Dear Colleagues, The UB Individual Development Award (IDA) committee received notice that the final approvals from NYS GOER will be completed this week. Award letters will be sent out soon after we get the approvals. The committee would like to express our apologies for the delays due to the added GOER approval process. In Solidarity, […]
Category: Academics
Academic employees (as opposed to Professional employees) represented by the UUP.
Dear Colleagues, Online Program Management (OPM) providers are a growing segment of service providers that work with colleges and universities globally to take new academic programs online. Online program offerings continue to evolve and expand across SUNY. Attached are two documents with regards to OPM’s. One is a Tip Sheet in which CATT was instrumental […]
Dear Colleagues, After the university ran the compression analysis for this year, your Buffalo Center Chapter learned that all clinical faculty had erroneously been excluded. This impacted almost 200 of our members. The Chapter worked with the university and had a new run done for everyone in that title. Earlier this week, clinical faculty who […]
COACHE Survey
Dear Colleagues, Your UUP Buffalo Center Chapter is encouraging all full-time faculty to complete the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) survey. A recent UB Now article on the COACHE Survey can be found at: https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2022/02/coache.html Faculty staff should have received an e-mail with your unique link to the survey. If you do not see it in […]
Dear Colleagues, Please see the following update on your upcoming contract negotiations from Statewide President Fred Kowal and Chief Negotiator Bret Benjamin. Additional town halls have been scheduled based on position: Dear Colleagues, Over the last couple of weeks, we sent emails to our widest membership list with information about the upcoming negotiations constituency town […]
Dear Faculty: We are writing to follow-up about our brief workload survey that we sent out in the Spring of this year. Thanks very much to those who took the time to respond. In this email we’d like to report back about some of the responses we received, explain how the Buffalo Center chapter of […]
Dear Colleagues, Your UUP Buffalo Center Chapter is in need of 2 Faculty member volunteers to serve on the Individual Development Awards Committee (IDA), a joint Labor/Management Committee. This committee is responsible for administering and reviewing the individual development award process offered by UUP. This committee is made up of UUP members who will work with management to determine how the awards are administered. Please […]
Dear Faculty: The UUP would like to know if you have experienced an increased or unreasonable workload. The recent and ongoing Covid pandemic has encouraged an enormous shift to online teaching for virtually every faculty member. As of this writing, the University is planning on an “in person” semester for the Fall, and a return […]
Dear Colleagues, This is a final reminder for Academic Staff to take advantage of the Academic Workload Survey. In response to further identify academic staff’s individual concerns about workload, your Buffalo Center Chapter has worked with UUP’s Research Department, and has developed a survey for Academic members to complete. I would like to encourage everyone to complete this survey no later than Friday, March 26th. […]
Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder for Academic Staff to take advantage of the Academic Workload Survey. In response to further identify academic staff’s individual concerns about workload, your Buffalo Center Chapter has worked with UUP’s Research Department, and has developed a survey for Academic members to complete. I would like to encourage everyone to complete this survey no later than Friday, March 26th. Here […]