FAMCO Wins Strong Contract for 2021-24
• FAMCO held ground and gained ground despite challenging times
• Significant across-the-board salary increases for all years of the contract
• Salary floors elevated for all ranks
• Healthcare premium freezes in the first year of the contract
• Healthcare Labor-Management Committee (LMC) established to re-envision costly and inadequate plan designs, including the need for: out-of-network benefits, lower premiums, better dental, and mental healthcare access
• Established Labor-Management Committee for Equity, Diversity and Anti-Racism in Hiring and Promotion and a formal Salary Equity Study
• Protected Faculty Autonomy & Academic Freedom including Intellectual property language included for the first time
• Established labor-management committee on course evaluations and peer evaluations • Financial exigency provision brought in line with AAUP standards
FAMCO Statement of Support for MU Black and African Diaspora Forum United (BADFU)
In the midst of the twin crises of COVID-19 and the plague of persistent racism that is so evident before us, FAMCO acknowledges the pain and anger expressed by our faculty, staff colleagues and students of color at Monmouth University.
We recognize that many among us are hurting in the wake of the recent racist violence, the police murders of black and brown people, the military attacks on racial justice protesters, and the latest news of racist social media attacks by members of the MU community.
As the Faculty Association of Monmouth University (FAMCO), we take the side of solidarity with our black and brown colleagues, students, and communities of color throughout the country; with all of our FAMCO members who are too often marginalized in the webs of systemic inequalities; and with all folks demanding decent livelihoods, to be free from illness, and for the basic right to live in safety and with human dignity.
In doing so, we pledge to continue the work of the FAMCO Diversity and Inclusion Committee and engage the University in immediate and long-term racial justice response planning. We welcome all of our members to join us in the necessary work to dismantle institutional, symbolic, and interpersonal racism at Monmouth University.
As part of that commitment, we affirm the recently-formed Black and African Diaspora Forum United (BADFU) at MU, an organization of Black/African American faculty, and their allies, that is particularly concerned with the challenges that Black and African Diaspora faculty, students, and staff face on our campus.
We commit to working together with BADFU as an organizational ally to identify and change institutional policies, practices, and procedures that perpetuate structural racism, and to increase participation, support, and power in all campus spaces for Black and African Diaspora faculty, students and staff.
The FAMCO Executive Committee
June 12, 2020
FAMCO – The Faculty Association of Monmouth University
The Faculty Association of Monmouth University is commonly called FAMCO, dating its name from its formation when Monmouth was a college.
FAMCO is a part of the AAUP and has been a major force in the development of professional standards and procedures at the University.
The association’s main responsibilities continue to be:
- negotiating agreements with the University that cover: salaries; benefits; procedures and standards for continuance; tenure and promotion; teaching loads; and service and scholarship requirements.
- protecting faculty members by providing interpretations of the Agreement and a grievance system.
- encouraging collegiality by holding open meetings, discussions, debates, and providing refreshments.
Events
Monthly membership meetings are held from 2:45 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.
Spring 2022
- Wednesday, January 19
- Wednesday, February 16
- Wednesday, March 16
- Wednesday, April 20
Why join the Union?
Because there is strength in numbers, and a strong union can …
- increase the power of faculty to bargain for better salaries, benefits, and working conditions;
- provide a powerful voice for faculty governance in university decision-making;
- protect academic freedom and ensure fair procedures for reappointment, tenure, and promotion;
- protect non-tenure track faculty against further shifts toward contingency;
- protect individual members through a formal contract grievance process;
- provide critical legal counsel on behalf of its interests in the grievance and negotiation process;
- increase our solidarity with our colleagues across campus employee unions to support equity for all;
- protect the dignity, autonomy, and status of the professoriate itself;
- push broadly for social justice in the face of troubling changes affecting higher education writ large.
How to become a member
Contact Dr. Johanna Foster, President, at jfoster@monmouth.edu or fill out the membership form.AAUP
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good.
AAUP Resources
AAUP Statement of Academic Freedom
AAUP Statement on Academic Unionism
AAUP State of the Profession reports
*Information about the NJ AAUP Council
Informal Glossary of AAUP Terms and Abbreviations
Academic Unionism Library
