Pictured: Observers and members of the bargaining team arrive for negotiations on August 27, 2024.

This Labor Day, FAMCO recognizes the 174 full-time faculty members who have signed the open letter of support for our bargaining team. Your commitment and solidarity are instrumental in advancing our shared goal of winning a contract with real earnings increases and affordable healthcare for faculty.

Open Letter of Support for the Bargaining Team

FAMCO returns to the table to negotiate compensation and benefits with the administration. 

We, the faculty of Monmouth University, write in support of the FAMCO Bargaining Team’s salary proposal. We request that faculty be paid a reasonable salary in return for providing stellar educations to our students. As faculty, we have essentially taken a pay cut over the last contract given that our salary did not keep up with inflation. The salaries most faculty are being given by the Administration are too low to afford living in the counties surrounding our place of employment. Faculty were already finding it difficult to afford middle-class housing, decent healthcare, childcare, eldercare, or to save for retirement, and the cost of living has only risen. In fact, the median Assistant Professor salary is $95,091, yet the pre-tax living wage for a family of four in Monmouth County is $164,195 (https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/34025). Only 20 individuals in our faculty ranks enough to meet this Monmouth County living wage threshold on their own without partnering up, sharing living expenses with a roommate, or finding a side hustle.

Faculty, all of whom have advanced professional training and degrees and who work hard day in and day out to provide Monmouth University students with stellar educations, deserve a salary that allows them to provide a healthy life for themselves and their families. Monmouth University students come to our institution for the education faculty offer. Faculty provide for our students; it is time Monmouth University provides for its faculty.

As Inside Higher Ed wrote, Monmouth University is a “rare debt-free college.” And, according to independent financial analysis from the AAUP based on Monmouth University data, the institution has solid levels of reserves for its size. The university has had the financial freedom to retire a mortgage early and to pay $1.6 million to switch athletic conferences for example. Monmouth University is thriving. Their faculty should be, too. 

#SupportFairPayforFaculty

#AThrivingPlaceKeepsthePace

We pledge our support for the bargaining team as they negotiate for fair pay for Monmouth faculty

Patrick O’Halloran
Elizabeth Gilmartin-Keating
Dickie Cox
Sue Starke
Natalie Ciarocco
Jonathan Ouellet
Susan Goulding
Mark Ludak
Corey Dzenko
Michael Cronin
Lisa M. Dinella
Lisa Iannucci
Jen McGovern
Andrea Hope
Jamie Nappi
Jeanne Koller
Mihaela Moscaliuc
Shannon Hokanson
Alena Graedon
Beth Gough
Cheryl Leiningen
Beth Sara Swanson
Kathryn Lionetti
Nick Messina
Bernadette Dunphy
Mary Harris
Paul Urbanski
Frank Fury
Joan Raso, MSN, RN, CHSE
Jamie Pigman, PhD
Patrick Love
Specialist Professor Rick Roberts
Robert Scott
Yun Luo
Jaishree Sharma
Yulin Li
Steve Chapman
Amanda Stojanov
Johanna Foster
Joe Patten
Gary Lewandowski
Lindsay R. Mehrkam
Melissa Alvare
Megan Delaney
Greg Moehring
Kevin Dooley
Jamie Goodwin-Uhler, Ph.D.
Peter Jacques
Manuel Chavez
Bochen Li
Jonathan Daigle
Pauline Papapietro
James Fries
John Burke
Sanjana Ragudaran
Lisa Vetere
Laura Turner
Courtney Wright-Werner
Kenneth Campbell
Tom Baker
Meg Forney
Pedram DaneshgarAmanda Stojanov
Johanna Foster
Alexis Silverio
Alysson Goodwin
Christa Hogan
Francis Valiquette
Stephanie Bobbitt
Brian Lockwood
Gabrielle Hackenberg
Mike Richison
Michelle Schpakow
Michael Phillips-Anderson
Richard Bastian
Christine Forbes
Patricia Sciscione
Charles Willow
Erin Nau
Jennifer Shamrock
Jiacun Wang
Torrey Gallagher
Lynn Kraemer-Siracusa
Stacy Lauderdale Littin
Richard Scherl
Nikita Burrows
Hillary DelPrete
Nica Davidov
Michelle Scott
Melissa Brzycki
Denise Crowley
Jaime Myers
Stephanie Lynch
Kevin Dillon
John Comiskey
Jing Zhou
Frank Damiani
Aaron Furgason
Carson Clements
Jennifer Harpootlian
Heide Estes
Giuseppe Fazari
Scott Jeffrey
Katherine Parkin
Thomas Carey
Peter Liu
Kiameesha Evans
John Buzza
Warren Brown
Susan Meyer
Matthew Tozzi
Ilyong Jung
Kathryn Lubniewski
Jeremy Lackman
Chuck Whedon
Jamie Adler
Wobbe F. Koning
Mikhail Sher
Weihao Qu
Robyn Holmes
Maureen Dorment
John Morano
Joanne Jodry
David Marshall
Davis Jose
Sherry Wien
Anne Deepak
Vecihi Serbay Zambak
Jangwook Lee
Joelle Zabotka
Jangho Gil
Ralph Cuseglio
Minna Yu
Datta Naik
Kerry Carley-Rizzuto
Jeffrey E. Jackson
Joe Palazzolo
Dr Rose Knap
Nicole Halliwell
Michele Van Volkom
Alison Maginn
Tina Paone
Lilly steiner
William T. Byrne
Stuart Rosenberg
William Gorman
Julius Adekunle
Erik Raj
Mirta Barrea-Marlys
Amelia Shannon
Danuta Szwajkajzer
Sean Sterrett
Kimberly Callas
Tjeerd Boonman
Frank Domenico Cipriani
Colleen Beach
Nicole Pulliam
Uzma Imtiaz
Johnny Pang
George Germek
Jason E. Adolf
Maria Hrycenko D.C.
David Tripold
Dr. Christopher S. DeRosa
Joseph B. Mosca
Mary Haspel
Azzam Elayan
Janet Mahoney
Adam Heinrich
Hettie Williams
Joseph Torchia
Polina Amburg
Abha Sood
Jeffrey Weisburg
Emanuel Palsu-Andriescu
Aina Ananda