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A detailed report of the outcomes of the 2010 legislative session as it pertains to higher education, and the efforts of UFF are detailed in this PDF document.A summary is ava...
Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague:Now that the budget is signed, how did higher education fare in this year’s Legislature? The good news is that we saw an increase of 3.5 percent in recurring ...
Posted on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague:It is possible the Legislature could decide on the fate of faculty pensions tomorrow in a meeting of the Conference Committee, which makes the final decisions. ...
Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 [View Article]
Governor Charlie Crist has just vetoed SB6, the bill attacking elementary and secondary education. Among his reasons for the veto, he noted that it was a thinly veiled attack ...
Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 [View Article]
Please spend a few moments to help persuade Governor Crist to veto Senate Bill 6 by going to http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/uff_sb6 for one minute.Senate Bill 6 (HB 7189),...
Posted on Monday, April 12, 2010 [View Article]
TALLAHASSEE -- The passage by the House this morning of HB 7189 drew harsh criticism from the president of the Florida Education Association.“It’s difficult to imagine any...
Posted on Friday, April 9, 2010 [View Article]
The Governor received Senate Bill 6 today at 12:19 PM. That means he has until close of business on Friday, April 16th to veto the bill, sign it into law or let it become law ...
Posted on Friday, April 9, 2010 [View Article]
Florida public schools are under attack. Our hope lies with our Governor, Charlie Crist, and his use of the veto.For the sake of Florida's public schools I ask you to do two t...
Posted on Thursday, April 8, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague:We are close to a very destructive change in Florida’s education system; the plan of a handful of legislators in Tallahassee who have the power to make it a r...
Posted on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 [View Article]
HB 5701 by Rep. Rivera, R-112, Miami, a bill eliminating the Health Insurance Subsidy (HIS) for FRS retirees passed the House of Representatives. In a House Floor vote this af...
Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 [View Article]
March 30, 2010Dear Colleague:Contact legislators now! Urge them to stop planning more budget cuts for higher education, to oppose any reduction of pension benefits, and to sto...
Posted on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 [View Article]
House Bill 5701 was passed by the House Education and Economic Development Appropriations Council and has been placed on the Special Order Calendar for consideration on the Ho...
Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 [View Article]
Please continue to contact members of the Florida Senate and ask them to vote “no” on Senate Bill 6.The bill is on the floor of the senate this morning for "final" senate ...
Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague:Thank you for your strong response to the legislative attacks on the Florida Retirement System (FRS). As a result of the flood of messages legislators are recei...
Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 [View Article]
House Bill 5701 was passed by the House Education and Economic Development Appropriations Council and has been placed on the Special Order Calendar for consideration on the Ho...
Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2010 [View Article]
Dear Colleague:Legislative leaders are moving rapidly to pass a bill, HB 1319 (Grady), that could cut your Florida Retirement System pension in half. By changing rules about h...
Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010 [View Article]
By a vote of 491 to 4, the University of Florida's faculty union has overwhelmingly approved a contract agreement that was reached last month after years of debate, The Gaines...
Posted on Friday, February 19, 2010 [View Article]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. At Harvard, Carrie Grimes majored in anthropology and archaeology and ventured to places like Honduras, where she studied Mayan settlement patterns by ma...
Posted on Thursday, August 6, 2009 [View Article]
Professor Micheal Charles Pounds and Professor Brian Alan LaneUpdated: Sunday, July 26, 2009 Full Article Here.We are Professors at Cal State Long Beach. We have been stunned ...
Posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 [View Article]
TALLAHASSEE – The Board of Governors today appointed Frank T. Brogan,president of Florida Atlantic University, as chancellor of the State UniversitySystem of Florida.Brogan ...
Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009 [View Article]
Florida’s State University System has a new Chancellor: FAU President Frank Brogan. The Board of Governors selection, however, suggests the body’s limited regard for the p...
Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 [View Article]
By KIMBERLY MILLERPalm Beach Post Staff WriterFriday, July 17, 2009TAMPA — Florida Atlantic University's help-wanted sign is officially posted. Nobody should be surprised.Fr...
Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 [View Article]
From The Palm Beach PostBy KIMBERLY MILLERStaff WriterThursday, July 16, 2009In 2003, Frank Brogan dropped into the race for the presidency of Florida Atlantic University like...
