Ratification complete
Thursday, December 11th, 2008Yesterday, the United Faculty of Florida finished its ratification. The Board of Trustees have just ratified the 2008-09 Collective Bargaining Agreement in its regular board meeting.
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Tentatively-agreed CBA details available now
Monday, December 1st, 2008A summary of changes to and the full text of the tentative agreement are now available on the CBA ratification page. Voting-station days and times will be available by the end of the day.
Tentative agreement
Saturday, November 29th, 2008The USF Board of Trustees and the United Faculty of Florida are pleased to announce they have reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement. Details will be forthcoming early next week
Join UFF May, June, or July and don’t pay dues until August 1
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008The United Faculty of Florida understands that money is especially tight for nine-month faculty who do not have much summer pay, and it is working with the Florida Education Association this year so that if you join UFF between May 1 and July 31, you do not pay any dues until August 1. Download the membership form, fill it in, sign it, and send it to 30238 USF Holly Drive.
UFF sponsors visit of Michael Bérubé to USF in September
Saturday, April 19th, 2008At yesterday’s meeting, the USF chapter of the United Faculty of Florida agreed to sponsor the visit of Michael Bérubé to campus as part of the fall membership activities. Bérubé has agreed to come, give a public lecture, and also talk with both faculty and graduate-assistant activists and union members. While the exact dates of Bérubé’s public talk and other events are not set yet, it will be in the early part of the week of September 22-26.
Michael Bérubé is Paterno Professor in English Literature and Science, Technology, and Society and the author of What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts?, Higher Education under Fire, Rhetorical Occasions, The Employment of English, and Life as We Know It, among his books. He is also a member of the National Council of the American Association of University Professors.
External reviewer mini-workshop to go
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Going up for tenure and needing help putting together a proposed list of external reviewers? Put together a small group of colleagues and you get a mini-workshop brought to you.
Here’s what you do:
- Find a colleague or two to work with: both must be union members or willing to sign up (this is a member-only mini-workshop)
- Check my calendar for times before 2:30 pm that I am free (I generally am not free after 2:30 pm)
- Get a room
- Send me an e-mail with two proposed time slots (45-60 minutes are enough, if you’re at Tampa, and if you’re at another campus, I’ll figure out the drive time).
- I’ll respond within a day or two to say if I can make one of those times.
- I bring materials, you bring a list of potential reviewer nominations and what you know about them
Collective bargaining session March 7
Friday, February 29th, 2008UFF-USF and USF BOT bargaining session
Friday, March 7, 2008, 2-4 pm
SVC 2070
Tenure workshops March 3, 4, and 5, Tampa
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008The United Faculty of Florida Tenure and Promotion Workshop is back, with three sessions covering the same material the week before spring break! Don’t forget to sign up (e-mail Sherman Dorn) so we have a sense of how many people will come.
TENURE WORKSHOP
March 3, 2007, 8:00 am - 9:30 am, EDU 261 (Tampa)
March 4, 2007, 8:00 am - 9:30 am, EDU 258 (Tampa)
March 5, 2007, 8:00 am - 9:30 am, EDU 258 (Tampa)
UFF MEMBERS ONLY (we’ll make it easy to become one!)
Do YOU know insider secrets to making your tenure case?
Do YOU know how to address the unwritten expectations and navigate the ambiguous procedures in your department and college?
Do YOU know how to pick external reviewers who will seal the decision effectively?
Do YOU know your rights in the tenure process?
Topics to be addressed:
* Handling unwritten guidelines
* Annual reviews and third-year reviews
* Addressing weaknesses
* Identifying and winnowing the external reviewer pool
* Describing your publication/production cycle)
* Interpreting the USF (and NCF) promotion/tenure guidelines
* Research influence statistics
* Your contractual rights (though that will vary by university)
* Establishing an academic persona
If you are not currently members, you can register and then sign up as a member that day.
Refreshments will be served (tea, coffee, bagels, goodies)
UFF statewide news & documents page
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008The state office in Tallahassee is revising the statewide UFF page, and there is now a page for news and documents, which currently includes materials such as the nomination forms for UFF VP, the memo to chapter presidents on the Council of Presidents meeting at the end of January, and so forth.
Chapter resolution on summer school
Saturday, January 12th, 2008Approved unanimously at the January 11, 2008, chapter meeting:
Before the University cuts summer school, the University of South Florida should allow departments to explore alternative funding sources for summer 2008.
More information about this resolution will be available by the end of the weekend.
Update (January 17): Events overtook this. See the January 17 entry about the budget situation.