http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/narcos-meet-hackers-anonymous-group-may-be-heading-to-cyber-faceoff-with-deadly-zetas-gang/2011/11/02/gIQApkYbeM_story.html
CREDIT
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Anonymous v. Drug Cartel: Underworld battle of the century?
According to news reports a Mexican drug cartel has taken a member of the cyber-terror group Anonymous as a hostage. And rather than negotiate, Anonymous has threatened to release on the net the IDs of public officials, cops and others affiliated with the cartel. The deadline given by Anonymous tot he cartel is Saturday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/narcos-meet-hackers-anonymous-group-may-be-heading-to-cyber-faceoff-with-deadly-zetas-gang/2011/11/02/gIQApkYbeM_story.html
CREDIT
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/narcos-meet-hackers-anonymous-group-may-be-heading-to-cyber-faceoff-with-deadly-zetas-gang/2011/11/02/gIQApkYbeM_story.html
CREDIT
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Is the Department of Ed's Office of Civil Rights shifting its position on readmission of mentally disabled students?
OCR's December decision, only recently released, involving SPring Arbor University:
http://www.nacua.org/documents/OCRLetter_SpringArborU.pdf
The Department of Justice regulation that the letter seems to adopt:
http://www.ada.gov/regs2010/titleII_2010/titleII_2010_withbold.htm
And brief analysis by the National Association of College and University Attorneys:
http://www.nacua.org/lrs/documents.asp#springarbor
http://www.nacua.org/documents/OCRLetter_SpringArborU.pdf
The Department of Justice regulation that the letter seems to adopt:
http://www.ada.gov/regs2010/titleII_2010/titleII_2010_withbold.htm
And brief analysis by the National Association of College and University Attorneys:
http://www.nacua.org/lrs/documents.asp#springarbor
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
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
9/11 - Ten years Later: a Rutgers Conference
Attached please find the brochure for the UCDPER Conference entitled "9/11 - 10 Years Later" which will be held December 9, 2011, at Rutgers University - Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick.
We hope that you will join us for this informative event.
Erika Schaefer, Secretary
University Center for Disaster Preparedness
and Emergency Response
Clifton R. Lacy, M.D., Director
732-418-8486 - Office
732-253-3452 - Fax
erika.schaefer@rwjuh.edu
We hope that you will join us for this informative event.
Erika Schaefer, Secretary
University Center for Disaster Preparedness
and Emergency Response
Clifton R. Lacy, M.D., Director
732-418-8486 - Office
732-253-3452 - Fax
erika.schaefer@rwjuh.edu
5th Annual Medical and Health Sci Centers Conference
The early registration discount for the 5th annual Academic Medical & Health Science Centers conference (December 5-6, 2011 in San Diego) ends this Friday, November 4th.
This is the place to benchmark your financial, academic, and facility plans for creating and sustaining world-class academic medical and health science teaching, research, and clinical care programs at the lowest possible capital and operating costs.
Below is a sampling of a total of 26 conference sessions ALL focused on successful new strategies that will improve your institution's medical and health science program performance in the coming year:
- Space utilization plans for high institutional productivity
- Integrated planning, financial models, and facilities for translational research
- Genomics driven personalized medicine: What it means for translational research facilities
- Integrated academic programs in a single building deliver productivity and efficiency
- Planning metrics for the integrated health science campus of the future
- Simulation centers and clinical skills training: Critical features for profitable facilities
- Building for ONE tripartite mission: research, education, and clinical care
- Technology plans and the latest technology options for operational improvements
- Collaborative spaces that work: The most productive facility investments
- New analytical tools for optimal capital investments and maintenance strategies
Now is the time to gather your team, make your travel plans, and register!
