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Campus Equity Week 2005

Adjunct faculty from across the nation will make their case for workplace justice October 31-November 4.

Faculty on hundreds of campuses—including a number of NEA-represented campuses—across North America are gearing up for Campus Equity/Fair Employment Week 2005—October 31-November 4 in the United States and October 24-29 in Canada.

CEW/FEW's week of action, which is supported by NEA and other faculty unions, aims to educate the public and policymakers about contingent academic employment issues of fairness and quality of education—and promote local organizing and encourage contingent faculty participation and activism.

For updated information and materials to use in creating your own campus equity week activities, visit www.campusequityweek.org.

Mark your calendar on March 3-5, for the 2006 NEA Higher Education Conference. This year's conference, for the second time, will be a joint undertaking with the higher education members of the American Federation of Teachers. The conference, entitled "AFT-NEA Higher Education Summit: Sharing Our Success, Challenges, and Strategies," will be held at the Disney Contemporary Resort in Orlando, Florida.

Look for registration and hotel information this fall on the NEA Higher Education Web site at www.nea.org/he, or call or e-mail the NEA Higher Education Program, 202-822-7162 or Highered@nea.org.

More than 8,000 delegates to the National Education Association's 84th Representative Assembly elected Reg Weaver, who was unopposed, to a second three-year term as Association president. "Educators must insist upon high standards for all of their colleagues," he told delegates. "Assist and support them, but urge their continued growth and commitment to our profession…The credibility of each and every one of us is damaged when one of us is unprofessional, unprepared, or unwilling."

Weaver also led a rally highlighting school funding issues across the nation, culminating with a two-mile march of about 300 NEA members from all 50 states and D.C. to deliver resolutions against the governor to his office in downtown Los Angeles

NEA and American Federation of Teachers have launched a national campaign to encourage consumers not to buy school supplies from Wal-Mart.