Posted on Friday, July 17, 2009 [View Article]
EDITORIAL: Shake up the universitiesPalm Beach Post EditorialTuesday, July 14, 2009Two of the four finalists to become chancellor of the state university system helped damage ...
Posted on Thursday, July 16, 2009 [View Article]
The University of South Florida last year gave an estimated 5,500 employees this choice: take off three days in late December without pay, or use three days of paid vacation t...
Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 [View Article]
A union can make a big difference in people's perceptions of a job. Watch this great video to learn more.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLGoKqPAhSk
Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 [View Article]
Dear FSU Colleagues:Earlier this week the FSU Administration provided a list of "non-renewals" of 41 non-tenured faculty, including 14 Assistant Profesors, slated for terminal...
Posted on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 [View Article]
The Associated PressJune 24, 2009TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a new law that shifts the power to hire and fire state university presidents to each s...
Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 [View Article]
Source: The Chronicle of Higher EducationView Original ArticleFour years after a federal study panel gave Congress a wish list for assisting American research universities, a ...
Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 [View Article]
From The Associated PressORLANDO, Fla. -- The board that oversees Florida's public universities has voted to increase tuition by 7 percent.The Board of Governors approved the ...
Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009 [View Article]
By Angeline J. Taylor • Democrat Staff Writer • June 19, 2009ORLANDO – One by one, administrators from the state's public universities shared with the Board of Governors...
Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009 [View Article]
By Richard DanielsonFull Article is available here.TAMPA — In response to this year's cuts by the Legislature, many Florida universities are killing academic programs or lay...
Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 [View Article]
The UCF Faculty can show what great UFF organizers John Hitt and Terry Hickey are by joining UFF-UCF. Join now and get the summer free! More information on joining UFF-UCF can...
Posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 [View Article]
Florida Atlantic University professors declared a proposed reorganization of the College of Engineering invalid Friday afternoon, saying the administrative plan is an attack o...
Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 [View Article]
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education,6/8/09View full article here.This year was bleak for state higher-education budgets. But college leaders are even more worried about ...
Posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 [View Article]
From the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read the full article here.By PAUL FAINDateline: OrlandoYou can't lose what you never had. Or so goes the response at the University of...
Posted on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 [View Article]
Letters to the Editor 20 May 2009Why is Machen slashing budget? It is hard to fully express my disappointment that despite the state not cutting the University of Florida's b...
Posted on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 [View Article]
Are Florida’s Universities Spending Stimulus Money Wisely?Administrators at some of Florida’s universities are claiming they cannot use stimulus money to prevent layoffs o...
Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 [View Article]
By Scott Maxwell of the Orlando SentinelFlorida lawmakers appear poised to once again balance the budget on the backs of everyday Floridians.They want to jack up your costs to...
Posted on Friday, May 8, 2009 [View Article]
Dear Colleague:It worked! The campaign to contact legislators, which started in February an ended today, delivered results in funding for higher education. We know that cuts i...
Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 [View Article]
Source: Florida Times-Union, 5/1/2009 Florida colleges and universities might not see the severe budget cuts some were expecting. The Florida Legislature was close to finali...
Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 [View Article]
By Bill CotterellFlorida Capital Bureau TALLAHASSEE -- House and Senate budget negotiators today agreed on a 2 percent pay cut for state employees earning more than $45,000 a...
Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 [View Article]
Graduate employees at Florida State University have voted by more than a three-to-one margin to be represented by the United Faculty of Florida (UFF) in collective bargaining ...
Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 [View Article]
BUDGET TALKS EDGE FORWARD -- House and Senate negotiators move closer Thursday to crafting a 65 billion austerity budget, one that spares community colleges from the worst o...
Posted on Saturday, May 2, 2009 [View Article]
CRIST SUBMITS PAPERWORK FOR EDUCATION STIMULUS MONEY -- About 1.5 billion of the federal stimulus funds set aside for Florida's schools could be released to the state within...
Posted on Saturday, May 2, 2009 [View Article]
By Bill Cotterell, Jim Ash and Stephen PriceFlorida Capital Bureau State workers and universities won't see the drastic cuts that House leaders were proposing under a deal wo...
Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 [View Article]
From the Associated PressTALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers are headed for overtime after opening th final scheduled week of this year’s regular legislative session tonight w...
Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 [View Article]
By Scott Powers of the Orlando SentinelMore than 7,600 state, school-district and local public servants throughout Florida are taking advantage of a controversial law allowing...
Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 [View Article]
By Howard Troxler of the St. Pete Times on Cuts ot Higher EducationHere are two pieces of wisdom I heard last week.(1) You can't cut off a tree branch and say, "I'll put it ba...
Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 [View Article]
By Bill Cotterell of the Florida Capital NewsChanting "enough is enough," scores of state employees gathered at the Florida Capitol Friday to denounce planned pay cuts as a fo...
Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 [View Article]
By Amy Hollyfield and Marc Caputo of the St. Pete TimesFlorida lawmakers are relying on $2 billion in federal stimulus money to shore up their education budgets, but the state...
Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 [View Article]
The House budget has 10% cuts for higher education for next year. Contact key House members with phone messages or Fax before Sunday night to urge that they match the Senate b...
Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 [View Article]
TALLAHASSEE – The presidents of the 11 institutions of the State University System of Florida will hold a press conference Thursday at the Capitol to highlight concerns rega...
Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 [View Article]
TALLAHASSEE – The Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida will hold a special meeting Friday via conference call to discuss House-Senate budget negotiat...
Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 [View Article]
Here is a list of the Orange County Representatives and a link to their contact information. E-mail and call them to let them know how the House's proposed massive budget cuts...
Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 [View Article]
A quick update on events in Tallahassee:1) Former Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and Northwest Florida Stat College President Bob Richburg have been indicted by a Leon Count...
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 [View Article]
Talking Points and More Information on how to contact legislators may be found here: http://www.uffucf.org/news/article.php?id=324Very well-placed sources indicate that highe...
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 [View Article]
The University of Florida will consider eliminating 748 jobs and closing several academic programs to save about $75 million if the next state budget requires cuts approaching...
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 [View Article]
From an Editorial in the St. Pete TimesBefore Florida can get a return on its "intellectual capital," it has to invest in it first. Yet the Legislature is refusing to invest....
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 [View Article]
FSU prepared to eliminate 21 programsBy Doug BlackburnDEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITERFull Article Available Here.Florida State administrators on Monday afternoon released a draft of pr...
Posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 [View Article]
Dear Colleague:Once again the state of Florida is considering budget cuts to higher education. These cuts could be as high as 10%. Needless to say any more cuts to higher educ...
Posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 [View Article]
Don't risk Florida's future with cutsBy T.K. Wetherell and Robert Bradley, Special to the TimesPublished Wednesday, April 8, 2009Florida's legislators are wrestling with an un...
Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 [View Article]
BUDGET PLANS LEAVE MUCH TO QUESTION -- As legislators signed off on rival spending plans Tuesday, the Senate showed its determination to force Gov. Charlie Crist to accept a t...
Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 [View Article]
TEACHERS UNION TOUTS POLL SUPPORT FOR PENNY TAX -- In a poll released by the Florida Education Association, 77 percent of Florida voters strongly or somewhat favor imposing a ...
Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 [View Article]
“Few Floridians know that like most school employees, the percentage of taxes they pay is four times more than the state's wealthiest residents. Taxpayers who earn $1 millio...
Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 [View Article]
Idea of state pay cut falls flatBill Cotterell • News Journal Capital Bureau • March 22, 2009TALLAHASSEE — Florida taxpayers could save about $300 million by imposing a ...
Posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 [View Article]
TALLAHASSEE — As Florida's finances continue to unravel, Gov. Charlie Cris froze 15 percent of state spending on Thursday for the rest of this budget year.The effect is to h...
Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 [View Article]
UFF won a big victory this week when an arbitrator ruled in favor of UFF-UF. The case concerned an Assistant Professor of Vietnamese whom was improperly laid off by the Univer...
Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 [View Article]
Pay cut for state workers studiedMove could mean $304M in savings; Crist doesn’t favor itBy MARC CAPUTO and BREANNE GILPATRICK - Herald Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE Flo...
Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 [View Article]
Today, the Revenue Estimating Conference (REC) is in session to review revenue collections and other economic data since the group's last meeting in November 2008. The consens...
Posted on Saturday, March 14, 2009 [View Article]
Things don't look rosy for university budgetsBy Nathan CrabbeStaff WriterThe Gainesville SunPublished: Friday, February 27, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, Februar...
Posted on Monday, March 2, 2009 [View Article]
A court decision on Thursday offered a ringing endorsement of the economic basis for tenure and the interconnection among tenure, economic security, and academic freedom. In ...
Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 [View Article]
Today the Governor released his recommended 2009-10 budget. The complete budget recommendation can be found here. Here are some of the key points from the budget: Overall Bud...
Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 [View Article]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has emerged from the conference committee. The conferees have reached agreement on a final economic recovery package but f...
Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 [View Article]
Senator Deutch has made an appeal to Senate President Atwater to shift Senate budget hearings set for next week in Tallahassee to other Florida cities so a greater number of...
Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2009 [View Article]
Help President Obama Today!You were at the center of Barack Obama's historic election victory in 2008. And now President Obama needs your help in passing his top priority: T...
Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2009 [View Article]
We need your immediate assistance in asking your members to contact their U.S. Senators.The Senate Finance Committee is expected to take up their version of the Economic Rec...
Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 [View Article]
Today (Tuesday 27 January) the Governor signed Senate Bill 2-A approving reductions recommended by the Legislature during the January special session. The Governor vetoed a ...
Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 [View Article]
The Florida Education Association has been monitoring with great concern as Florida's public colleges and universities have been headed toward a financial crisis. The peak o...
Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2009 [View Article]
The Florida Legislature approved $2.3 billion reduction to the state budget today. The Senate approved the cuts by a 27-13 vote, along party lines. Sen. Gary Siplin of Orlan...
Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2009 [View Article]
So far the official state budget hole that lawmakers need to fill is slightly more than $2.3 billion through the end of June 2009, the end of this fiscal year. Unofficially ...
Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [View Article]
SAVE THE DATES!Two rallies are being planned to help send a unified message to our elected officials that their actions will have long-lasting negative impacts on our public...
Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [View Article]
Due to the over 30,000 emails and the additional pressure many of you put on your legislators we were able to hold the line. When everything was looking pretty bleak and we ...
Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2009 [View Article]
One Florida politician thinks that bigger college classes are better. Here what he has to say here.
Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2009 [View Article]
The initial proposal by both committees is a 4% reduction totaling approximately $93 million for the universities. This is consistent with the proposed holdback of 4% of sta...
Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 [View Article]
From Inside Higher Ed:State Rep. Ray Sansom of Florida announced on the first day of a special legislative session Monday that he would reluctantly give up his $110,000 a ye...
Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 [View Article]
Florida State University will have to lay off about 200 employees because of a cumulative $65 million budget cut, FSU Provost Larry Abele told Big Bend legislators Monday ni...
Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 [View Article]
The Senate Higher Education Appropriations Committee chaired by Senator Evelyn Lynn (R-Daytona) and the House State Universities and Private Colleges Appropriations Committe...
Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 [View Article]
The United Faculty of Florida applauds Governor Crist for recognizing the urgent need for a stable and predictable source of funding for Florida's public universities. This is...
Posted on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 [View Article]
Full story from the Orlando Sentinel may be found here.We think: While others struggle, university presidents are living largeNovember 25, 2008They run vast organizations whos...
Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 [View Article]
Full story from the St. Pete times may be found here.It's taken some time, but Gov. Charlie Crist is coming around on the importance of higher education to Florida's future. T...
Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 [View Article]
Some opponents say the amendment is unnecessary because Florida statutes
already affirm that same-sex marriage is not legally recognized. Domestic partner benefits, such as ho...
Posted on Saturday, November 1, 2008 [View Article]
For a complete list of the UFF/FEA election endorsements click here.Or copy and past the url: http://www.unitedfacultyofflorida.org/documents/2008_UFF_Endorsed_Candidates.htm
Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2008 [View Article]
A noted economics group, partnering with education advocates based at the University of South Florida, says that by investing $1 billion more in higher education, Florida lawm...
Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 [View Article]
We're writing to ask you to sign and circulate an online petition urging Senators and Representatives to co-sponsor new breakthrough legislation, the Teaching and Research Ass...
Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 [View Article]
FEA sent a brochure with election positions on Amendments to every member last week. Opposition to Amendment 2 is at the top on the back cover. UFF will email a complete list ...
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 [View Article]
House Speaker Marco Rubio and Florida International University deserve each other for their preposterous deal making him a "visiting distinguished-service professor."
FI...
Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 [View Article]
After a short-lived recovery in 2006-07, faculty salaries are lagging behind inflation again this year. Yet the salaries paid to head football coaches, presidents, and other...
Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 [View Article]
A St. Petersburg Times Editorial
Published March 7, 2008
As an example of how direct legislative control over Florida universities might look, senators played the role ...
