning teaching modality in a time of Pandemic. Over 100 faculty registered for the forums and over 300 completed the survey, representing 20% of faculty from all schools and across all ranks, including teaching faculty and part-time instructors. Faculty expressed… Read More Instruction During Pandemic: SU-AAUP Report November 23, 2020
Numerous concerns were discussed at the forums on teaching modality. A detailed report will be distributed at the end of October. Some topics of discussions include: · Ways to best engage principles of shared governance and the importance of full faculty participating in teaching modality decisions · Concerns among all faculty ranks that instructors with… Read More SU AAUP Forums Campus-wide Survey on Teaching in the Pandemic: Quick Findings
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