Overloaded Faculty

Technology! Accreditation! Accommodation! Strategic planning! Assessment! Curricular reform! Not to mention, courses and research! Twenty-first century higher education is generating more and more work with proportionally fewer full-time, tenure-line faculty to do it. How can a beleaguered professor manage? Thriving in Academe has some suggestions for controlling your workload.

Southern Illinois University Grad Assistants Sign Off on First Contract.
Southern Illinois University Graduate Assistants (IEA/NEA) United President Ron Fields (right) and university chancellor Fernando Trevino sign GA United's first-ever contract with the university at a January ceremony in Carbondale, Illinois. There are more than 1,600 graduate assistants on the SIUC campus, which is the fourth Illinois university campus to have organized graduate assistants and just the 28th in the nation.

Inside this Issue:

• Joint NEA/AFT Higher Ed Conference
• Thought & Action Call for Papers
• A Win for Florida A&M Grad Assistants
• The Seamless Web of Education