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The NEA Higher Education Office has finished this year's selection of
locals to receive Competitive Membership Grants.
 The grants, available each
year to local chapters, are intended to help increase visibility and improve
communication among members. Grants were awarded to chapters to upgrade E-mail
systems, build partnerships between business and the campus, and create
materials to be used for recruiting new members.
To find out how your NEA
local affiliate can apply, check the Web: www.nea.org/he.
A team of staff and leaders will be in Florida in late October and early
February helping out in the United Faculty of Florida s membership drive.
The first week the team will
be on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, working with
faculty leaders to introduce recently hired faculty to the union. They will also
be meeting with campus UFF leaders to talk about intellectual property rights
and how technology is changing jobs in higher education.
NEA is conducting a survey of part-time faculty teaching at both two-
and four-year campuses in California, Michigan, Washington, and Minnesota.
The survey hopes to find out
how long part-time faculty have been employed in temporary positions, their
level of satisfaction with their teaching jobs, and their opinions of the unions
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Thought & Action, NEA's journal on higher education issues,
is seeking submissions.
The fall issue of
Thought & Action will be hitting mailboxes the week of November 17
with hard-hitting articles on the tenure wars, faculty development, and a
half-dozen other issues important to the higher education community.
Coming up this spring in
Thought & Action is a tough look at technology and higher education,
with a special emphasis on the role faculty unions must play in its development.
Interested in sharing your
experiences and ideas on the role of faculty and staff in designing distance
learning and using technology in the classroom? TheThought & Action
Review Panel would especially like to hear from nonteaching staff about how the
growth of technology affects health and safety, fair use and other areas of our
jobs and our lives.
A team of NEA trainers took part in Iowa's statewide meeting for higher
ed Association leaders last month.
NEA staff provided training
sessions for these community college and four-year campus leaders in mentoring,
membership recruitment, using the Internet, and managing change.
Roger Knutsen, president of
the National Council on Higher Education, the advocacy group for higher ed
within NEA, spoke to the group about the union role in protecting faculty
intellectual property rights. |
