Professional Staff Congress - NY Features CEW/FEW

In a powerful statement, Barbara Bowen, Professional Staff Congress president, urges that we "use Campus Equity Week to expose and address the labor scandal on which most of American higher education is built...[i.e.] the exploitation of contingent academic labor." Bowen notes, "there is no adjunct problem; what we really face is a funding problem, a political problem, a labor problem, an academic freedom problem." She adds, "The cause is the right-wing political lobby that has succeeded in arguing that any expenditure on public goods is a waste of taxpayers' money..."                           

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AAUP Campus Equity Week Starter Kit

The American Association of University Professors has just released its "Campus Equity Week Starter Kit." The kit is available from the AAUP's website. For more information, contact Gwendolyn Bradley (202-737-5900, ext. 3012.

From Dee Wood at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA

Our plans at COD will be:
1. Table with brochures, flyers and the buttons, of course, explaining what CEW is and why we're out there on the campus.
2. TV set running some of the PT videos that we have showing our situation on various campuses.
3. On Friday, November 4th, we are going to be in costumes and have candy in bowls.
4. Our Publicity release goes to the local TV stations (one of which is just across the street), the Desert Sun and other local papers as well as the radio stations.

The last time we did this we had lots of students and teachers stop by to watch the video and chat with us.

Let me know if others are doing something clever that we can use and when the media release is ready I'm sure you'll put it on line."

Dee can be reached via e-mail.