SPRING CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

COCAL-CA PRESENTS

Contingent Faculty and Funding in

California’s Public Universities and Community Colleges:

Can We Stop the War on Education?

Saturday May 3, 9-5, UC Berkeley Faculty Club

9:00 Registration (no charge)
9:30 Introduction: Welcoming remarks
10:00 Dismantling the Faculty: Contingent Hiring and the Erosion of Tenure, Shared Governance, Academic Freedom, Instructional Quality, Student Access.

            Moderator:

            Craig Flanery, Lecturer, Cal State Los Angeles, CFA

            Panelists:

            Bob Samuels, Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara, UC-AFT Bargaining Team

            Robert Yoshioka, Central Regional Representative, CPFA

Ted Stolze, Lecturer, Cal State Hayward, CFA

11:45 Disinvestment in Higher Education: State Budgets, Administrative Priorities, the Corporate University. Contextualizing This Budget Crisis.

Moderator:

Mary Millet, Community College Part-Time Coordinator, CFT

Panelists:

            Andy Lyons,  staff researcher, CFA

            Bob Campbell, Lobbyist for UC-AFT and CUE, Former State Assemblymember

            Chris Storer, Philosophy Instructor, De Anza College, CPFA           

1:15 Lunch

2:00 Organizing to Mitigate the Short-Term Damage, Reverse the Long-Term Trends.

             Moderator:

            Mary Ellen Goodwin, Chair, CPFA

            Panelists:

            Pat Lee, Northern Regional Organizing Director, CFA

            Joe Berry, Chair, COCAL Chicago

            Mike Rotkin, Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz, UC-AFT Local President and Bargaining Representative

 3:45-5:00 Regional Discussion Groups: Building Coalitions.

6:00 Optional restaurant dinner.

 To find the Berkeley Faculty Club, see the campus map at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/large_map.html

  or a smaller, partial campus map at

http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/CDEF567.html

RSVP:

 Michelle Squitieri

Field Representative
UC-AFT Local 1474

Berkeley Campus
510 841-1609

510 384-6727 cell

msquitieri@mindspring.com

 Many lecturers and part-time instructors don't know much about the national history of contingent faculty organizing in the last decade.  Why would we would spend our own scarce time and resources to learn about and work with our colleagues in other institutions and other unions?  Why should tenure faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates care about lecturers and part-time instructors?  Because the exploitation of any class of faculty in California undermines the power and professionalism of all faculty, and hence the fundamental principles of academic freedom, shared governance, and student access to excellent instruction. 

 Our first project is this May 3 conference at the UC Berkeley Faculty Club to begin thinking collectively about the challenges we face and the possibility of a collective response.  We’ll have brief presentations by panelists, followed by discussion with the audience.  If this event is successful, we may organize a followup conference for CEW in October.  All members of our campus communities are welcome.

May 3, 2003 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

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 Name:________________________________________________________________

 Address:______________________________________________________________

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 Organization / Affiliation:______________________ Home phone:_____________________

 Email:_____________________________________   Work phone:_____________________

The conference is FREE though donations to cover costs will be gratefully accepted.  Box lunches will be provided.  Preregistration is requested (not required) for planning purposes only.  Mail this form to COCAL-California, P.O. Box 2278, Santa Rosa, CA 95405 or send an email to msquitieri@mindspring.com .

University until it ends at the entrance to campus. Turn left on Oxford

(Fulton), then right on Hearst (you're going around the perimeter of the

campus). Make a right onto Gayley Road. Pass Haas School Of Business & make

the first right turn onto Haas Access Svc. Rd. Make a left into the Boalt

lot.

*** Signage is posted at the entrance to the lot.

From University, turn right on Oxford, then left on Durant or on Channing,

then go several blocks (you'll cross Telegraph and College), and turn left

on Piedmont Ave. Pass International House (on the right) at the corner of

Bancroft Way/Piedmont Ave. Make a U-turn just before stop sign. Make an

immediate right onto Haas Access Svc. Rd. Make a left into the Boalt Lot.

Reserved parking on campus will cost $6 per vehicle. We've reserved 40

spaces. First come, first serve. If the lot is full, there should be

parking in the lots and garages on Bancroft, Durant, Channing, Oxford, and

Hearst, but it will be more expensive. (Street parking is metered close to

the campus, and so impractical for an all day event.)

We couldn't get parking in the Faculty Club parking lot, so you'll have to

walk a little to get to the Faculty Club. Here are URLs to the campus map-a

smaller section and the whole map.

http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/CDEF567.html

http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/large_map.html

If you get lost, call Michelle at 510 384-6727.