Chapter Elections, 2025–2027 Cycle
Read the March Election Edition of The Forum, the UUP Albany Chapter newsletter. A large print version is also available.

• March 12–14: Chapter election ballots will be mailed out to members’ home addresses.
• April 18: Return ballots must be received (not postmarked) at the UUP Central Office by 5:00 p.m.

Kill the Cuts — Save Lifesaving Research, Healthcare, and Education! By cutting funds to lifesaving research and medical care, the federal administration is abandoning families who are suffering and costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Join research, healthcare, and education workers across the country to demand NO cuts to education and research. Rally on April 8th, noon to 1 p.m., at the Uptown Campus Center Small Fountain. RSVP here. More info at killthecuts.org

Be part of the discussion at Breaking Isolation & Fostering Connections in Challenging Times: Addressing Moral Injury in the Academy, an Interactive University Senate Forum, co-sponsored by UUP, Thursday April 3, 2025, 3–5 p.m. in the Standish Room (Science Library), Zoom option available. Here is a flyer with registration link and additional details.

Part-Time Academics Information Sessions, March 28 at 9:30 a.m. and April 7 at 12:00 p.m. In these virtual workshops, designed specifically for part-time academics in the UUP bargaining unit, we will discuss the Union and attendees will have the opportunity to raise questions and concerns specific to part-time UUP academic employees. Please RSVP at submit your questions at bit.ly/uupinfoptac.

UUP Press Conference on Federal Research Grant Funding. UUP will hold a press conference on Thursday, March 27, at noon, on the first floor of the ETEC building. Hear from researchers about how threats to federal grant funding are impeding critical, life-saving research.

All are invited to join UUP Members for Evening of Art & Community — an informal exhibition tour of History Lessons by Associate Curator and UUP Member, Robert R. Shane, March 27, 2025 4–6 p.m. at the UAlbany Museum in the Fine Arts Building. Please RSVP here.

UUP’s popular monthly Pre-Retirement Workshops are ongoing and include information on Healthcare/Medicare and union benefits (dental & vision). Take the workshops as often as you wish and feel free to have your spouse/partner attend. For this and other UUP programing visit the UUP Events Calendar. Register there and a Zoom link will be sent to your email the day before the workshop.

Attend UUP’s Virtual Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Workshops online by registering at the UUP Events Calendar.

Want to learn more about UUP? Join us online for UUP 101 by registering at the UUP Events Calendar.

Do you understand your UUP benefits? Learn about them by registering for the online Know Your Benefits workshop at the UUP Events Calendar.

Campus Equity Week, October 21–25, 2024
Contingents keep UAlbany running. Anyone without permanent appointment or on the tenure track is a contingent employee. Nearly 1 in 2 faculty members are contingent. They taught 62% of sections and seminars last Spring and that number has been growing for decades. Our coaches, who consistently lead our students to victory and shower the university in good press, are contingent employees. Many more assistant and associate staff members, clinical faculty, and visiting assistant professors are contingents. Our current contract has brought a lot more money to contingent employees, but we have a long way to go. Equity week is all about putting these issues front-and-center and building our power for the next contract fight. If you want to organize to make UAlbany a better place for contingents consider joining the new contingent concerns committee that is forming soon. To get on the list, please fill out this short form.