Vision We, the United Academics of UNM, strive to empower teaching and research faculty at the University of New Mexico. Faculty working conditions have a direct impact on student learning conditions and, as those entrusted with the research and teaching mission of the university, faculty need a strong voice in decisions concerning UNM’s future. By building our union for faculty voice, we are working to ensure that the university honors its commitment to the diverse communities we serve. Together, our pursuit of collective bargaining and a seat at the table is aimed to: Ensure shared governance and transparency in decision making Provide a fair and equitable workplace and learning environment Establish a fair process to address compensation, benefits, and grievance procedures Protect academic freedom, open inquiry, and free speech Foster diversity and serve vulnerable populations Recruit and retain outstanding faculty Through a united commitment to workplace protections, we can safeguard the promise of our university for the public good.

Spring 2024 Elections Our next UA-UNM election will take place April 22-29, 2024, when members will elect officers, Representative Assembly members, and Equity Representatives to lead our union for a two-year term. Please consider nominating yourself or someone else for an office or Representative Assembly seat. Nomination forms are due March 20 at 11:59 pm. Descriptions of positions are available in the Sum mary of Officer and Assembly Member Duties . Statements from all candidates are forthcoming. Voting will take place online, using the same third-party online platform (OpaVote) used for previous elections and ratifications. Eligible voting members will receive an email with instructions and the link to vote on April 22, so please check your spam and junk filters to make sure you do not miss the link to vote. Additional information about the election process and descriptions of positions are available in the Summary of Officer and Assembly Member Duties and in the Constitution , while the composition of the Representative Assembly is described in the UA-UNM Bylaws.

Spring 2024 Elections Our next UA-UNM election will take place April 22-29, 2024, when members will elect officers, Representative Assembly members, and Equity Representatives to lead our union for a two-year term. Voting will take place online, using the same third-party online platform (OpaVote) used for previous elections and ratifications. Eligible voting members will receive an email with instructions and the link to vote on April 22, so please check your spam and junk filters to make sure you do not miss the link to vote. CANDIDATE STATEMENTS Keri Stevenson | Vice President, Gallup Campus I wish to continue representing the Gallup faculty's voice in our larger union. This is more urgent than ever as we enter rebargaining for our entire contract. Gallup faculty deserve continued protection for an equitable workload and grievance procedures, and increased protections such as greater adjunct pay and job security, as well as administration transparency. We also deserve the chance to work with people from other branches and know our voices are being heard in discussions about compensation and other matters with Albuquerque administration. As a more distant branch from the central campus, we had felt isolated and ignored in the years before the union. I am committed to ensuring that Gallup faculty continue to receive solidarity from our union comrades, and that we can offer solidarity in return. Laura Haniford | Representative Assembly College of Education, Unit 1 TEELP, COEHS I have been proud to serve as the unit 1 rep for the COEHS for the past two years. I have learned a great deal about what it means to represent faculty and have worked to ensure faculty voice is present, heard, and respected. Through our work, I have come to know the faculty in our college and have fought to ensure your impressive work and expertise are acknowledged. If re-elected, I will continue to fight for all of us and for our college. We are stronger together. Richard Obenauf | Representative Assembly Honors College, Unit 2 Honors College I have been contingent faculty in Honors since 2010. In this time, I have had many conversations with other adjuncts about their needs, hopes, and frustrations, and I have experienced firsthand the lack of respect from the university. I have seen friends quit their jobs here due to a lack of institutional support. Working conditions have begun to improve since faculty voted to form our union—the only pay raises I have received since 2010 were directly due to our union. I am committed to advocating for our rights and well-being. Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. The university’s desire to be more inclusive will need to begin by paying a wage to all faculty so that all qualified scholars can afford to teach here and so that contingent faculty can work without fear of retaliation from students or administrators. For too long the university has balanced its budget on our backs. Our union’s immediate goal is to get the university to pay a living wage to adjuncts. The union’s ultimate goal is to achieve pay parity for contingent faculty on par with our tenure-track counterparts. I have been a champion of this cause while serving as your representative for the last year, and this is why I want to continue serving as your Unit II union representative for the Honors College. Manel Martinez-Ramon | Vice President Albuquerque Campus Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering As a VP for the campus of Albuquerque, I will continue fighting for the faculty. I have been a member of the Bargaining Committee and of the Labor-Management Committee, from which we have achieved significant salary raises across the board and several agreements with the administration that improved the working conditions of the faculty. I will collaborate in achieving agreements to create clear, transparent merit and equity compensation policies and to contain the increases in our health insurance premiums. Also, I will work to improve the salaries and conditions of the contracts for our adjuncts and part-time faculty. I will continue working to increase the number of faculty that actively support UAUNM in our campus. Saurabh Ahluwalia | Treasurer Finance and Innovation Dept., Anderson School of Management As a candidate for the treasurer position, my foremost goal is to ensure transparent, efficient, and responsible management of our union's financial resources. Drawing upon my extensive experience in finance, both in academic and corporate world, I am committed to safeguarding the financial well-being of our union while also fostering greater member engagement and satisfaction. My dedication to open communication and collaboration will enable me to work closely with union members and leadership to address their needs and concerns regarding financial matters. I am deeply invested in advocating for fair and equitable compensation for all educators, as well as securing resources to support professional development opportunities and other initiatives that enhance the quality of our work environment. If elected, I pledge to uphold the highest standards of integrity and accountability, working tirelessly to advance the interests of our union and its members. Together, we can build a stronger, more resilient union that empowers educators and elevates our profession. Scott Kamen | Vice President, Valencia Campus Social Sciences, Valencia I have been actively involved in UA-UNM since I started as an Assistant Professor of History at UNM-Valencia in Fall 2019 and have been UA-UNM Vice President for the Valencia campus since the position was established in 2022. My experiences in this position—and particularly, my time at the bargaining table with administration—have helped me to see why our union is necessary to ensure a faculty voice at UMM and why our membership is the foundation of everything our union does. If re-elected as Vice President (Valencia), my primary goal is to improve the working conditions of our most vulnerable faculty. Ever since I first became active in UA-UNM, I have been continually impressed by the degree to which our union has prioritized the concerns of branch faculty and part-time faculty. UA-UNM has included branch and part-time faculty in ways that I simply have not seen in other arenas within the UNM system. Still, this kind of culture of inclusion will not endure indefinitely without efforts to maintain and further it. As Vice President (Valencia), I would aim to increase membership numbers and membership involvement on the Valencia campus and the broader UNM system. I believe that the ongoing organization of faculty at all of UNM’s campuses can ensure that our union works for all of our faculty, not just those who are already the most privileged. Satya Witt | Representative Assembly College of Arts and Sciences, Unit 1 College of Arts and Sciences I served as a UA-UNM bargaining team member since January 2020 and co-signed the Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) for Units 1 and 2 in June 2021. As the only faculty member participating in these efforts at the Lecturer rank, I was a fierce advocate for our non-tenure track faculty, part-time instructors, and adjuncts. Since the ratification of our CBAs, I have served as chair of the Labor Management Committee, which is tasked with addressing issues of concern regarding terms and conditions of employment and the interpretation and effectuation of our CBAs. Through the efforts of the Labor Management Committee, we have negotiated 5 Memoranda of Agreement that have led to improvements in the parental leave benefit for our Unit 1 members, professional development opportunities for our Unit 2 members, as well as other improvements to our CBAs. I have also participated on the ad-hoc bargaining teams that have negotiated agreements that provided 7.12% across-the-board salary increase for all unit members in 2022, and that established new minimum pay rates for both units as well as 6% and 8% across the board increases for Units 1 and 2 respectively in 2023. If elected as a member of the Representative Assembly for the College of Arts and Sciences, I will aim to inform our members of their rights and benefits under our CBA and continue to provide a voice for our members in negotiations with the administration. Nahir Otano Gracia | Representative Assembly Equity Seat English, Arts&Science, Albuquerque