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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS
ADVISORY FOR: Saturday,
May 3rd, 2003 CONTACTS: Jon Akana, 916.457.5546
Statewide
Coalition Brings Together Faculty from
California’s Universities and Colleges for
Conference on Crisis in Higher Education Berkeley,
CA – Lecturers and part-time instructors from the University of California
(UC), California State University (CSU), and California Community College
systems have formed a new statewide coalition, COCAL-CA,
the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, California.
Their first conference this Saturday, May 3rd, at the Berkeley
Faculty Club will address the crisis in higher education that threatens the
educational system’s ability to offer excellent education to California’s
students in coming years. “Contingent
Academic Labor” refers to a diverse group of higher education faculty, from
community college part-time instructors and university lecturers to graduate
instructors, with one thing in common: they lack tenure, a traditional form of
academic job security, and their positions are usually temporary. Nationally
and statewide, the proportion of faculty without tenure hired on a temporary
basis to meet continuing instructional needs has grown rapidly over the last 2
decades, in large part because funding for instruction has been increasingly
reduced. As a result, the
profession itself as well as the stability and integrity of our higher education
system is threatened. This
conference will look at the consequences of contingent hiring practices and
unstable funding and explore ways of addressing these problems together. WHO:
Lecturers and Instructors from UC, CSU, and California Community Colleges WHAT:
Conference on Crisis in Higher Education WHEN:
Saturday, May 3rd, 2003, 9-5 WHERE:
Berkeley Faculty Club (not the Women’s Faculty Club)
University of California, Berkeley
For More Information Contact:
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