View registration and conference details: http://www.TradelineInc.com/AMHSC2011
View the agenda: http://www.TradelineInc.com/AMHSC2011Agenda
Here is an early list of participating institutions that you will have the opportunity to network with and learn from:
- Auburn University
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- BJC HealthCare
- Camosun College
- Cornell University, Weill Medical College
- Dartmouth Medical School
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- Duke University School of Medicine
- East Carolina University
- Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
- Emory University
- Florida International University
- Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Greenville Hospital System
- Huertas Junior College
- Indiana Wesleyan University
- Kaiser Permanente
- KK Women's & Children's Hospital, SINGAPORE
- Medical College of Georgia
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Morehouse School of Medicine
- New Giza University - EGYPT
- Old Dominion University
- Oregon Health & Science University
- Palomar Pomerado Health
- Parkland Hospital
- Partners Healthcare System
- Robert Morris University
- Seattle Children's Research Institute
- Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
- SUNY Stony Brook Medical Center
- The Ohio State University
- The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
- The Texas A&M University System
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
- Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
- University of Arizona Cancer Center
- University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine
- University of Calgary
- University of Central Florida College of Medicine
- University of Georgia
- University of Houston
- University of KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA
- University of Michigan Health System
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of North Dakota, School of Medical and Health Sciences
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of South Florida Health
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Weill Cornell Medical College
PLUS! Facility Site Tours:
- The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM) for collaborative work in stem cell research
- Palomar Medical Center West at Palomar Pomerado Health
Register your team today! The early registration discount ends on Friday, November 4th.
View registration details here: http://www.TradelineInc.com/AMHSC2011
If you have any further questions, or would like to receive a copy of the final program by postal mail, email us at registrar@tradelineinc.com or call us at (925) 254-1744.
I look forward to seeing you in San Diego in December!
Cordially,
Steve
Steve Westfall, Ph.D.
President
Tradeline, Inc.
This is the place to benchmark your financial, academic, and facility plans for creating and sustaining world-class academic medical and health science teaching, research, and clinical care programs at the lowest possible capital and operating costs.
Below is a sampling of a total of 26 conference sessions ALL focused on successful new strategies that will improve your institution's medical and health science program performance in the coming year:
- Space utilization plans for high institutional productivity
- Integrated planning, financial models, and facilities for translational research
- Genomics driven personalized medicine: What it means for translational research facilities
- Integrated academic programs in a single building deliver productivity and efficiency
- Planning metrics for the integrated health science campus of the future
- Simulation centers and clinical skills training: Critical features for profitable facilities
- Building for ONE tripartite mission: research, education, and clinical care
- Technology plans and the latest technology options for operational improvements
- Collaborative spaces that work: The most productive facility investments
- New analytical tools for optimal capital investments and maintenance strategies
Now is the time to gather your team, make your travel plans, and register!
View registration and conference details: http://www.TradelineInc.com/AMHSC2011
View the agenda: http://www.TradelineInc.com/AMHSC2011Agenda
Here is an early list of participating institutions that you will have the opportunity to network with and learn from:
- Auburn University
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- BJC HealthCare
- Camosun College
- Cornell University, Weill Medical College
- Dartmouth Medical School
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- Duke University School of Medicine
- East Carolina University
- Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
- Emory University
- Florida International University
- Florida State College at Jacksonville
- Greenville Hospital System
- Huertas Junior College
- Indiana Wesleyan University
- Kaiser Permanente
- KK Women's & Children's Hospital, SINGAPORE
- Medical College of Georgia
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Morehouse School of Medicine
- New Giza University - EGYPT
- Old Dominion University
- Oregon Health & Science University
- Palomar Pomerado Health
- Parkland Hospital
- Partners Healthcare System
- Robert Morris University
- Seattle Children's Research Institute
- Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
- SUNY Stony Brook Medical Center
- The Ohio State University
- The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
- The Texas A&M University System
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
- Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
- University of Arizona Cancer Center
- University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine
- University of Calgary
- University of Central Florida College of Medicine
- University of Georgia
- University of Houston
- University of KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA
- University of Michigan Health System
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of North Dakota, School of Medical and Health Sciences
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of South Florida Health
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Weill Cornell Medical College
PLUS! Facility Site Tours:
- The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM) for collaborative work in stem cell research
- Palomar Medical Center West at Palomar Pomerado Health
Register your team today! The early registration discount ends on Friday, November 4th.
View registration details here: http://www.TradelineInc.com/AMHSC2011
If you have any further questions, or would like to receive a copy of the final program by postal mail, email us at registrar@tradelineinc.com or call us at (925) 254-1744.
I look forward to seeing you in San Diego in December!
Cordially,
Steve
Steve Westfall, Ph.D.
President
Tradeline, Inc.
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