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NYS AAUP Agenda - Spring 2009

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NEW YOUR STATE AAUP ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE
April 17-18, 2009

Meetings [Directions]: Marymount Manhattan College, Main Building, 221 East 71st Street (btw 2nd & 3rd Ave), NY, NY 10021, 212-517-0400

Accommodations [Directions]: Hotel 57, 130 East 57th St., New York, NY‎ - (866) 240-8604. The rate is $199 per night. Reserve a room by completing our conference registration by March 22, 2009.

Registration [Please complete our online registration by March 22, 2009 - if you want us to reserve your room at the Hotel 57]

Schedule Summary

Friday, April 17th at Marymount Manhattan College 1:00PM-7:00PM with the support of the local Marymount Manhattan AAUP chapter

1:00-4:00  Business meeting (closed to NYS AAUP Leadership) 

4:00-7:00  Open Forum

8:00-11:00  Dinner Banquet - Guest of Honor Jeanine Plottel, Keynote Speaker:

Martin Snyder

Martin Snyder
Associate General Secretary,
Director of External Relations

Keynote Speaker

Topic:

Working Together with AAUP

Information:

Dr. Snyder joined the national staff of the AAUP in July 1999 as Associate Secretary and Director for Academic Freedom and Professional Standards.  He now serves as Director of External Relations. Dr. Snyder is also an adjunct professor of humanities at the University of Maryland University College

Saturday, April 18th at Marymount Manhattan College 1:00PM-7:00PM with the support of the local Marymount Manhattan AAUP chapter

8:30-9:00  Breakfast

9:00-9:30  NYS AAUP State Elections

9:30-10:00 Completion of Conference Business

10:00-12:00  Keynote Speaker Alan Lubin

Alan Lubin

Alan Lubin
Executive VP NYSUT


Keynote Speaker

Topic:

Legislative Initiatives in New York State Related to Higher Education

Information:

NYSUT

12:00-1:00 Lunch


Schedule Details

FRIDAY AGENDA

1:00-4:00 PM (closed to NYS AAUP Leadership)

  1. Call to Order: Stephen Z. Goldberg
  1. Approval of Minutes of Fall 2008 Meeting by Cecelia McCall
  1. President: Stephen Z. Goldberg - Report
  1. Vice-President: Kathleen Smith - Report [PDF]
  1. Treasurer: Pat Cihon - Report [PDF]
  1. Reports and Plans of Standing Committees
    1. Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure: Irwin Yellowitz - Report [PDF]
    2. Committee on Chapters, Members and Dues: Kathleen M. Smith
    3. Committee on Minorities in the Profession: Grace Vernon
    4. Committee on Government Relations: Patricia Bentley & Jeff Kraus
    5. Committee on College and University Governance: Frank Higman
    6. Committee on the Economic Status of the Profession: Deborah Dolan
    7. Committee on Women in the Academic Profession: Patricia Bentley
    8. Committee on Contingent Faculty and the Profession: Jeanette Jeneault - Report [PDF]
    9. Committee on Retirement: Martin Kaplan
  1. Reports of Councils
    1. The National Council: Lenore Beaky, Patricia Bentley, Ellen Schrecker - Report [PDF]     /     Proposed At-Large Constitutional Admendment [PDF]
    2. The Independent Council
    3. The CUNY Council: Cecelia McCall
    4. The SUNY Council: Eileen Landy
    5. The Collective Bargaining Council: Estelle Gellman
  1. Executive Director: Tom Policano - Report [PDF]
  1. New York Academe editor: Jeff Kraus - NY Academe Volume 33, Number 4, Winter 2009 [432K PDF]
  1. Old business
  1. Other

4:00-7:00 PM Open Forum - Topics:

  1. The Economic Downturn and Funding for Education
  2. Working Together with AAUP with Martin Snyder, AAUP Director of External Relations
  3. Update on COCAL Northeast
  4. Other

8:00-1!:00 PM Dinner Banquet - Guest of Honor Jeanine Plottel, Keynote Speaker Martin Snyder Topic - Working Together with AAUP

SATURDAY AGENDA

8:30-9:00  Breakfast

9:00-9:30  NYS AAUP State Conference Elections

The slate is as follows:

Vice President: Jeanette Jeneault (Syracuse University)
Treasurer: Patrick J. Cihon (Syracuse University)
Secretary: Cecelia McCall (Baruch College)
Members at Large:

Dr. Joyce Furfero (St. John’s University)
John Marino (UUP)
Suzanne Wagner (Niagara University)
Kate Eskew (Hilbert College)


9:30-10:00 Completion of Conference Business

10:00-12:00  Keynote Speaker Alan Lubin - Topic: Legislative Initiatives in New York State Related to Higher Education

12:00-1:00 Lunch

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