March 26-28, 2017
CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
Registration has begun for the National Center's 44th annual conference on collective bargaining and unionization in higher education and the professions. The conference will be held on March 26-28, 2017 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. The keynote speaker will be NLRB Chairman Mark G. Pearce. You can register online or register by mail for the conference.Special Panel on Anti-Intellectualism and the State of Higher Education with Susan Jacoby, the best-selling author of The Age of American Unreason and Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism will be joining Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities and Hank Reichman, AAUP Vice President. The panel with be moderated by Frederick P. Schaffer, General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, City University of New York.
There will be many additional conference panels and workshops on other important subjects including:
- Collective bargaining for graduate student employees
- NLRB 101: A primer on agency procedures
- Collective bargaining training workshops for faculty and administrators
- Lincoln and Labor
- Unionization, policies and, professional development for adjunct faculty
- Research presentations on grievance handling in higher education
- Shared governance and collective bargaining: the line between
- Contingent faculty participation in shared governance
- The role of endowments in funding higher education
- The student debt crisis
- Overtime and pay equity on campus
- International perspectives on collective bargaining
- Contemporary community college labor-management issues
- The economics and effect of sports on campus
- Workshops on financial data analysis and interest based bargaining
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/ncscbhep
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New York, NY 10010
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