Development Opportunities

AAUP Conference on the State of Higher Education

Sponsored by: American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - Saturday, June 12, 2010
Registration Deadline: June 12, 2010
Location: Washington, DC

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) will be hosting the annual Conference on the State of Higher Education from June 9 to 12, 2010, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Presentations will encompass a wide range of issues related to academic freedom, governance, faculty work life, rights, and responsibilities. Among the questions the conference will explore are:

• The role of faculty in institutional decision making
• Challenges to academic freedom in the United States and abroad
• The exploitation of contingent labor in colleges and universities
• The conflict between institutional rankings and educational priorities
• Strategic approaches to furloughs, cutbacks, and salary freezes
• Funding and defunding public education
• Increasing access to tenure
• Race, gender, and sexual orientation
• Discrimination in hiring, promotion, and tenure
• Online education: the pros and cons
• Assessment and accountability
• The corporatization of teaching and research
• The twenty-first century curriculum

The goal of the conference is to provide a faculty perspective on critical issues in higher education presented in a format accessible to the general public.
The conference will include special AAUP-sponsored workshops on:

• Protecting an Independent Faculty Voice at Public Institutions: the Legal Landscape
• Winning Anti-Discrimination Policies and Domestic Partner Benefits: Case Studies of Campus Successes
• The Ratcheting Up of Expectations for Tenure: Are Faculty Their Own Worst Enemy?

To learn more about the conference, please visit the website.

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