AFAC Meeting, April 1, 2022
All adjuncts welcome
UMBC Adjunct Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting
April 1, 2022, WebEx and in ADMIN 1005A
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
I. Adjunct Bonuses/COLA in 2023
a. 7.5% raise applied to Spring 2023 and moving forward
b. Confirming all departments in your college notified adjuncts?
II. Sub-Committee Reports
a. Advocacy Sub-Committee
1. Updates?
b. Spring Workshop Sub-committee
1. Need to pick a date (mid to late April)
2. “Teacherpreneurship”
III. Spring Initiatives
a. Academic year contracts working with Provost’s office to uncover why people aren’t doing it, answer those concerns, and roll out to all colleges by Fall 2022.
1. Matt Baker working with MLLI to establish year long contracts (awaiting update)
IV. Elections & Addendums to by-laws (continued with discussion and vote)
a. Think we should hold elections for AFAC in early April (rather than May)
b. Think we should codify election dates in our by-laws
c. Elect chair in beginning of semester (nominations first meeting/vote by second meeting?)
d. Would like to add a provision that the chair along with the committee member(s) of the particular college can nominate a candidate to fill a vacated seat with the majority approval of that nomination by the committee and Provost
1) This would make it easier to make sure we stay in compliance with by-law requiring a full committee
e. No individual shall serve as the chairperson for more two consecutive two-year terms (revised language on Google drive for discussion)
V. New Business
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