I stand for equity and justice, especially for People of Color, graduate students, and our Trans brothers and sisters. I promise to be a pain in the ass to my colleagues when they don't center these issues as they should be centered. Anicca Cox | Representative Assembly Valencia Campus, Unit 1 English, Humanities, Valencia Campus My experience in union work has been both as a member of an academic union on the faculty side and as a graduate student member who served as a contract negotiator alongside my union siblings at Michigan State University. In that work, I learned several valuable lessons which I would bring to the rep position. Those are chiefly, the value of coalition building and building collective power, and the scale and scope of change over time. In addition, my primary research is in labor equity in the academy, and in my discipline of writing studies. I approach labor work from a feminist, intersectional lens, that acknowledges the values, perspectives and standpoints of groups of workers. My goals in this position are fairly pragmatic--I would like to build capacity here at our campus by growing our membership, through hallway conversations, door-knocking and bringing union news to our faculty. Next, I would like to focus on increasing representation of our branch to the larger campus and union, and finally, I look forward to collaborating with our other rep to foreground issues of part-time faculty on our campus. A larger goal is to connect our campus to some of the political action initiatives of our union. Karen Walter | Representative Assembly, Valencia Campus, Unit 2 Social Sciences, Valencia I am honored to be able to participate in the progressive equity work being done by UA-UNM both on our campus and statewide. Additionally, I am new to the work and very excited to be a part of something historically on the side of justice and fairness. I have noticed, more than ever, Union participation from local cultural events in New Mexico, to a wide variety of national and global media representations. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to be a part of something I feel so strongly about here in my home State. The promise I make to myself and my colleagues is to be present, listen, and work with integrity and authenticity. I continue that promise with the work I do here with UA-UNM as well. Beth Ratay | Vice President, Unit 2 Music Department, College of Fine Arts I am in my second year of teaching as an Adjunct Instructor at UNM. I teach Theory and Composition for the Music Department, and have my doctorate in World Music Composition from the University of California, Santa Cruz. I have taught as an adjunct for over ten years at six different colleges including colleges in Massachusetts and California. The colleges in those states have strong unions, so I have first-hand experience of what a great union can accomplish. I have also served as the Union Representative for the College of Fine Arts at Gavilan College in Gilroy, California. As the Vice President for Unit 2, my highest priority will be working to get adjuncts paid a living wage. Other issues I hope to address include compensation for canceled classes, addressing reasonable workloads for adjunct instructors, and job security for long-term adjunct instructors. I am a great listener and a great problem solver and I want to use those skills, in addition to my previous union experience, to help build a more equitable future for our faculty. Please give me the opportunity to work for you. Gary Cook | Vice President, Taos Art Department, UNM-Taos I have been the UA-UNM Taos Vice President for three years, at UNM since 2001. My primary goals for the coming year are to increase Union participation at UNM-Taos and to give voice and support to our collective concerns regarding job security, work load, and pay. Glenn Koelling | Representative Assembly, College of University Libraries & Learning, Unit 1 College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences I've served in this role for the past two years and have enjoyed making connections within the union on behalf of CULLS faculty. I hope to continue to represent CULLS' interests -- perhaps especially since librarian faculty have unique needs. Jesús Costantino | Representative Assembly Equity Seat English Language & Literature, College of A&S, Albuquerque A core mission of UA-UNM is to give faculty a more meaningful and powerful voice. I see the equity seats in the Representative Assembly as an important way to ensure that the concerns of faculty of color are heard within and addressed by that collective voice. Paula Corbin Swalin | Representative Assembly College of Fine Arts, Unit 1 Music, College of Fine Arts, Albuquerque Campus It is an honor to be considered for this position. For the past year and a half, I've served as the Unit 2 VP, participating in UA-UNM legislative efforts, compensation bargaining, and the Labor Management Committee. I credit my UA-UNM membership and service as a catalyst for promotion from many years of adjunct employment to a continuing lecturer position. Though I have moved to Unit 1, many years as an adjunct provided first-hand awareness of our Unit 2 members' challenges. If elected, I plan to continue advocating for Unit 