The USF Presidential Search goes into Hyperdrive Next Week
The week of March 18, the USF Presidential Search Committee will meet on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and the Board of Trustees will meet on Friday to interview candidates. The meetings will be in USF Tampa Sam Gibbons Traditions Hall, except that on Thursday...
UFF USF Election–The Ballots Are in the Mail
You should be receiving a ballot for the UFF USF Chapter election early this week (March 11-13). They will arrive in 9 x 11 envelopes. Inside there will be a white instruction sheet and a blue ballot. Fill in both sides of the ballot. There are candidates for four...
$500 Travel Grants for UFF Members
The USF Chapter of the UFF will award six $ 500 Travel Scholarships for summer and fall. This will be for travel for participation in a professional activity. All applications are due by Wednesday, April 17, and only UFF members are eligible. In addition, no recipient...
Chapter Meeting on Friday, March 8@12:00 PM on the Tampa Campus
The next chapter meeting will be on Friday, March 8 at noon, in EDU 317 on the Tampa Campus. There will be free lunch. Come and join in the conversation!
Your Union Needs You! Consider Running for Office.
This blog post is to UFF members. You do your part, paying dues, but the union is all of us, working together. We are a volunteer organization, and we need volunteers. Since this is election season, we ask you to consider helping out by running for an office or a...
Chapter Meeting on Friday, February 22nd on the Tampa Campus
Mark your calendars! the next USF UFF Chapter meeting is Friday, February 22nd at noon on the Tampa Campus in the education building, EDU 317. The meeting offers updates on union activities (the upcoming election, collective bargaining, and more), and...
Join UFF Today!
Joining USF's chapter of UFF offers you several benefits. Here are a few for you to consider: Representation in grievances. UFF cannot represent a non-member in a grievance or litigation. The right to run and vote for office in the UFF chapter and in statewide...
Consolodation and Union News
Consolidation and Union News There are a lot of details to work out, but the picture of a consolidated University of South Florida is beginning to gel. One geographically distributed pre-eminent (high-impact) research university in which individual campuses preserve...
Call for Nominations
Image creditIt's election time for the UFF USF Chapter, and time to ask UFF USF members to consider running for office or representative seats. All dues paying UFF USF members, and only dues paying UFF USF members, may run and vote in this election. The deadline...
$500 Travel Grants for UFF Members
The USF Chapter of the UFF will award six $ 500 Travel Scholarships for summer and fall. This will be for travel for participation in a professional activity. All applications are due by Wednesday, April 17, and only UFF members are eligible. In addition, no recipient...
USF UFF Elections
Eighty percent of life, said Woody Allen, is showing up. That goes for unions and universities as well. Both the faculty union and the faculty governance system - currently with three senates and a council on top - are participatory democracies in the sense that the...
Start the New Year by Attending a USF UFF Chapter Meeting!
The first USF UFF Chapter Meeting of the year will be Friday, January 11 at noon at the CDB Restaurant (at 5140 E. Fowler Ave., Temple Terrace.) There will be free lunch. Come and join the conversation!
Tenure and Promotion Series
Tenure and Promotion Newsletter Series on Performance, Evaluations, and the Reward Structure: Raises, Renewals, Tenure and PromotionThe newsletter is running a series of article on job performance, how it is evaluated, and how evaluations are translated into raises,...
Trustees’ bargaining team note to faculty
After the bargaining session this afternoon and a few minutes before I sent out a bargaining update, the Trustees’ Chief Negotiator sent the following out to in-unit faculty:On behalf of the USF Board of Trustees’ bargaining team, I am pleased to share the...
Collective bargaining session July 11
The next collective bargaining session between UFF-USF and the USF Board of Trustees will be July 11, 3-5 pm, in SVC 2080.
Bargaining session, June 11, 2008
The bargaining teams for UFF-USF and the Board of Trustees met this afternoon. Before the meeting, the chief negotiator for the BOT team let UFF-USF know that they were waiting until the BOT approved the 2008-09 budget before presenting proposals on the salaries and...
Domestic partner health insurance committee finishes work
At the end of the fall, the joint USF-UFF committee to look at domestic partner health insurance benefits submitted its recommendations to both sides. At the March 7, 2008, collective bargaining session, the UFF team put language almost identical to the committee...
UFF First VP nominations due February 4 (statewide by-election)
The United Faculty of Florida is conducting an election for the statewide office of UFF First Vice President. The elected candidate will fill the vacant office and serve the remaining term through August 14, 2009. Two versions of the nomination form are attached. The...