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Welcome to the New York State Conference
of the American
Association of University Professors. Our goal is to provide the
faculty of New York State an organized voice through which to discuss
concerns and communicate issues.
News
NYS AAUP Fall Conference October 17-18th, 2008 |
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The NYS AAUP Fall Conference will be held October 17-18th, 2008 at Hilbert College, Hamburg, NY.
Our keynote
speaker will be Vinny Terilli who is one of the founders of
Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL)
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Keynote Speaker: Vinny Tirelli ( Brooklyn College/CUNY/PSC)
Vinny Tirelli is one of the founders of the Coalition Of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) and is the co-moderator of ADJ-L@ADJ-L.ORG, the listserve for contingent academic labor and their friends. He is currently an adjunct assistant professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, a former member of the Executive Council of the Professional Staff Congress - CUNY (AFT Local 2334), and a proud member of the AAUP. His dissertation is titled “The Invisible Faculty Fight Back: Contingent Academic Labor and the Political Economy of the Corporate University” (CUNY Graduate Center, 2007).
Topic: Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor
Information: COCAL VIII; Inside Higher Education: For Adjuncts, Progress and Complexities |
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9/14//08
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Antioch College Support Petition |
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The faculty of Antioch College, are trying to reach, and mobilize signatures from, as many academics around the nation as possible in our effort to maintain public pressure on the Antioch University Board of Trustees as they negotiate with the Antioch College Alumni Association over the future of our (now closed) College. Please sign the petition.
Iveta Jusova (Ohio AAUP member) |
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8/12/08
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AAUP's 2008 Summer Institute July 24-27, 2008 |
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Registration for AAUP's 2008 Summer Institute is now open! This year's Summer Institute will be held at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI, July 24-27. Course offerings include such classics as contract negotiations, developing your state conference, government relations, member recruitment and chapter development, and higher education data and research, as well as such new offerings as union murals, art, and agit-prop; improving campus antidiscrimination policies and domestic partner benefits; and working with the media. This year's excursions include a clam bake on Friday evening and a trip to Newport on Saturday.
For more info about the 2008 Institute and about the Kingston area,
please go to: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/about/events/SI/
To register,please go to:
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/about/events/SI/Reg.htm |
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6/10/08
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Ninety-fourth Annual Meeting of the AAUP June 12–15, 2008 |
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The Ninety-fourth Annual Meeting of the AAUP titled, Scholars in Peril, is scheduled for June 12–15, 2008 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St., NW Washington, DC 2000. The featured speaker Adam Habib, deputy vice-chancellor of research, innovation, and advancement at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, is a renowned scholar and sought-after political analyst. More details are available at: http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/about/events/AM/ |
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4/8/08
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The Education & Labor Collaborative Friday March 28, & Saturday March 29, 2008 |
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Education & Labor Collaborative Forum announced for March 28-29th, 2008. This Forum, hosted by the United Federation of Teachers, will provide an opportunity for educators and unionists to explore issues raised by this education and labor collaborative initiative, and to consider ways and means of implementing the products of such collaboration. The Forum will offer workshops and interactive dialogue sessions that provide examples of the sort of projects that could help us reach our goals of a public educated in its collective self-interest, and a teacher corps better prepared to provide such an education.
Register to attend the Forum |
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3/4/08
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NYS AAUP Spring Conference April 18-19th, 2008 |
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| Look for the conference report in the May issue of NY Academe. NYS Leadership team updated. |
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4/23/08 |
The NYS AAUP Spring Conference will be held on April 18-19th, 2008. So far we are set for meeting space Friday 4/18 at St John's 1:00PM-7:00PM with the support of the local St John's AAUP chapter. Friday evening dinner will be at Verdi's Italian Restaurant in a private room 8-11PM and th ekeynote speaker will be Joe Berry. Joe Berry will discuss his book, Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education and issues related to contingent faculty. Saturday 4/19 we will be at Hofstra 8:30AM - 1PM with support of the Hofstra Chapter and our keynote speaker will be James Berger. James Berger will discuss the challenges we face with the increasing emphasis on outcomes assessment and mission statement drafting.
