Dear United Academics faculty,
Please join us this week for a student Teach-In Wednesday and the United Academics Spring Members meeting Thursday.
Event details below; hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Katlyn Morris
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Student Teach-In: Wednedsay, April 3, 2:30-3:30pm
Lafayette 207
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Join the UVM Coalition for Student and Faculty Rights and United Academics UVM for a teach-in on what's been happening on-campus, what to do next, and countering what the administration has been claiming is "misinformation."
While class sizes are increasing, programs are being defunded and cut, and faculty are getting laid off, the administration has been silencing, threatening, and sanctioning faculty and students for daring to voice their opposition to the current administration. They have claimed that there has been "misinformation" going around, all while circulating their own misleading information. This event intends to correct the record and give us an opportunity to consider the data and the story it tells.
Background:
http://www.unitedacademics.org/facts-about-uvm-spending
Info on student sanctions:
https://vtdigger.org/2019/03/28/uvm-students-used-megaphones-indoor-protest-face-discipline/amp/
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United Academics Spring Members Meeting: Thursday April 4, 3:30-5:30pm
John Dewey Lounge
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All United Academics members: We invite you to join us this Thursday for refreshments, updates on contract bargaining plans and UA staffing, and voting on the important business of your faculty union.
Feel free to drop in for any part of the meeting you're available.
Members Meeting agenda and Fall meeting minutes.