Annual Conference, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Ed

National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions


39th Annual National Conference
A Joint Labor/Management Meeting
Academic Collective Bargaining Under Siege:
Implications for a Public Good
in New York City
April 1, 2, 3, 2012
Underwritten by a grant from TIAA-CREF With additional funding by SEGAL/SIBSON

For full information, consult our website: www.hunter.cuny.edu/ncscbhep

Dear Colleagues and Friends of the National Center,

Please mark your calendars with the following dates for the 39th Annual National Conference:

Sunday, April 1, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The conference theme will be Academic Collective Bargaining Under Siege: Implications for a Public Good.

Conference registration fees have not changed while the Affinia Dumont and Shelburne hotel rates of $269.00 per night are $10.00 less than last year's.

For additional information contact our office by phone, 212.481.7550,

or by e-mail, national.center@hunter.cuny.edu with any questions.

Speakers (partial listing) and panels (more to be announced):

Featured Speakers
* Jane Wellman, Executive Director, The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability * John Cavanaugh, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education * Barbara Bowen, President, Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York * Larry Gold, Director, AFT Higher Education, American Federation of Teachers * Pamela Silverblatt, Vice Chancellor, Labor Relations, City University of New York * Doug Lederman, Editor, Inside Higher Ed * Margaret Merryfield, Senior Director, Academic Human Resources, California State University system * Millie Garcia, President, California State at Dominguez Hills * James Rice, President, National Council for Higher Education, NEA * Susan Pearson, Associate Chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst * Barbara Viniar, President, Chesapeake Community College * Bill Perry, President, Eastern Illinois University * Howard Bunsis, AAUP, Eastern Michigan University * Jim Moran, Interim President, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania * Lillian Taiz, President, California Faculty Association * Daniel Julius, Vice President, Academic Affairs, University of Alaska system * Bill Johnson, Senior Director, Labor Relations and Policy Development, University of Cincinnati * Nicholas DiGiovanni, Esq., Morgan, Brown & Joy * Rudy Fichtenbaum, Professor, Economics, Wright State University * Phadra Williams Tuitt, Organizational Specialist, Office of Higher Education * Ernst Benjamin, AAUP * Len Zinnanti, Chief Operating Officer, Hunter College, City University of New York * Steve Hicks, President, APSCUF

Featured Panels
* Overview: Financial Landscape of Public Higher Education * Strategies for Coping with Public Higher Education's Financial Landscape * 50 Year Retrospective: The Past and The Future * Perspectives: Challenges to Collective Bargaining in Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, and Texas * Questions for Our Colleagues in These Times * Private/Public; Public/Private * Budget Issues *Legal Challenges to Collective Bargaining * Crisis Impact on the University Community: Students, Families, Local Businesses * Best Practices to Avoid Crisis Impact on Diversity and Gender * Changing the Conversation: Fiscal Constraints-Responding to the Challenge? * Collective Bargaining. The Crisis: Impact on Retirement, Tenure, and Faculty Mobility * The Nexus between Budget Conditions and Collective Bargaining Realities: What We Disagree and Agree Upon * Digital Instruction and Rights: Impact on Collective Bargaining Agreements and Contract Language * Contingent Faculty: One System's Response * Collective Bargaining Contracts with Performance Metrics * Views from Our Constituents: Union Coalition Building * Legal Issues in Higher Education: Annual Review of Decisions, Cases CLE Credit

Featured Workshops
Freedom of Information Law CLE Credit * Negotiations 101 - 103 CLE Credit *
Digital Rights and Intellectual Property CLE Credit * Mock Arbitration

Our best,

Richard Boris
Executive Director

Michelle Savarese
Administrator