Register for the NYS AAUP Spring Conference 2008 now using our on-line form. Complete conference agenda is now available. Hotel accommodations for out of town attendees will be at the LaGuardia Courtyard Marriott with free transportation to/from LaGuardia Airport airport. Hotel reservations must be requested via our on line conference registration form by 3/29/08.
The NYS AAUP Fall Conference was held October 19-20, 2007 at NYSUT in Latham, N.Y.. Read the approved minutes. |
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2/24/08
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AAUP Reorganization to create three interlocked entities under one AAUP umbrella |
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On December 13, 2007, AAUP president Cary Nelson contacted members alerting them to the new constitutions and explaining the constitution-adoption process. The constitutions have been extensively reviewed and approved by the Restructuring Task Force, the Committee on Organization of the Association, the executive committees of the AAUP’s Assembly of State Conferences and Collective Bargaining Congress, the Executive Committee of the AAUP Council and the Council as a whole, AAUP staff, and outside counsel. At the annual meeting in June, AAUP members will vote on whether to adopt the constitution of the AAUP. Delegates to the June meeting of the Collective Bargaining Congress will vote separately on the new AAUP-CBC constitution. The decision to create the AAUP Foundation rests with the elected national Council, the body with financial oversight responsibility for the Association. (Details) |
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12/13/07
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AAUP Introductory Reduced Membership Dues Offer |
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In February non-members at 2/3rds of US Higher Ed Non-Unionized Institutions will receive an introductory reduced dues offer, while nonmembers at 1/3 of the schools will receive a full dues offer. The reduced introductoryoffer will be $60 annual dues to nonmembers earning $60,000 or less and $120 annual dues to people earning more than $60,000. Advocacy Chapters have been invited to add a local recruitment letter to the National offer which must be sent to Katherine Isaac, AAUP Dept of Organizing and Services (kisaac@aaup.org) by January 15th. We urge all chapters to do so. |
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12/5/07
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Freedom in the Classroom (2007) |
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AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure has released a new report, Freedom in the Classroom (2007) to assess arguments made in support of recent legislative efforts to regulate classroom instruction. The 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure affirms that "teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject." This affirmation was meant to codify understandings of academic freedom commonly accepted in 1940. In recent years these understandings have become controversial. Private groups have sought to regulate classroom instruction, advocating the adoption of statutes that would prohibit teachers from challenging deeply held student beliefs or that would require professors to maintain "diversity" or "balance" in their teaching. This report is a response to these efforts.
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9/12/07 |
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AAUP Campus Equity Week |
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Campus Equity Week highlights the exploitation of contingent Faculty and is October 29 - November 4, 2007. The purpose of the week is to bring attention to the poor working conditions of many contingent faculty members and to the threats to higher education posed by an increasing reliance on part- and full-time non-tenure-track appointments. Additional information and resources are available on the AAUP site.
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9/1/07 |
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AAUP Contingent Faculty Index 2006 |
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The objective of the AAUP Contingent Faculty Index 2006 is to provide comparable data at the campus level, enabling faculty, students, administrators, governing board members, and the general public to participate in local discussions about the impact of contingent faculty employment on the quality of higher education
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8/27/07 |
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AAUP Leadership Training Fall 2007 Announced |
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This year’s AAUP
fallleadership training will be held in AAUP’s Washington
DC office, Friday and Saturday, October 26 and 27. More
information. Review the report of last years AAUP
Leader Training Fall 2006.
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6/27/07 |
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Pace University’s embattled president,
David A. Caputo stepping down June 3. |
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| His abrupt departure, announced
yesterday by university officials, follows a faculty request
this month that university trustees seek his resignation. Stephen
J. Friedman, the dean of Pace’s law school, will become
interim president... more... |
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5/16/07 |
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Roger Bowen to Leave as AAUP's Chief in June |
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| Cary Nelson, president of AAUP,
said its governing body would discuss how the job of general
secretary might be changed before the organization begins a search
for Mr. Bowen’s replacement... more... |
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5/5/07 |
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