Higher Education Climate Change in Virginia: Defending Academic Freedom
10 am: Kent Willis, Executive Director, Virginia, American Civil Liberties Union
10:45 am: Michael Halpern, Scientific Integrity Program Manager, Union of Concerned Scientists
12:30 pm: Cary Nelson, President, AAUP (Jubilee Professor
of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Professor of English, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2- 4 pm: Business Meeting
All faculty are invited!
Legislative Alerts
Alert #4
This week reports good news from the Virginia General Assembly
regarding the VRS, VCU, nondiscrimination, and academic freedom! Your
advocacy efforts have paid off, but there is still work to be done.
Please consider taking the actions recommended in this legislative
alert.
Letters to the Legislature
Protect Your Salary
"I did not expect to grow wealthy as a
college professor, but that is not important to me. What I did expect -
as did most of my colleagues - was that I would be compensated by the
Commonwealth in a manner commensurate with my qualifications, my hard
work, and my job performance. Above all, I expected that I would be
treated fairly, and that the Commonwealth would not renege on the
commitment it made to me when I was hired." - Complete Letter
8:40 A.M. Coffee available at VCU School of Nursing Student Lounge
(1st floor of the Nursing Building)
9:15 A.M. Welcome by VCU Faculty Senate President, AAUP President, and FSVA
President (School of Nursing Student Lounge)
Mark Rubin Legislative updates
9:45 A.M. Distribution of promotional materials (Sch. of Nursing Student Lounge)
10:00 A.M. Visits to legislative offices (Capitol complex – 4 blocks from Nursing)
12:00 Noon Light lunch available (Sch. of Nursing Student Lounge)
1:00 P.M. Visits to legislative offices
4:30 P.M. End of visits
Information on legislative offices to visit will be available when you
arrive. Confirm your participation with pcummins@vcu.edu and
Brian Turner bturner@rmc.edu to help us plan better for visits and food.
Gary Rhoades Keynote Speech: "We Are All Contingent". Introduction of Rhoades: Patricia Cummins, President of the Virginia Conference of the AAUP
This speech was the keynote of the AAUP "Contingent Faculty: The New
Majority" event held on Virginia Commonwealth University's campus on
February 26, 2010.
Contingent Faculty: The New Majority.
Glenn Dubois, Chancellor of Virginia Community College System
Laura Moriarty, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (giving the remarks of VCU President Rao)
Joseph DeFilippo, Director of Academic Affairs and Planning at SCHEV
Patricia W. Cummins, Introduces the speakers, President of the Virginia Conference of the AAUP