2 faculty, actively serving on committees, and building our member density, which continues to be a most important issue. Thank you for considering my candidacy for UA-UNM service. Ernesto Longa | President, School of Law If re-elected President of UA-UNM, I will continue to fight and advocate for academic freedom for all, improved compensation and benefits, equal pay for equal work, pathways to longer-term contracts for our adjunct and contingent faculty, improved workload policies, and proportional pay for overloads and summer administrative work. Jessica Goodkind | Secretary, Sociology I strongly believe in the importance of collective organizing and have been an active member in several unions. While in graduate school at Michigan State University, I helped to form the gradate employee union (GEU), which includes thousands of graduate employees. I was involved in organizing and served as the President of GEU when we obtained our first contract. After completing my PhD, I was a faculty member at California State University East Bay for two years, during which time I served as the Secretary of our chapter of the California Faculty Association union. In addition, I was active in our organizing efforts for UA-UNM. I am running for Secretary of UA-UNM because I want to become more involved in our union. I know that we can be more effective instructors and scholars and can better serve our students, communities, and the university when we have good working conditions. If elected Secretary, I will strive to support our union’s efforts for clear, transparent, and engaging communication. Chris Holden | Representative Assembly Honors College, Unit 1 I'm seeking to represent Unit I faculty in UNM's Honors College within UAUNM. I've served as Unit I rep. for the last two years and hope to have been successful in this as a conduit for faculty needs, information source for faculty with concerns and as an active member of UAUNM. Although not officially a Unit 2 rep. I believe I've also been helpful in articulating the needs of Unit 2 faculty in Honors, helping them to work through some relevant issues, and I hope to continue supporting them in the next term. I am proud to serve the Honors College and UNM in this capacity.

UA-UNM Bylaws Article I. Composition of the Representative Assembly A. Eligibility for Representative Assembly The Representative Assembly shall consist of: Elected officers (President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Vice-Presidents); academic unit representatives (campuses, colleges and schools); and at-large, equity representatives. B. Academic Unit Representatives 1. Only academic units with members in good standing shall be assigned seat(s) in the representative assembly. 2. Academic units with members in good standing from Bargaining Unit 1, but none from Bargaining Unit 2, shall only be assigned seat(s) to represent Bargaining Unit 1. Likewise, academic units with members in good standing from Bargaining Unit 2, but none from Bargaining Unit 1, shall only be assigned seat(s) to represent Bargaining Unit 2. 3. Academic units with members in good standing from both Bargaining Unit 1 and Bargaining Unit 2 shall be assigned a minimum of 2 seats: One seat to represent the members in good standing of Bargaining Unit 1; and one seat to represent the members in good standing of Bargaining Unit 2. 4. After the minimum number of seats have been assigned to each academic unit with members in good standing, an additional seat shall be assigned to that academic unit, on average, for every twenty-five additional members in good standing. 5. The number of members in good standing per academic unit shall be based on our membership records sixty (60) days prior to the election. C. Equity Representatives The following factors shall be considered in determining the number of seats to assign to at-large equity representatives: The proportion of BIPOC faculty among our bargaining unit members, over the previous two-year term, as reported by the University of New Mexico’s Office of Institutional Analytics; and the proportion of BIPOC faculty who served as academic unit representatives during the previous two-year term.

Other Agreements Reached Memoranda of Understanding COVID Unit 1 Spring 2021 COVID Unit 2 Spring 2021 Temporary and Voluntary Reduction in FTE for Unit 1, Spring 2021 COVID Unit 1 Fall 2020 COVID Unit 2 Fall 2020 Voluntary Early Retirement Joint Communications COVID Spring 2021 Joint Communication 2020

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The Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Caucus is a gathering of BIPOC faculty that promotes a strong sense of community, professional welfare, development, and advocacy for BIPOC faculty and the issues that concern and affect us. We strive to address quality of life issues specific to BIPOC faculty, to mobilize our collective voices to improve our working conditions at the University of New Mexico, to help faculty with professional development at UNM, and to encourage higher participation in union membership and in union leadership by BIPOC faculty. If you are a UA-UNM faculty member who identifies as BIPOC and would like to get involved, you are encouraged to send an email to unmbipocc@gmail.com .

