More @SEIU500CAL #AcademicLabor Forum

…Panel 2 – Professor Staff Organizes – addressing contingent faculty working conditions, student impacts, and education policy.

• Esther Merves, Research Director, New Faculty Majority: New Faculty Majority Back to School Survey, Results and Uses
• Dan Maxey, Dean's Fellow in Urban Education Policy,  Pullias Center for Higher Education, University of Southern California: Contingent Faculty Working Conditions and Student Success
• Michael Best, SEIU, and Thomas Vadakkeveetil, Strayer University: The 
• For-profit Education Industry – Organizing for Reform

Marisa Allison@marisaallison

Having an amazing time at SEIU's coalition of Academic Labor Forum. #academiclabor

9:06am · 1 Dec 12 ·

@SEIU500CAL #AcademicLabor Forum, Panel I

…see complete conference schedule here. 

Caste and Classes – linking our struggle for the rights of contingent faculty to the larger struggle to maintain a middle class, ensure access to quality education for all, and save the dignity of work for everyone from professors to janitors.

• Gary Rhoades, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education College of Education University of Arizona
• Pablo Eisenberg, Senior Fellow, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
• Wayne Langley, Director, Higher Education Division, SEIU Local 615

People are starting to arrive to the #academiclabor conference! It's going to be an exciting day!
— Ethan Miller (@Habohead59) December 1, 2012

#SEIU500 Forum on #PTFaculty #Unions this Saturday!

…the SEIU Local 500 Coalition of Academic Labor Forum is Free & Open to the Public. REGISTER TODAY ~ RIGHT NOW 

The SEIU Local 500 Coalition of Academic Labor Fourth Annual Forum on

Part-time Faculty Unions

Caste and Classes: Contingent Academic Labor Confronting Inequalities in Higher Education

  

Saturday, December 1, 2012, 9am to 5pm at SEIU Headquarters, 1800 Mass Ave, Washington DC (Dupont circle metro)

Please RSVP to Anne McLeer by November 28 (THAT'S TODAY), at mcleera@seiu500.org

This forum is free and open to the public. Breakfast and lunch will be served

 

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.

Agenda

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?

#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.