Posted on Friday, March 7, 2008 [View Article]
By Stephen D. Price
TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT
Feb. 15, 2008
House Speaker Marco Rubio got an earful from presidents of Florida's major colleges and universities Thursda...
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 [View Article]
By SHANNON COLAVECCHIO-VAN SICKLER
St. Petersburg Times
January 23, 2008
TALLAHASSEE - Associate history professor Matt Childs needs to spend another four to six mont...
Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 [View Article]
Report to Urge Sweeping Change for SUNY System
By Karen W. Arenson
New York Times
December 15, 2007
Warning that New York has "slipped in stature" and that its once-p...
Posted on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 [View Article]
Op-Ed by Jack Fiorito
Tallahassee Democrat
December 8th, 2007
The news of a potential $2.5 million contract for Bobby Bowden and a $200,000 raise for Jimbo Fisher, ri...
Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 [View Article]
By Alan Finder
November 20, 2007
New York Times
DEARBORN, Mich. – Professors with tenure or who are on a tenure track are now a distinct minority on the country'...
Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 [View Article]
Three of the 10 Highest-Paid Public University Presidents Are In Florida. Among Community Colleges, It's Five Of The Top 10.
St. Petersburg Times
By Shannon Colavecchi...
Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 [View Article]
School Presidents' Compensation Reflects Competition for Positions
Marc Freeman
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Three of the 10 highest-paid public-university chief exe...
Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 [View Article]
St. Petersburg Times
October 30, 2007
Editorial
A 5 percent tuition increase is barely enough to stop the financial bleeding of Florida's universities next semeste...
Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 [View Article]
By Jim Saunders and Mark Harper
Daytona Beach News Journal
TALLAHASSEE -- The list of 75 flagship universities reads like a who's who of public higher education in ...
Posted on Monday, September 24, 2007 [View Article]
Three national championships have secured the University of Florida's athletic reputation, but a departing professor fears the classrooms are being left behind.
By G...
Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 [View Article]
By STANLEY FISH
New York Times
August 1, 2007
Whenever I'm asked, and sometimes even before I'm asked, I advise parents of college-age children to not send the...
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 [View Article]
ORLANDO SENTINEL EDITORIAL
Our Position: No Matter What the Rankings Say, Florida Universities Need to Get Better.
August 18, 2007
A national news magazine'...
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 [View Article]
By KAREN BRANCH-BRIOSO The Tampa Tribune
Aug 2, 2007
TAMPA - A dozen Saint Leo University faculty members will leave for a 10-day research trip to Cuba next week.
...
Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2007 [View Article]
STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF FLORIDA
The Board of Governors has taken unprecedented actions to ensure that the State University System and its 11 institutions have the res...
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 [View Article]
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
7/27/07
Florida Universities Brace for Budget Cuts
By LYNDSEY LEWIS
In muggy Gainesville, Fla., where college sports reign ...
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 [View Article]
By ADAM EMERSON, The Tampa Tribune
Published: July 7, 2007
TAMPA - Former Gov. Bob Graham and a group of other influential Floridians sued the state Legislature on Frid...
Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 [View Article]
Monthly collections of general revenue have fallen for the third consecutive month, and the Governor and Legislature issued a joint message (see the attached file) for agenc...
Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 [View Article]
By ADAM EMERSON, The Tampa Tribune
Published: July 3, 2007
A planned tuition increase for fall 2008 is too late to fill a University of Florida budget gap that could r...
Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 [View Article]
TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT
Originally published May 2, 2007
Thrown a bone $1,000 bonus is an insult It's one thing when your loyal dog sits by the table wagging his tail in h...
Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 [View Article]
Tuition Increase a Possibility: Crist Likely to Veto House Measure
TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT
Originally published May 2, 2007
By Jim Ash
Florida Capital Bureau Chief
T...
Posted on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 [View Article]
March 1, 2007
Dear Colleagues,
By now you may have received voting information regarding the statewide elections for UFF (United Faculty of Florida). The election i...
Posted on Monday, March 5, 2007 [View Article]
Tom Auxter Statement
Roy Weatherford Statement
Posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 [View Article]
Late Pay Disrupts at FAMU
Handful of Teachers Leave Posts
Diane Hirth
Democrat Senior Writer
Feb 17, 2007
Two-thirds of more than 400 Florida A&M University employ...
