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Linking All of EducationA unique, upcoming NEA conference will unite higher ed with other key education sectors. NEA will take another giant step toward its longtime goal of ending the isolation of its constituent groups when the entire NEA education community gathers this spring in a single conference in Atlanta that incorporates the annual higher ed conference and conferences serving-K-12 teachers, retirees, and students. Higher ed members attending the conference will have their own sessions---on issues such as intellectual property rights, 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week learning, educational quality ---but, this year, they'll also take part in joint sessions with their colleagues from across the education spectrum. The conference is scheduled April 7-9, 2000 in Atlanta. A Web site will shortly be up and running and accessible from www.nea.org/he with additional information, including registration forms. Higher Education Staff, the most recent Update from the NEA Higher Education Research Center, reviews the changes in higher education staff between 1993 and 1997, based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics Fall Staff in Postsecondary Institutions data file. The findings: The number of higher education employees increased by 2 percent, with part- timers increasing by 7 percent and full-timers by 1 percent. Copies of the report are available from the NEA Office of Higher Education. E-mail Highered@nea.org. You can view back issues of Update at www.nea.org/he. NEA Higher Education staffer Rachel Hendrickson is serving on the American Faculty Poll Advisory Committee. The poll, sponsored by TIAA-CREF and conducted by The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, hopes to assess the needs and concerns of higher education faculty in areas such as career choices, professional life, institutional priorities, the present state of higher education, and prospects for its future. NEA higher ed staffer Christine Maitland made a presentation on NEA's work in technology to the German educator's union, Gewerekschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft Hauptvorstand this fall in List, Germany. The theme of this year's conference was "Virtual Higher Education and Research." In her session, "Trade Union Work in Virtual Higher Education," Christine spoke on how technology was changing academic work. She also demonstrated the NEA Higher Education CD-ROM and did a live hook-up to the NEA Higher Education Web site to show how trade unions can use technology to improve services and communications with members. |
