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NEA Higher Ed Conference
NEA annual
gathering, March 4-7, 2004, promotes student learning and higher education
as a public good.
There’s
still time to register for NEA’s 2004 Higher Education Conference,
“Higher Education on Dangerous Ground: Defending a Public Good,”
March 4-7 in Seattle.
Highlights of NEA’s annual higher
education gathering, which will be held this year concurrently and in
coordination with the American Federation of Teachers’ annual higher
education meeting, include a joint opening plenary with NEA President
Reg Weaver and AFT President Sandra Feldman.
In addition to joint events, several professional
development sessions will focus on strategies and methods to promote student
learning. Topics include Promoting Learning Through Inquiry; Writing to
Learn; Teaching, Learning, and Performing: Engaging Students with Interactive
Theatre; Using Cooperative Groups to Promote Learning—and More.
Also on tap: sessions on bargaining workload
and workforce issues, making shared governance work, and honing the higher
education message, as well as the release of the NEA semi-annual survey
of state legislators and an NEA report examining the threats and promises
of globalization.
The winter 2004 issue of Thought
& Action, the NEA Higher Education Journal, will be
hitting your mailbox soon. This issue features articles on the uses and
misuses of language in the classroom, a defense of the labor movement,
and a warning about corporate quality review programs heading for your
campus. Also available, the 2004 NEA
Almanac of Higher Education.
NEA’s
newest online resource, CAREshare, is a monthly online newsletter
and discussion group designed to support NEA members in meeting the needs
of all students, especially those in schools not making adequate yearly
progress under new Elementary and Secondary Education Act guidelines.
Of interest to higher education members will be tips on increasing access
for underrepresented students and easing the transition from high school
to college. To join CAREshare, e-mail mgreen@nea.org.
For a week in
December, state and national NEA staff convened in New Mexico for the
NEA Organizing Institute. The agenda featured a discussion of targets,
strategies, and resources for building the Association and included strategies
for tapping growth potential in higher education by increasing the numbers
of dues-paying members on our unionized campuses as well as organizing
employees at unrepresented two- and four-year institutions.
The NEA Higher Ed Website, www.nea.org/he,
includes many of these resources in electronic format.
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