About

About FAMCO

The Faculty Association of Monmouth University is commonly called FAMCO, getting its name from its formation when Monmouth University was a college.

FAMCO is a part of the AAUP and has been a major force in the development of professional standards and procedures at Monmouth University.

The association’s main responsibilities continue to be:

negotiating agreements with the University that cover: salaries, benefits, procedures and standards for continuance, tenure and promotion, teaching loads, and service and scholarship requirements.
protecting faculty members by providing interpretations of the Agreement and a grievance system.
encouraging collegiality by holding open meetings, discussions, debates, and providing refreshments.

Because there is strength in numbers, and a strong union can…

increase the power of faculty to bargain for better salaries, benefits, and working conditions;
provide a powerful voice for faculty governance in university decision-making;
protect academic freedom and ensure fair procedures for reappointment, tenure, and promotion;
protect non-tenure track faculty against further shifts toward contingency;
protect individual members through a formal contract grievance process;
provide critical legal counsel on behalf of its interests in the grievance and negotiation process;
increase our solidarity with our colleagues across campus employee unions to support equity for all;
protect the dignity, autonomy, and status of the professoriate itself;
push broadly for social justice in the face of troubling changes affecting higher education writ large.

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;
to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good.