#Maria Maisto #CEW keynote speaker at Colorado SU

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Maria Maisto, president of New Faculty Majority, will be the keynote speaker for events to be held on campus on Oct. 10 and 11 to observe Campus Equity Week. These events focus on the role of adjunct faculty at the CSU.

Campus Equity events

The Campus Equity events included a keynote address by Maisto 7 pm Wednesday, Oct 10 in the main auditorium of the Institute for Teaching and Learning (TILT) building on the CSU oval, room 221. 

Maisto and members of the College of Liberal Arts Adjunct Faculty Committee (CLA-AFC) also hosted a public forum in the new Main Floor Event Hall at Morgan Library from 9:30-11:30 a.m. on Oct. 10. Oct. 11 Maisto led a workshop for adjunct faculty  from 9-11 a.m.

Today @ Colorado State University - National academic labor leader to speak on campus

Smashing Apples: Shock Doctrine for Public Education

…That’s What It’s All About by Kevin Mahoney in Raging Chicken Press, densely packed with information and links, briefly excerpted below. This series promises to live up to the Raging Chicken Press tagline, "if you're not angry, you're not paying attention." Don't shortchange yourself or your understanding of current issues in higher ed. If SEIU 500 (Coalition of Academic Labor)'s successes show what can be done and Green River CC vs GRAFA raises serious questions about intra-union conflict and abuses of power, then Smashing Apples (love the name) draws the line in the sand...Raging Chicken editor and writer, Kevin Mahoney notes, 

Editor’s Note: This article inaugurates a new Raging Chicken Press series by the same name: Smashing Apples. This series will focus on the ongoing attacks against public education from kindergarten through higher education both in the Pennsylvania region and across the country

... and then posits...

Pennsylvania as Ground Zero in War Against Public Education?

@SEIU L500 Coalition of #AcademicLabor Conference #Call4Presentations

…3 more cheers & come to DC for the Coalition's annual Forum

Adjunct Mark Plane speaks
at 2011 conference

The SEIU Local 500 Coalition of Academic Labor Fourth Annual Forum on Part-time Faculty Unions. Read about 2011 Forum. Submit for 2012 by October 31, details below.

Caste and Classes: Contingent Academic Labor 

Confronting Inequalities in Higher Education

• Date: Saturday, December 1, 2012 
• Time:  9am to 5pm.
• Place: SEIU Headquarters, 1800 Mass Ave, Washington DC (Dupont circle metro)

Join part-time faculty, union members and activists, contingent faculty advocates, full-time faculty, student groups, administration allies, members of The New Faculty Majority and the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education, community allies and other stakeholders in higher education for an action oriented forum on the topic of how academic labor practices are perpetuating the increasing inequalities in our society and what we are doing to fight back.

Blog Action Day 2012, Oct15: #powerofwe

…Calling all #highered bloggers to blog for #contingent #academiclabor issues. Let's do this one: try some Power of We on for size. You can choose your own cause to blog for (or blog for more than one). One recommendation suggests focusing on a social change movement. This is ours.

Not a blogger? Maybe it's time to start. Imagine if this one day all the contingent faculty bloggers (even ones not blogging on academia or issues) and our tenured friends like More or Less Bunk, Here Comes Trouble or The Professor is In, AAUP's Academe blog, Campaign for the Future of Higher Ed bloggers and others blogged about this social change movement. Surely someone would notice. 

Hello Bloggers

#Adjunct Professors Unite…on radio

…right about NOW (Mon Oct 1) at 12:00 noon (EST), NewFac prez Maria Maisto,  along with SEIU Local 500 VP Kip Lornel, and Senior Chronicle Writer Schmidt will be guests on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, a Washington DC  social issues radio program on NPR affiliate WAMU that follows the Diane Riehm Show. Join them now or visit later.