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“What’s happening at UM?”

“What’s happening at UM?”. LEO is bargaining a new contract with UM. LEO is the union representing lecturers in Ann Arbor, Dearborn & Flint. Lecturers are faculty who primarily teach; lecturers are not on the tenure track. Lecturers teach many of your classes, including this one.

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“What’s happening at UM?”

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  1. “What’s happening at UM?” LEO is bargaining a new contract with UM. LEO is the union representing lecturers in Ann Arbor, Dearborn & Flint. Lecturers are faculty who primarily teach; lecturers are not on the tenure track. Lecturers teach many of your classes, including this one.

  2. It’s not an easy time… appropriations are down and tuition is up

  3. yet overall revenue is higher than it’s ever been. Share of General Fund Budget Fiscal Year 2002 Fiscal Year 2009 $1,042,839,968 35% Net Increase Overall, 4.4% per year $1,408,793,640 Source: Glenna Schweitzer, UM Office of Budget and Planning, 9/28/2008

  4. If you ask President Coleman… From her State of the University address, October 5, 2009 Whether in Ann Arbor, Flint or Dearborn, the University of Michigan is more vibrant than ever. At a time when other universities have imposed hiring freezes, we are recruiting new and experienced faculty. We have an innovative $30 million initiative to hire 100 young professors by 2012. We are moving forward with a research expansion unlike any other in higher education. Our University has performed remarkably well given this economic downturn. We have shown great discipline in our fiscal practices, resulting in a relative stability that has softened the economic blows being felt elsewhere in higher education. These are not ordinary times, but then we are not an ordinary university.

  5. Here’s what UM is asking of lecturers: Cuts in benefits: increased health care premiums and co-pays annual increases of $127 to $1228 for full-time lecturers annual increases of $1046 to $2582 for part-time lecturers Reduced contributions: no University retirement benefit in first year No raise to minimum salaries: same base salaries since 2008 full-time minimum, Ann Arbor- $32,000 full-time minimum, Dearborn- $26,000 full-time minimum, Flint- $25,000 Raises for existing employees: yet to be determined What happened to stability? What about record general fund revenue? Why are lecturers being squeezed so hard?

  6. You might ask, “What are UM’s priorities?” Teaching? Well, lecturers do a lot of that. But that’s not where the money goes. What is your tuition (and your taxes) paying for? Isn’t tuition for teaching? Why are classes being cancelled? Why are curricula being restructured? Why are lecturers being laid off? Is that how students learn? The administration seems more concerned with limiting what’s said in the classroom about these issues. It doesn’t want you to know. Why not ask?

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