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The beginning of every new year is a time for New Year’s resolutions. It’s a time for people to think ahead and find ways to make their lives better, by being hopeful and optimistic about the future.
Sean and Luke, Editor-In-Chief and Digital Managing Editor - We want the data section to return and for the AP Stylebook to update its rules about numerals. And we want jobs.
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions. This practice, not used by all schools, has been a topic of debate since its inception. Regardless of one’s beliefs, the program succeeded in creating student bodies that are more demographically accurate to the nation.
College campuses have become a new political battleground for the right, and educational freedom is under attack. The Ohio Senate recently approved funding for “intellectual diversity” centers on various college campuses, including Miami University’s.
Last week, the Ohio Senate passed Senate Bill 83, a bill that would restrict public colleges and universities from requiring diversity training, from teaching diversity and from allowing faculty to analyze their work if it has any semblance of a political ideology as defined by the Republican-controlled congress.
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Can a single collective bargaining unit represent different faculty ranks and categories? Do tenure-line faculty, visiting faculty, Teaching, Clinical Professors and Lecturers (TCPL) and librarians want to be in a single bargaining unit? Are we all one faculty?
Content Warning: This article contains themes of interpersonal violence and death.
The members of the Editorial Board who reported on and wrote: “‘Resign.’: How Jason Osborne’s tenure as Miami’s provost came to an end” recused themselves from and had no part in this Editorial Board discussion.
The 2022 Inclusion Forum's theme was "Essential Equity and Access."
Fifty years ago, the infamous then-President Richard Nixon signed into law what is today known as Title IX, leading to a 545% increase in women’s collegiate sports participation since its inception.
Content Warning: This column deals with themes of sexual and interpersonal violence.
As students, staff and faculty start the new school year, the Faculty Alliance of Miami (FAM) continues its efforts to build a better Miami for everyone. With faculty and community support, FAM enjoyed significant success this year, clearing tough hurdles on the way to unionization with room to spare. Now, the state has confirmed that a majority of full-time faculty and librarians support FAM. The administration can do the right thing — and be fair to hundreds of faculty and librarians who deserve the chance to vote on unionization — by accepting FAM's proposed bargaining unit (full-time faculty and librarians) and moving forward with a union vote. Or they can continue to stall — spending more money on legal fees, wasting resources better spent on teaching and learning initiatives on campus.
During the summer of 2020, Miami University students created the @dearmiamiu Instagram account. The account shared anonymous posts from students and alumni describing their experiences with racism, homophobia and other forms of hate, marginalization and exclusion as well as stories of sexual and interpersonal violence on Miami’s campuses. After a two-year hiatus, the account has become active again this summer.
An end to women’s autonomy and access to abortion care (which is, not surprisingly, quickly snowballing into limiting access to contraceptives) is an end to economic and social power for the U.S. states racing to enact abortion bans. Ohio can be used as a prime example.
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There seems to be increased concern about the faculty’s voice in university governance and a concomitant rise in calls for faculty unionization in response. What are the reasons for this at this point in time? From the Faculty Alliance of Miami website, these reasons seem to be: