Colleagues: As previously communicated to all of you, on April 18 representatives of the three employee unions at Montgomery College wrote to Dr. Jermaine Williams about our concerns with the administration’s decision not to drop students who are unvaccinated from classes. Allowing these students to attend classes weakens the safety net that we all agreed…
Montgomery County CouncilFY28 Operating Budget Public HearingTestimony of Karl Smith, MC F-T Faculty April 19, 2022 Dear Council Members, My name is Karl Smith. I’m a professor of history and political science at Montgomery College. I’m here today as a representative of the Montgomery College Chapter of AAUP. I came to Montgomery College in 2004…
From: Baldassano, Victoria ASent: Friday, January 21, 2022 10:21 AMTo: Full-Time Faculty <Full-TimeFaculty@montgomerycollege.edu>; Part-Time Faculty TP/SS <Part-timeFacultyTP_SS@montgomerycollege.edu>; Part-Time Faculty GT <Part-timeFacultyGT@montgomerycollege.edu>; Part-Time Faculty RV <Part-TimeFacultyRV@montgomerycollege.edu>; Takoma Park Staff <TPStaff@montgomerycollege.edu>; Rockville Staff <RVStaff@montgomerycollege.edu>; Germantown Staff <GTStaff@montgomerycollege.edu>Cc: Collette, Sherwin A <Sherwin.Collette@montgomerycollege.edu>; Brown, Monica R <monica.brown@montgomerycollege.edu>; Rai, Sanjay K <sanjay.rai@montgomerycollege.edu>; Anne McLeer <mcleera@seiu500.org>; Tropin, Mitchell J <mitchell.tropin@montgomerycollege.edu>; Edwards,…
From: Zarin, HarrySent: Friday, January 14, 2022 4:44 PMTo: Rai, Sanjay K <sanjay.rai@montgomerycollege.edu>; Brown, Monica R <monica.brown@montgomerycollege.edu>; Collette, Sherwin A <Sherwin.Collette@montgomerycollege.edu>Cc: Ulrich, Lori A <Lori.Ulrich@montgomerycollege.edu>; Standing, Christopher G <chris.standing@montgomerycollege.edu>; Baldassano, Victoria A <victoria.baldassano@montgomerycollege.edu>Subject: Follow-up to Our Meeting Monica, Sanjay, and Sherwin: Thank you for taking the time to review our memo of concern and for…
From: Zarin, HarrySent: Monday, January 10, 2022 2:20 PMTo: Rai, Sanjay K <sanjay.rai@montgomerycollege.edu>; Collette, Sherwin A <Sherwin.Collette@montgomerycollege.edu>; Brown, Monica R <monica.brown@montgomerycollege.edu>Cc: Cain, Stephen D <stephen.cain@montgomerycollege.edu>; Payne, George M <george.payne@montgomerycollege.edu>; Latimer, Margaret W <margaret.latimer@montgomerycollege.edu>; Stewart, Brad J <brad.stewart@montgomerycollege.edu>; Kelley, Kimberly B <kimberly.kelley@montgomerycollege.edu>; Standing, Christopher G <chris.standing@montgomerycollege.edu>; Baldassano, Victoria A <victoria.baldassano@montgomerycollege.edu>Subject: Letter of Concern All: I am…
(published with permission) Dear Mr. Roop. I wrote this as soon as I received your email regarding the AAUP contract agreement and the court’s decision to deny arbitration. I hesitated to send it for obvious reasons, but when I sent a draft to several colleagues on the faculty, they urged me to do so. Typical of…
Many thanks to the AAUP leadership and members for their willingness to fight this worthy cause on behalf of full time faculty and the college community as a whole. Everyone benefits when all are treated respectfully and are appropriately rewarded. I was able to make it to the Rockville meeting last night, and I just wanted…
As all of you know by now, the News 4 I-Team ran a story on the travel expenses of Dr. Pollard. Based on the e-mails and phone calls that members of the AAUP Executive Committee received we decided to conduct a survey in order to obtain your comments on the report. The survey results were…
Dear fellow AAUP members, I’m writing to call your attention to a recent essay appearing in MC’s Governance Connections, authored by Mr. Jason Rivera, College Council Chair. A link to the essay is found here: http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/EDU/Department.aspx?id=56199. Mr. Rivera reminds his readers three times in the first three paragraphs that “Academic Redesign is a Management right”. He…
