APSCUF CONFERENCE ON LABOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION

  • Du jeudi 15 octobre 2009 au samedi 17 octobre 2009
  • Harrisburg, PA, USA

http://www.apscuf.org/apscufconferenceonlaborinhighereducation.html


Description

This conference seeks to examine the issues currently confronting teachers, scholars, researchers, coaches, professional staff and other interested parties who perform academic labor in higher education.  The conference provides a forum to explore, discuss, and debate academic labor issues across disciplinary boundaries.   In particular the conference will focus on the current direction of academic labor and the development of practical ways to address the issues raised. 
These issues may broadly include but are not limited to:

·         Academic freedom
·         Accountability
·         Assessment
·         Class size
·         Coaches Issues
·         Collective Bargaining
·         Contingent Faculty
·         De-unionization and Poverty
·         Distance Education
·         Diversity
·         Evaluation
·         Faculty Development
·         Funding Practices
·         Governance
·         Graduate Students
·         Grievance
·         Healthcare
·         Hiring Practices
·         Information Security
·         Intellectual Property
·         Job Actions
·         Legal Issues
·         Political Action
·         Productivity
·         Promotion
·         Publication
·         Remuneration
·         Sabbatical
·         Social Class Issues
·         Strike Experience
·         Tenure
·         Unionism
·         Unionism and Social Transformation
·         Workload

 

Proposals addressing the following topics are particularly welcome in the workshop format:
·         Building Solidarity
·         The Nuts and Bolts of Striking

 

Plenary speakers will include Marc Bousquet (Department of English, Santa Clara and author of “How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation”)