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AAUP
Governance Conference
“Making
Teamwork Work”
Press Release
Release
date: October 3, 2003
Contact:Martin
Snyder 202-737-5900, ext. 3039
msnyder@aaup.org
Washington, D.C.?
“Making
Teamwork Work” is the theme of the American Association of University
Professors’2003governance conference, which will be held on October
9-11 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The annual conference, held this
year in collaboration with the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) and the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics, brings together
faculty members and administrators to explore the special challenges
they encounter when they work collaboratively.
“Faculty participation in institutional decision making remains
one of the most effective ways to protect academic freedom and to maintain
educational quality. Faculty are particularly able to exercise experienced
judgment in those areas where they have primary responsibility:curriculum,
subject matter and methods of instruction, research, faculty status,
and those aspects of student life that relate to the educational process,”
said Martin Snyder, AAUP director of planning and development. “Moreover,”
he adds, “faculty collaboration is an invaluable asset to any
administration in the more general areas of budgeting, planning, and
the articulation of institutional goals and mission. The inclusion of
faculty in the decision-making process makes any educational institution
stronger.”
The first day of this year's conference, will be convened at NCAA headquarters
and devoted to collegiate athletics. The plenary speakers will
be:
Myles
Brand (president, National Collegiate Athletic Association), “The
NCAA, the University, and the Reform of Intercollegiate Athletics”
Carol
Simpson Stern (Northwestern University and chair, AAUP Committee on
Teaching, Research, and Publication)
Scott
Kretchmar (Pennsylvania State University)
Jeffrey
Halpern (Rider University), “The Faculty Role in the Reform
of Intercollegiate Athletics”
James
Earl (Faculty Senate, University of Oregon), “The Faculty Coalition’s
Role in Athletics Reform”
Peter
Orszag (Sebago Associates, Inc.,and the Brookings Institute), “The
Economics of Intercollegiate Athletics.”
The
luncheon plenary address, “Athletic Reform from the Board Perspective”
will be delivered by John Walda (chair, Association of Governing Boards).
The day will conclude with a reception at the Law School Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis, sponsored by the Indiana AAUP conference and
the IUPUI chapter of the AAUP.
The last two days of the conferencewill continue the athletics theme
and expand to include more general issues of the faculty role in shared
decision making. Friday’s plenary speakers, Lu Hardin (president,
University of Central Arkansas) and Rebecca Williams (Department of
English, University of Central Arkansas) will make a presentation titled
“The Revival of Shared Governance at the University of Central
Arkansas.”
On Friday October 10, William Tierney (director, Center for Higher Education
Policy Analysis, University of Southern California) will deliver the
annual Neil Rappaport Lecture. His address is titled “Trust,
Governance, and the Engaged Intellectual.” In December 2000,
a group of dismissed faculty members reached a financial settlement
with Bennington College. They designated a portion of the settlement
to establish the Neil Rappaport Memorial Fund. Rappaport, one of the
three plaintiffs who died during the extended legal battle, had been
at the forefront of the dispute with the college. The memorial fund
is administered by the AAUP and used to support lectures on academic
freedom and shared governance.
Attendees will also explore the following topics through workshops:
The
Title IX Controversy
Ensuring
Integrity in the Academic Experience of College Athletes: Issues and
Approaches for Faculty
Developing
Best-Practice Standards for the Appointment and Function of Faculty
Athletic Representatives
Indicators
of Sound Governance:Evaluation of Academic Administrators
Shared
Governance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Effective
Faculty Handbooks
Using
the Campus AAUP Chapter to Address Handbook and Governance Issues
TheFaculty
Role in Institutional Budgeting
Political
and Legal Aspects of Collegial Governance
Shared
Governance in Collective Bargaining Context
Case
Studies in Governance
The
AAUP StatementContingent Appointments and the Academic Profession
Addressing
Contingent Faculty Issues: What Has the AAUP Done? What Will It Do?
And What Should It Do?
On Saturday, October 11, Linda Collins (chair, AAUP Committee on Community
Colleges, and past president, Academic Senate for California Community
Colleges) will deliver a presentation titled “The Role of Contingent
Faculty in Shared Governance.”
The
conference will close with a plenary panel consisting of Larry Gerber
(Auburn University); Gary Rhoades (University of Arizona), Craig Swan
(University of Minnesota), and William Tierney (University of Southern
California) and a reception.
Members of the media are invited to attend. For more information,
visit the AAUP Website, www.aaup.org, and select “Events,”
or call Martin Snyder at 202-737-5900,ext.3039.
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The American Association of University Professors is a nonprofit charitable
and educational organization that promotes academic freedom by supporting
tenure, academic due process, and standards of quality in higher education.
The AAUP has 45,000 members at colleges and universities throughout
the United States.
Robin Burns
American Association of University Professors
Department of Public Policy and Communications
1012 Fourteenth Street, NW, #500
Washington, DC 20005
rburns@aaup.org
202-737-5900 ext. 3013
800-424-2973
FAX 202-737-5526
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