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May 17-20, 2021
Monday, May 17, 2021
Time (EST) | Title |
10:00 – 10:30am EST | Welcoming Remarks and Announcement ◆ Jennifer J. Raab, Hunter College President ◆ William A. Herbert, National Center Executive Director ◆ Alexandra Matish, Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan ◆ DeWayne Sheaffer, President, NEA's National Council for Higher Education ◆ Jeffrey Cross and Gary Rhoades, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy |
10:30 – 10:45 am EST | Break |
10:45 am – 12:15 pm EST | ◆ Daniel J. Julius, Visiting Fellow, Yale University, School of Management and Professor of Management, New Jersey City University |
12:15 – 12:30 pm EST | Break |
12:30 -1:45 pm EST | Plenary: The Biden Administration: Higher Education and Labor Initiatives ◆ Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities ◆ Mark Gaston Pearce, Executive Director, Workers’ Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law School and former National Labor Relations Board Chairman ◆ Damon A. Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO ◆ Michael Loconto, Founding Principal, Fenway Law LLC, Moderator |
1:45 – 2:00 pm EST | Break |
2:00 – 3:00 pm EST | Panel: Challenges of the Past Year and Perspectives about the Future of Higher Education ◆ Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education ◆ Susan Poser, Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois Chicago ◆ Mildred Garcia, President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities ◆ Scott Jaschik, Editor, Inside Higher Ed, Moderator |
3:00 - 3:45 pm EST | Break |
3:45 - 5:15 pm EST | Panel: Academic Freedom in Collective Bargaining Agreements and Faculty Handbooks ◆ Hans-Joerg Tiede, Director of Research, American Association of University Professors ◆ Risa Lieberwitz, General Counsel, AAUP and Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations ◆ Missy Matella, Watkinson Laird Rubenstein, P.C. ◆ Jeffrey Cross, Former Associate VP, Academic Affairs, Eastern Illinois University (Emeritus), JCBA Co-editor, Moderator |
5:15 – 6:00 pm EST | Break |
6:00 - 8:00 pm EST | Panel: COVID-19 and Its Impact on Academic Women ◆ Maria Lund Dahlberg, Study Director at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ◆ Eve Higginbotham, Dean of Inclusion and Diversity, University of Pennsylvania ◆ Leslie D. Gonzales, Associate Professor in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Learning Unit in the College of Education, Michigan State University ◆ Juli Wade, Dean, Professor, Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut ◆ Karen R. Stubaus, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Rutgers University, Panelist and Moderator |
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Time (EST) | Title |
9:00 – 10:30 am EST | ◆ Anthony G. Picciano, Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, School of Education ◆ Irene Mulvey, President, AAUP ◆ Joseph McConnell, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP ◆ Theodore Curry, Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University, Moderator |
10:30 – 10:45 am EST | Break |
10:45 am – 12:15 pm EST | ◆ Mariya Ivancheva, Lecturer in Higher Education Studies at the University of Liverpool ◆ Robert Ovetz, Ph.D., Lecturer, Political Science, San Jose State University ◆ David Harvie, Associate Professor of Finance and Political Economy, University of Leicester ◆ Alyssa Picard, Director, AFT Higher Education, Moderator |
12:15 – 12:30 pm EST | Break |
12:30 – 2:00 pm EST | Panel: Higher Education Legal Update ◆ Henry Morris, Jr., Partner, Arent Fox LLP ◆ Monica Barrett, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC ◆ Angela Thompson, Associate Director, AFT Legal Department ◆ Aaron Nisenson, Senior Legal Counsel, AAUP, Panelist and Moderator |
2:00 – 2:15 pm EST | Break |
2:15 – 3:45 pm EST | Panel: Social Unionism to Bargaining for the Common Good in Higher Education: Then and Now ◆ Charles Toombs, President, California Faculty Association ◆ Ellen Schrecker, Professor Emerita of American History, Yeshiva University ◆ Andrew Feffer, Professor, History, Union College ◆ Marilyn Sneiderman, Professor and Director, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations ◆ Malini Cadambi-Daniel, Director for Higher Education, SEIU, Moderator |
3:45 - 4:00 pm EST | Break |