National Affiliations National unions provide resources and community in our organizing efforts, as well as after recognition and a first contract. Two leading national unions in higher education, the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors, have partnered successfully in organizing efforts at multiple R1 (Highest Research Activity) and R2 (Higher Research Activity) universities, including Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, the University of Alaska, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Vermont. Other faculty unions with joint AFT-AAUP affiliation include Rutgers University and Wayne State University. What is the American Federation of Teachers? The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is a union of professionals that champions fairness, democracy, economic opportunity, high-quality public education, healthcare, and public services for our students, their families, and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining, and political activism, and especially through the work our members do. AFT has over 1.8 million members in more than 3,200 locals with 40 state federations in higher education, early childhood education, K-12 schools, healthcare and public services. AFT Higher Education represents over 230,000 higher education employees in about 320 locals, and include full-and part-time faculty, professional staff, and graduate employees. AFT is headed by an executive board elected by the membership at a biennial national convention, and the AFT Higher Education Program and Policy Council is made up of members from across the United States and represent the interests of higher education members to the larger organization. AFT New Mexico is a union of educators affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. AFT NM represents more than 23,000 public education employees in early childhood education centers, K-12 schools, colleges, and universities. What is the American Association of University Professors? 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. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country’s colleges and universities. AAUP has over 50,000 members in both collective bargaining and advocacy chapters around the United States. With union chapters throughout the country, the AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress (AAUP-CBC) is a member-led organization committed to strengthening the voice of faculty. The AAUP-CBC is proud of the successful joint organizing efforts with the AFT, including the recent win at Oregon State University.

Gallery Events Union gatherings provide a space for members to connect on issues that impact their students and community.

Faculty Bargaining Units, Contracts, and Agreements We are thrilled to announce that after 17 months of bargaining, hundreds of hours in bargaining sessions, and a week of meetings and presentations with membership, we have ratified our first union contract through a vote of majority support from members and signed both agreements with the Administration. Read the full contract and highlights below for more information. Ratified and Signed Contract between UA-UNM and Administration for Unit 1 (full-time) Bargaining Unit 1 Faculty consists of all faculty members with the titles of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor; Professor; Professor of Practice; Research Lecturer I, II, III; Research Assistant Professor; Research Associate Professor; Research Professor; Lecturer I, II, III; Senior Lecturer I, II, III; Principal Lecturer I, II, III; Instructor; and Senior Instructor employed at the main campus in Albuquerque and the branch campuses of Gallup, Taos, Los Alamos, and Valencia and excludes Provost, Senior Vice Provost, Associate Provost, Deputy Provost, Chancellor, Dean, Associate Dean, Assistant Dean, Department/Division Chairs, Academic Directors, all visiting faculty, working retirees, and those excluded as managerial, confidential, and/or supervisory. Ratified and Signed Contract between UA-UNM and Administration for Unit 2 (part-time) Bargaining Unit 2 Faculty consists of temporary part-time instructors, adjuncts, and term teaching faculty employed at the main campus in Albuquerque and the branch campuses of Gallup, Taos, Los Alamos, and Valencia, and exclude the provost, senior vice provost, associate provost, deputy provost, chancellor, dean, ass ociate dean, assistant dean, department/division chairs, academic directors, all visiti ng faculty and working retirees, and those excluded as managerial, confidential, and/or supervisory. Memoranda of Agreement The below are signed agreements between UA-UNM and UNM administration beyond the Unit 1 and Unit 2 collective bargaining agreements. Current Agreements Compensation Agreement for 2024-2025 (Unit 1) (06.27. 2024 ) Compensation Agreement for 2024-2025 (Unit 2) (06.27 . 2024 ) Professional Development Opportunity (Unit 2) (01.18.2024) Adjunct Appointment ( Unit 2) (12.07.2022) Updating Bargaining Unit Member Lists ( Units 1 & 2) (12.06.2022) Parental Leave (Unit 1) (10.19.2022) Merit Pay (Unit 1) (09.16.2021) Past Agreements Compensation Agreement for 2023-2024 (Unit 1) (06.12.2023) Compensation Agreement for 2023-2024 ( Unit 2) (06.12.2023) Compensation Agreement for 2022-2023 (Unit 1) (03.31.2022) Compensation Agreement for 2022-2023 (Unit 2) (03 .31 . 2022 ) Spring 2021 COVID MOU (Unit 1) (01.11.2021) Spring 2021 COVID MOU (Unit 2) (01.11.2021)