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What's New

FIVE UVM STUDENTS AWARDED UA SCHOLARSHIPS
For more information on the awards and recipients click here.
UA WELCOMES PATTI GANNON, OUR NEW ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT!
Patti maintains UA's also new UVM office, located in the basement of Waterman, room 123C.
For office hours and contact info click here.
UNITED ACADEMICS WEIGHS IN ON PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH:
As the search for UVM's next President entered the final stages, UA's Executive Council sent a letter to the Board of Trustees outlining UA's concerns and candidate endorsements on January 31; UA President David Shiman followed with remarks delivered at the Board of Trustees meeting on February 4.
To read the letter, click here. To read Pres. David Shiman's remarks, click here
FULL-TIME FACULTY RATIFY NEW CONTRACT:
After ten months of negotiations and mediation sessions, UA's full-time faculty overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract with the University of Vermont on Dec. 5. To read the press release, click here.

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UA faculty cheer on our negotiating team members as they head into a bargaining session on May 16, 2011.

UA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL LENDS SUPPORT TO THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT:
To read the statement the UA Executive Council sent to the press on Nov. 3, click here.

UA EXPRESSES DISMAY TO TRUSTEES ABOUT COMPENSATION PACKAGE OFFERED TO PRESIDENT FOGEL
"The Board of Trustees should be ashamed and embarrassed to offer a compensation package that includes seventeen months of administrative leave at a salary of $27,000 per month plus a housing allowance and other 'perks,'" according to a letter from UA to the Board of Trustees on July 27, 2011. "In addition, the future salary of $195,000 to be paid Professor Fogel is totally out of line with salaries paid to faculty in the humanities at UVM." To read the letter, click here.

CON JOB: STORIES OF ADJUNCT AND CONTINGENT LABOR
This documentary video, by Megan Fulwiler and Jennifer Marlow, addresses the pedagogical and ethical implications of higher education's growing reliance on contingent labor. To view the video, click here.