NYS AAUP Agenda Fall 2014
NYS AAUP CONFERENCE FALL 2014 October 23-24th, 2014
Conference Theme – You Are Not Alone
Meetings [Directions]: SUNY Cortland • 38 Graham Ave • Cortland, NY 13045
Accommodations [Directions]: Country Inn & Suites By Carlson • 3707 West Rd. (Route 281) • Cortland, NY 13045 • (607) 753-8300 • ($104.99/night)
Banquet [Directions]: Central City Bar and Grill • 17 Central Ave Cortland, NY 13045 • (607) 758-3300
Registration [Please complete our online registration by October 10th, 2014 if ou will be reserving a hotel room, other wise registrations are accepted up until the day of the conference.]
You Are Not Alone – Schedule
Friday, October 24th • 1:00PM-6:00PM
Colloquium: SUNY Cortland • BROCKWAY HALL Jacobus Lounge – Room 112
1:00-2:00 Welcome Remarks & Introductions
- David Linton – President, NYSC AAUP
- Bill Buxton – President, SUNY Cortland UUP
- Sally Dear-Healey – Vice President, NYSC AAUP
2:00-3:00 Speaker – Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo
3:00-4:00 Speaker – Risa L. Lieberwitz – Expanding Unionization in Private Universities: New Possibilities Pending at the NLRB
4:00-5:15 Contingent Faculty Panel Discussion – Sally Dear-Healey, Moderator
- Anne Wiegard
- Jaclyn Pittsley
- Jeffrey Baker
5:15-6:00 Open Forum & Vote on Updated NYS AAUP Constitution
- NYS Constitution Vote
- Administration attempts to limit academic research among librarians
- Pay equity for adjuncts
You Are Not Alone – Conference Guests |
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Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo Assemblywoman Donna A. Lupardo was first elected in November 2004 and is currently in her fifth term representing the City of Binghamton and Towns of Union and Vestal. She has a number of leadership positions in the Assembly including: Chair of the Assembly Committee on Children and Families; Vice Chair, Legislative Women’s Caucus; Co-Chair, New York Legislative Aviation Caucus; and President, New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators. Assemblywoman Lupardo also serves on the following Assembly Committees: Economic Development, Environmental Conservation, Higher Education, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs. She is a former Lecturer at Binghamton University and was the Director of Education for the Mental Health Association prior to her election. Topic – Effective Political Organizing |
Bill Buxton – President, SUNY Cortland UUP Associate Professor SUNY Cortland Literacy Department |
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Anne Wiegard Ms. Wiegard has been a full-time Lecturer in English at SUNY Cortland since 1999; she is She chairs the board of directors of the NFM Foundation and was a founding member of New Faculty Majority as well as its Secretary from 2009-2011. Anne was one of the organizers of the Mira Costa Community College bargaining unit in 1997-98 in San Diego. She taught at both SU and SUNY Cortland in part-time appointments from 1988-1994, and at various public and private institutions in Southern California from 1995-1998. Her first career was in public libraries in Northern Virginia. |
Jaclyn Pittsley SUNY Cortland – English Department Lecturer I Jackie is a full time lecturer one (I) in the English Department at SUNY Cortland. She has been the elected Officer for Contingents for six years with UUP Cortland Chapter, and is a Delegate to the Statewide UUP Assembly. Although she currently works full time, Jackie was contingent for seven years in a part-time teaching position. Jackie works with contingent faculty because she is one of them, and because she believes not many people seem to know/care about their lack of job security or poor wages. |
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Jeffrey Baker – NYS AAUP has done well in protecting academic freedom and integrity. There is much more to do. Continuing funding cuts and the decline in tenured faculty have hurt higher education. Anti-unionism is rampant. Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, Monroe Community College (Rochester); Online faculty and subject matter expert (psychology) Excelsior College (Albany). Formerly Adjunct Professor at RIT (Rochester).
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Risa L. Lieberwitz – Expanding Unionization in Private Universities: New Possibilities Pending at the NLRB Professor of Labor and Employment Law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and an Associate of the Worker Institute at Cornell. She was appointed to serve as General Counsel of the AAUP for a two-year term, beginning July 1, 2014. She has also served as a member of AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Much of Risa’s research has focused on the “corporatization” of colleges and universities and the impact of these developments on academic freedom and the role of higher education in a democratic society. Her current research addresses the role of collective bargaining in higher education in creating contractual protections for academic freedom and faculty governance. Risa is a longtime activist in faculty governance at Cornell. |
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Dinner Banquet: Central City Bar and Grill
7:00-10:00 Dinner Banquet
Saturday, October 25th • 8:00AM-1:00PM
NYS Conference Steering Committee Meeting: SUNY Cortland • CORY Room 220 – Exhibition Lounge
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
9:00-12:00 Conference Business
12:00-1:00 Lunch
NYS Conference Steering Committee Meeting Details
Saturday, October 25th • 8:00AM-1:00PM
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-12:00PM (open to NYS AAUP Leadership only)
- Call to Order: David Linton
- Approval of NYSC Spring 2014 Meeting Minutes by Cecelia McCall REPORT
- President: David Linton – REPORT [PDF]
- Vice-President: Sally Dear-Healey REPORT [PDF]
- Treasurer: Pat Cihon – REPORT [PDF]
- Reports and Plans of Standing Committees
- Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure: Irwin Yellowitz
- Committee on Academic Professionals:
- Committee on Chapters, Members and Dues: Kate Eskew
- Committee on College and University Governance: Peter Gormori, Jane Koretz
- Committee on the Economic Status of the Profession:
- Committee on Faculty Holding Contingent Appointment:
- Committee on Government Relations: Jeff Kraus
- Committee on Retirement: Frank Higman
- Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Profession:
- Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession: Sally Dear-Healey
- Reports of Councils
- The National Council: Anne Friedman, Sally Dear-Healey, Rana Jaleel
- The Independent Council:
- The CUNY Council: Cecelia McCall
- The SUNY Council:
- The Collective Bargaining Council: James Davis REPORT [PDF]
- Executive Director: Tom Policano – REPORT [PDF]
- NYSC Election Committee 2013: John Polimeni
- New York Academe editor: Jeff Kraus
- Old business
- Other
12:00-1:00 Lunch