The
Connecticut State Conference-AAUP will make use of CEW for membership
recruitment and to increase awareness of contingent faculty issues
on CT Non-CB/Advocacy two and four year campuses.
Campus
Equity Week activities around the state include outreach to full
and part-time members, local campus leaders, current AAUP members,
students, and other campus groups with contingent faculty informational
materials, AAUP fact sheets- including highlights from the new AAUP
contingent statement, CEW buttons, and screenings of Barbara Wolf?s
films "Degrees of Shame" and "A Simple Matter of
Justice." Academic freedom, job security, health benefits,
compensation, shared governance, and recognition of part-time faculty
as integral members of the academic community direct the effort.
This
first-time initiative by the Connecticut State Conference-AAUP mirrors
activities by other Assembly of State Conferences (ASC) in solidarity
with contingent faculty.
Flo Hatcher, Connecticut State Conference-AAUP Executive Director,
national AAUP Committee on Contingent Faculty and the Profession
chair and longtime part-time activist member of CSU-AAUP, reports
Conference plans are formulating to support the Emerson College
part-time faculty demonstration October 29 in Boston.
Contact:
Flo Hatcher <hatcherk1@southernct.edu>