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 […]
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Academic employees (as opposed to Professional employees) represented by the UUP.
Dear Colleagues: 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 is the link to the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UUPAcadWorkloadUB In Solidarity, Ken KernChapter PresidentUUP Buffalo Center
Dear Colleagues, In keeping with the long-standing recommendation of the Faculty Senate asking for an annual meeting with the Chair of the PRB for department chairs and interested faculty, the Office of the Provost is sponsoring an open meeting for all interested university faculty and professional staff involved with faculty promotion & tenure matters. At […]
Dear Colleagues, The Buffalo Center is happy to announce the first in our series of workshops for the Spring 2021 semester: Topic: Intellectual Property – SUNY Policy and Your RightsPresenters: Jamie Dangler, UUP Statewide Vice President for Academics and Tara Singer-Blumberg, NYSUT Labor Relations SpecialistDate: Wednesday, February 17th, 2021Time: Noon – 2:00 p.m. Learn more about the following topics: Copyright and Patent […]
Dear Colleagues: UUP has negotiated an automatic COVID 19 tenure and promotion extension clock stop. The MOA between SUNY and UUP applies only to faculty on a tenure track as of May 6, 2020. This provides the tenure track faculty an additional year due to COVID 19. https://uupinfo.org/resources/covid19/pdf/TenureClockMOA.pdf There is also a provision to opt out of the automatic clock stop. If the […]
Dear Department Chairs, UUP invites you to attend a webinar to discuss issues confronting academic department chairs, including those pertaining to campus reopening in the COVID-19 context. The webinar will take place on June 25th at 1 pm. Instructions for joining are attached. At the start of the webinar UUP President Fred Kowal and Vice President for […]
Dear Colleagues, Please see the following information from Statewide Vice President for Academics, Jamie Dangler. This information is also for any professional staff that are teaching. In solidarity,Ken KernChapter PresidentUUP Buffalo Center______________________________________________________________________________ Dear UUP Chapter Leaders, Please see UUP’s new Special Bulletin on faculty courses and intellectual property concerns at the link below – and […]