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 [View Article]
By Diane Hirth
TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT
January 27, 2007
Faculty members at Florida A&M University approved their first contract since the FAMU board of trustees became th...
Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 [View Article]
The Liberal Art of Pricing an Education
By DIANE ROBERTS
Published January 28, 2007
St. Petersburg Times
They used to be called "students," those young 'uns in hoodie...
Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 [View Article]
Be More Ambitious
Our Position: Crist and Legislators Should Give Major Boost to State's Universities
Orlando Sentinel Editorial
January 26, 2007
A critique of Florida...
Posted on Sunday, January 28, 2007 [View Article]
By SHANNON COLAVECCHIO- VAN SICKLER
Published January 19, 2007
A consultant hired to evaluate Florida's higher education system says it is haphazard and poorly funded, ...
Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 [View Article]
Florida's Auxter Blasts Student Debt, Academic Staffing Policies
by Barbara McKenna
December 15, 2006
United Faculty of Florida president Tom Auxter gave U.S. educatio...
Posted on Thursday, January 4, 2007 [View Article]
Contract Victory for Broward Faculty
After months of struggle to gain approval of a collective bargaining contract negotiated with the College President in July, Broward fa...
Posted on Monday, November 27, 2006 [View Article]
Advocate Online
Speaking Out
Florida's Anti-Intellectualism
by Tom Auxter
At the end of the 2006 Florida legislative session, Governor Jeb Bush signed a bill that preve...
Posted on Saturday, November 4, 2006 [View Article]
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
October 13, 2006
BCC faculty picket on Davie campus over board's refusal to approve pact
By Douane D. James
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
...
Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 [View Article]
Daytona Beach News Journal
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Adjunct Pay Not Keeping Pace With Teaching Duties
MARK HARPER
Education Writer
DELTONA -- Earlier this year, ...
Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 [View Article]
The United Faculty of Florida Update, August/September 2006 Issue
Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 [View Article]
NEA Delegates
UFF senators sent a clear and strong message that they want UFF to mount a legal challenge to the Florida law that bans faculty travel to so-called "terror...
Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 [View Article]
ST. PETE TIMES
June 14, 2006
ACLU challenges law limiting college-paid trips
The law bans the use of public funds for travel to terrorist states, which the group cl...
Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 [View Article]
TO: University Faculty and Graduate Assistants
FROM: Tom Auxter, President, United Faculty of Florida
SUBJECT: Salary Raises
DATE: May 30, 2006
It's official. The Gov...
Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 [View Article]
TO: University Faculty
FROM: Tom Auxter, UFF President
DATE: May 4, 2006
SUBJECT: Salary Raises 2006-07
University faculty will receive a 3 % raise on October 1, as ...
Posted on Thursday, May 4, 2006 [View Article]
The United Faculty of Florida Update, March/April 2006 Issue
Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 [View Article]
Broad Coalition Decries Blacklist of Professors and Efforts to Limit Free Speech on Campus
Jamie Horwitz (AFT)
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A coalition of student, faculty an...
Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 [View Article]
Intelligent Design: A Trojan Horse?
From AFT On Campus
In Dover, Pa., eight school board members were voted out of office after requiring that teachers discuss intellig...
Posted on Monday, February 6, 2006 [View Article]
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Legislators Threaten Academic Freedom
by Tom Auxter
At the end of the 2005 legislative session, Rep. Dennis Baxley (R-Ocala) threatened to file his...
Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 [View Article]
Jan 28, 2006
USF, Faculty To Pursue Domestic Partner Benefits
By ADAM EMERSON
TAMPA - Inspired by peers and hoping to attract top professionals, the University of Sout...
Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 [View Article]
Dear UFF members,
I am writing to inform you of and to bring to your attention to the FAIR petition drive. FAIR stands for Floridians Against Inequities in Rates. http:/...
Posted on Friday, December 9, 2005 [View Article]
INSIDE HIGHER ED
August 4, 2005
FLORIDA'S FACULTY FREE FOR ALL
When Florida overhauled its higher education system to shift power from the State Board of Regents to...
Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2005 [View Article]
Campus Bargaining Generates Substantial Faculty Pay Raises, Faculty and Student Activism Defeats So-Called "Academic Bill of Rights" Legislation, and Florida Court Upholds F...
Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 [View Article]
TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT
FSU Faculty Stage Protest Over Pay
Tues. July 5, 2005
About two-dozen Florida State University professors marched across the Tallahassee campus Tu...
