Negotiations Update

We continue to talk with the administration about the process of negotiations and look to begin open bargaining sessions by the end of this month.  Our data and research team, contract campaign team, and organizing committee are all hard at work and welcome your participation!  Contact TAUP if you are interested!

Tenure Track (Feb. 13) and Non-Tenure Track (Feb 28) Happy Hours!

This semester, each of the TAUP Constituency Councils will be holding a happy hour event at a conveniently located venue.  It’s a great opportunity to get together with colleagues from across the University, ask questions about TAUP, meet the people who represent your constituency in the union, discuss issues that you’d like them to know about, or just have a nice time chatting with some very interesting people. Everyone in the TAUP bargaining unit is welcome, whether you’re a dues paying member or not, and the first drink is on us!

Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Happy Hour:

Wednesday, February 13th from 4-6pm

Draught Horse Pub and Grill

1431 Cecil B. Moore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19121

Non-Tenure Track (NTT) Happy Hour:

Thursday, February 28th from 5-7pm

Draught Horse Pub and Grill

1431 Cecil B. Moore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19121

General Membership Meeting

The next General Membership Meeting will be on February 15th from 2-4 p.m. in Paley Library’s Lecture Hall. Come join us to receive an update on negotiations. The TAUP members involved in the work toward negotiations are eager to listen to your questions and feedback.   RSVP to the  TAUP Office.

TAUP and Temple Student Government Give Back

The Art Hochner Travel Award, Scholarship for Children of Members, and the FAST Fund for students in need, TSG Ignite a Movement Scholarship

As we reported last September, TAUP is dedicated to helping students in our community gain access to education and our faculty to develop professionally.  Along with the FAST Fund, established by TAUP member Sara Goldrick-Rab (Education and Sociology), which has helped over 10 students in bad financial straits stay in school, and our scholarship for children of members, we have this year awarded our first two Art Hochner Travel Awards to defray travel to conferences for full-time non-tenure track and adjunct faculty, who typically do not have access to funding from their departments.

Among the inaugural recipients was Dr. Isabelle Chang, an assistant professor (teaching/instruction) in Psychology; she will be presenting  “It all adds up: A comparison of eighth-graders’ mathematics achievement around the world” at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) in Washington, D.C. next month.

The second awardee is Dr. Adam Vidiksis, assistant professor (teaching/instruction) in Music Technology and Director of the Boyer Electroacoustic Ensemble Project (BEEP).  He presented one of his compositions at the International Computer Music Conference in Daegu, South Korea in August of 2018.  Their work and photos of the teams they led can be found here.  One gratifying element of both projects is that they included Temple students, showing the crucial relationship between teaching, research, and creative activity.  The application process for this coming year can be found here; applications will be due at the end of September.

Finally, we want to call your attention to a scholarship that Temple Student Government (TSG) is establishing.  Called the Ignite a Movement Scholarship, it will provide $5,000 to a housing- and/or food-insecure student.  More information can be found here.  We urge you to donate to the FAST Fund, Ignite a Movement, or both!

Volunteer for Phone Banking

Learn how to have efficient and effective organizing conversations with your colleagues, and then put that knowledge to work by making phone calls to faculty, academic staff, and librarians. We’ll be finding out which workplace issues matter most to our colleagues, and asking them to join our union! Fridays through February and March from 12-3pm in Anderson 1138. RSVP here.