FSU EX COM E-VOTE 5/25/16
The FSU Ex Com was asked to vote on the following. The FSU Executive Committee voted to approve adding FSU logo to flyer, approved printing. The votes were 10 in favor; 0 opposed; 3 members did not vote.
As many of you know, the university has told the campus that there will be cuts of 22.3 million next year. They have sent non-reappointment notices to NTTs on semester by semester appointments (we don’t know the exact amount).
There has been organizing on campus as a result. We are being asked whether we can put our logo on the attached flier. The draft I saw was the first one here and I made some editorial changes on the second one. I don’t know what the final version looks like.
Let us know if you approve of putting our logo on this and if you vote to pay for a share of the cost of printing as well (the unions usually split the costs three ways). One issue is that we were told not to use the term “lay-off” since these are really non-reappointments, but the term seems to be used in a fun way on the back where students are supposed to take selfies of themselves with this. Please weigh in ASAP as this is going to the printer today (sorry we never got a final version of it—it is still being reworked).
Marlene Kim
Faculty Staff Union President, and
Professor
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
Email: Marlene.Kim@umb.edu
Voice: 617/287-6954
Fax: 617/287-6976
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The day after classes ended this Spring, UMass Boston’s
Administration announced that they plan to increase
class sizes, raise tuition and send ‘notices of non-
renewal’ to hundreds of faculty to close a budget gap
of $20 - $30Million this coming year.
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more challenging to succeed. Classes will be larger, courses needed to graduate will be harder to schedule, and upper-level courses offered less often. Student organizations and support budgets will shrink. And students will have to pay 4% more in tuition and fees: $600 more for in-state undergrads and $650 for in-state grad students.
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UMass Boston faculty, students and campus unions are organizing and need you to join with us. There are many ways you can help even if you are busy.
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#SAVEUMB
#DONTLAYOFFMY TEACHER
#NOCUTSNOHIKESUMB