Posted on Sunday, July 10, 2005 [View Article]
MESSAGE FROM FEA PRESIDENT ANDY FORD
Welcome to the 2005 Florida Legislative Session. The FEA Frontline Report is a weekly legislative update designed to help our member...
Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 [View Article]
Florida Court Orders Restoration of Collective-Bargaining Rights to Faculty and Employee Unions
The Chronicle of Higher Education
By JOHN GRAVOIS
Two years after the S...
Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 [View Article]
The First District Court of Appeal ruling issued February 14, 2005, makes it clear that the effort of politicians to deny the collective bargaining rights of faculty and pub...
Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 [View Article]
Attached to this email please find the decision of Florida's First District Court of Appeals (released today) in what has come to be known as the "Successor Employer Case".
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Posted on Monday, February 14, 2005 [View Article]
Contents:
1. Newly Ratified USF Contract Expands Academic Freedom, Provides Pay Raise
2. District Court to Issue Successor Employer Ruling
3. Will Faculty Have Enforceabl...
Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 [View Article]
FACULTY VOTE TO RATIFY CONTRACT
The USF Chapter of the United Faculty of Florida has just sent out the following press release:
USF Faculty Union Ratifies Contract...
Posted on Monday, November 22, 2004 [View Article]
Dear Colleague:
For faculty in universities and colleges today, this will be the most important election of our lifetimes. Everything we care about in our professional l...
Posted on Friday, October 22, 2004 [View Article]
United Faculty of Florida Update
FAU Faculty Ratify First Contract with a Local Board
Faculty Battle for Rights at UF
CC Faculty Unions Set Example for Salary Gains
...
Posted on Friday, October 1, 2004 [View Article]
Union Busting at UF Attracts National Attention
UFF Defeats Proposal to Increase Health Care Costs for Faculty
Faculty Opposition Forces Board of Governors to Withdraw Sta...
Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 [View Article]
Colo. Court Revives Union Challenge on Dues Deduction
AFT Opposes 'Student Bill of Rights' for Higher Ed Act
Victor Valley Adjuncts Choose AFT
Bergen Nurses Eligible for ...
Posted on Sunday, June 13, 2004 [View Article]
Business Report
By Steve Clark
Louisiana has never been content to do things like other states. It makes us interesting. It causes problems.
Higher education, for i...
Posted on Monday, June 7, 2004 [View Article]
St. Pete Times
By ANITA KUMAR
University of South Florida president Judy Genshaft offered Friday to raise faculty pay 12 percent during the next three years to begin bo...
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 [View Article]
By JANINE YOUNG SIKES
Gainesvillesun.com
Making good on his promise, University of Florida President Bernie Machen announced Monday an $11.5 million pay package that co...
Posted on Monday, May 24, 2004 [View Article]
Federal Budget Proposal a Travesty, AFT Warns
AFT Leaders Revved Up for Election Campaign
On Anniversary of Brown v. Board, Gaps Remain
Pace Adjuncts Cast 2-to-1 Vote for...
Posted on Sunday, May 23, 2004 [View Article]
Colleagues,
Earlier this morning (5/6/04) the Akron-AAUP Negotiating Team presented our Administration counterparts with a proposed agreement (attached) under which the ...
Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 [View Article]
Beacon Journal
By Katie Byard
A group of University of Akron faculty members has asked Gov. Bob Taft to intervene in a dispute involving last year's formation of a unio...
Posted on Monday, April 19, 2004 [View Article]
By David Damron
Sentinel Staff Writer
Three years ago, the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs didn't even exist.
Now it has member...
Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2004 [View Article]
By Jennifer Peltz
Tallahassee Bureau
Perhaps it's little surprise that some state legislators want to promote familiarity with government.
A proposal (SB 1670) maki...
Posted on Monday, April 5, 2004 [View Article]
TIM KAUFFMAN, FEDERAL TIMES
The Defense Department is proposing to drastically cut the size and influence of its unions.
At least half of the more than 400,000 emplo...
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 [View Article]
UF-UFF
With angst growing among pro-union University of Florida faculty members, a vote to rehire or fire an organization that landed on campus about 30 years ago can't com...
Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 [View Article]
St. Pete Times
By ANITA KUMAR
The faculty union leader at the University of South Florida lashed out at the school's governing board Thursday, saying it is allowing USF...
Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2003 [View Article]
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