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Campus Equity Week
Adjunct faculty
from across the nation will make their case for workplace justice
October 27–31.
During the
week of October 27–31, 2003, coordinated activities on campuses in
the United States, Canada, and Mexico—including a number of NEA-represented
campuses—will turn the spotlight on issues of fairness and quality
in higher education.
 Campus
Equity Week promotes local organizing and encourages contingent faculty
participation and activism. The events will also address declining labor
standards and increasing use of temporary and part-time labor for all
campus work. To learn more, or to get started with your own local campus
activities, visit the NEA Higher Education Web page www.nea.org/he and
the Campus Equity Web page www.cewaction.org.
Registration
is now open for the 2004 NEA Higher Education Conference scheduled
for March 5–7 in Seattle. The conference theme: Higher Education
on Dangerous Ground: Defending a Public Good, reflects the academy’s
concerns that as public financial support for higher education dwindles
and campus administrations look to find alternative sources of funding,
faculty and staff need to find better ways to promote their work and
the work of the academy as an essential public good.
This year, for the first time, the higher
education conference of the American Federation of Teachers will be held
concurrently with the NEA event. Participants registered for one conference
may attend sessions at the other conference and the two organizations
are planning some joint activities.
For a registration packet, call the NEA
Higher Education Program, 202-822-7162, send e-mail to Highered@nea.org,
or visit the NEA Higher Education Web site at www.nea.org/he.
NEA’s
newest higher education resource is the NEA Higher Education Research
Extracts, a monthly newsletter from NEA Higher Education
and NEA Research that provides brief excerpts from recently published
studies on topics of interest to the academic community. Recent issues
have covered topics such as college graduation rates, virtual universities,
and racial and ethnic differences in postsecondary achievement.
For each study, the Extracts provides
a brief excerpt to give some feel for the research along with a link
to the full article. In most cases, tables or charts are included.
To register for a monthly e-mail copy
of Research Extracts, send a blank e-mail to JOIN-he-research-extracts@list.nea.org.
You can access current and past issues at http://researchextracts.home.comcast.net. |
