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The Negotiating Council, under the leadership of the Chief Negotiator, has the responsibility of conducting negotiations with the District. A three-member Negotiating Team, led by the Chief Negotiator, meets with District negotiators to reach agreement on a new contract, and reports back to the Council for its advice and consent. The Council, in turn, reports to the membership. All new contracts must be ratified by a vote of the Association membership.

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Mar 2007 - AAUP - CA Annual Meeting PDF Print E-mail
Stories and pictures by Martin Goldstein

The California chapters of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) convened for their annual meeting on Saturday, March 3, on the idyllic Cal Arts campus in Valencia, and the newly fledged Santa Monica Chapter was well represented, with Lantz Simpson, FA President attending, along with Launa Nelson, Melissa Michelson, Ben Martin, and myself.

I attended the morning workshop on Chapter Development and Member Recruiting, at which, as President of our Chapter, I have been remiss but vow to do better in the future. Lunch was served on china plates with glass stemware, a classy touch. Susan Meisenhelder of the California Faculty Association (CFA) spoke after lunch on the Spellings Commission Report, cogently placing it in a series of federal and state attempts to standardize higher education, corporatize colleges, and diminish shared governance and faculty input. Think University of Phoenix.

The afternoon session I attended was led by Craig Flanery, newly minted AAUP rep, and focused on contingent faculty (PTers). It was clear that all the issues of the part-time movement, in which Craig was deeply involved through his prior work for CFA, were coming to a head in the form of developing legislation in California. The problems, and the dangers of academic contingency have been identified; it is now time to start constructing the solutions, and begin paying for them.

All in all it was a lively mix of activist academics, doing well by doing good, in a lovely setting, and all of us from Santa Monica were glad we had made the trip out there.

 
  		 

 

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