Activism

11/6/2018

Dear Colleague,

Bargaining with the administration over parking has come to an impasse, and we have now entered non-binding mediation (see the update here).  The UMB administration has refused to budge on key aspects of their parking plan, which still includes plans to impose a $15 per day parking rate on our public commuter campus for on campus parking (West Garage, Lot D, Campus Centre garage), as well as the elimination of multi-use passes.  

11/5/2018

NOTE: For current and previous bargaining updates see here.

Dear Colleagues,

The administration made their last financial offer to the FSU last Friday regarding parking rates:

10/29/2018

Dear Colleague,

We hope you are having a great semester.  Please join us on Wednesday to protest the high parking fees the university plans to impose.   

10/26/2018

The Role of Public Higher Education and UMass Boston

Edited remarks by Marlene Kim from an address given at UMB on October 4, 2018

Public higher education serves the public good: it benefits more than just the college graduate.  Because it helps the larger community, we should subsidize higher education more than we do so today. 

10/26/2018