4:00 - 5:30 pm EST | ◆ Jacob Bennett, University of New Hampshire ◆ Maria Maisto, New Faculty Majority ◆ James Coppess, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO ◆ David Marshall, Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law, ◆ Dorothy Day, Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law, Moderator |
5:30 - 6:00 pm EST | Break |
6:00 - 7:30 pm EST | Book Panel: How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain ◆ Dominic Wells, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Bowling Green State University, author of From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging: How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain (2020) ◆ William P. Jones, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Minnesota, President, Labor and Working-Class History Association ◆ Eleni Schirmer, PhD candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educational Policy Studies ◆ William A. Herbert, National Center Executive Director, Moderator |
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Time (EST) | Title |
10:00 - 10:15 am EST | Welcome with National Center Director, William A. Herbert |
10:15 - 11:45 am EST | ◆ Ken Lang, Director of Organizing, UAW ◆ Peter MacKinnon, SEIU Local 509 President and Chair, Higher Education Council ◆ Kavitha Iyengar, Graduate Assistant Union President, UAW 2865, University of California ◆ Shukura Umi, Executive Vice President, United Campus Workers ◆ Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Student Researcher, Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, Moderator |
11:45 am - 12:00 pm EST | Break |
12:00 - 1:15 pm EST | Panel: COVID-19 and Racial Equity in Higher Education ◆ Amalia Dache, Assistant Professor, Education, University of Pennsylvania ◆ Jennifer Johnson, Assistant Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University ◆ Henrika McCoy, Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services and Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago ◆ Roseanne Flores, Associate Professor, Psychology, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator |
1:15 - 1:30 pm EST | Break |
1:30 - 3:00 pm EST | ◆ Justin Tzuanos, NEA Center for Organizing fellow, NEA Organizational Specialist and Higher Education Team member ◆ Rebecca Givan, Rutgers AAUP-AFT ◆ Jamie Martin, President, APSCUF ◆ Charles Toombs, President, California Faculty Association ◆ Gary Rhoades, Professor, University of Arizona, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy Co-editor, Moderator |
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Time (EST) | Title |
10:00 - 11:30 am EST | ◆ Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University Theologian, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University and contributing writer to Commonwealth magazine ◆ E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post Syndicated Columnist, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and Georgetown University Professor ◆ Heidi Schlumpf, Executive Editor, National Catholic Reporter ◆ Paul Moses, Professor of Journalism, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Moderator |
11:30 - 11:45 am EST | Break |
11:45 am - 1:15 pm EST | ◆ Gerald J. Beyer, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Villanova University ◆ Patricia McGuire, President, Trinity Washington University, Discussant ◆ Mary-Antoinette Smith, Professor, English, and Executive Director, National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE), Seattle University, Discussant ◆ Lily Ryan, Organizer, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University ◆ Donna Haverty-Stacke, Professor, History, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator |
1:15 - 2:00 pm EST | Break |
2:00 - 4:00 pm EST | ◆ Kathy Sheffield, Director of Representation and Bargaining, California Faculty Association ◆ Barry Miller, Senior Policy Advisor on Labour Relations, Office of the Provost, York University ◆ Judi Burgess, Director of Labor Relations, Boston University ◆ Deborah Williams, Johnson County Community College Faculty Association ◆ Elena Cacavas, Esq., Cacavas ADR, LLC, Moderator |
4:00 - 4:15 pm EST | Break |
4:15 - 5:45 pm EST | ◆ William A. Herbert, National Center Executive Director ◆ Letitia F. Silas, Executive Director of Systemwide Labor Relations, University of California ◆ E. Kevin Young, Associate Director for System-wide Labor Relations, University of California ◆ Tara Singer-Blumberg, NYSUT Labor Relations Specialist ◆ Homer C. La Rue, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Panelist and Moderator |