MEETING SCHEDULE and PROGRAM 2008

Cost and How to Register for the Meeting

FedEx Global Education Center (it's just north of the Tate Turner Kuralt social work building, at the SE corner of McCauley and Pittsboro Streets in Chapel Hill). University Parking Lots are generally free and open to the public after 5 pm on Friday and all day Saturday. There is basement parking lot in the GEC, but there is no guarantee of available spaces in any particular spot. The Bell Tower Parking lot (see map above) is probably the best bet.

2008 Annual Meeting
North Carolina Conference of the
American Association of University Professors

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
April 4 & 5, 2008
FedEx Global Education Building
______________________________________________________________________      Friday, April 4

                              7 p.m.                                
       Public Keynote Address: Higher Learning and Higher Profits:
       The Privatization of America’s Research Universities    
           
Jennifer Washburn, Fellow, New America Foundation
              (free and open to the public)         
                                                                                                                                RECEPTION FOLLOWING

       Saturday, April 5

       8:30 to 9:00 a.m.                                    Registration with Coffee and Muffins

       9:00 to 10:00 a.m.                                  That Clinking Clanking Sound, Redux

This workshop will focus on how corporations and foundations are influencing everything from trustee selection to curriculum decisions to research agendas. How can faculty work effectively to define and also protect a mission and vision of higher education that lies beyond profit?

Panelists:    Steve Wing, Assoc. Prof., Epidemiology, UNC-Chapel Hill
                   Jennifer Washburn, New America Foundation
                   Michael Schwalbe, Assoc. Prof., Sociology, NC State
      
       10:00 to 10:15 a.m.                                    Coffee Break

       10:15 to 11:15 a.m.  Contingent Conditions

This workshop is focused on how to improve both salary and working conditions for contingent faculty                                                                               

Panelists: Cat Warren, Assoc. Prof., English, NC State
                Richie Zweigenhaft, Prof., Psychology, Guilford College
                         

         11:15 to 11:30 a.m.                                     Coffee Break

      
       11:30 am to 12:30 p.m.     North Carolina and HOPE

This workshop deals with why the North Carolina Anti-Collective Bargaining Statute has to go. Why collective   bargaining? What are the expectations of the AAUP if it becomes a member?

Panelists:  Jeff Leiter, Professor of Sociology, NC State
                 Andy Perrin, Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill
                 David Zonderman, Associate Professor of HIstory, NC State
                 Chelsea Earles, NC HOPE Coalition Administrator
                               

       12:30 to 1:30 p.m                                                          Lunch in the Atrium

       1:30 to 2:30 p.m                                        NC-AAUP Annual Business Meeting
       
        NC-AAUP President Cat Warren Presiding
       
                                  Agenda
                                                     Approval of Minutes
                                                     Updates on Elections
                                                     Amendments to Conference By-laws
                                                     Discussion on Becoming Core Member of NC HOPE
                                                     Reports/Discussion from Campuses
                                                               
        ADJOURNMENT

         2:30 – 2:45 p.m.                                                                        Coffee Break

         2:45– 3:45 p.m.                                  Nuts and Bolts:  AAUP Chapter Leaders

This informal gathering will bring chapter leaders across the state to formulate their agendas and future.

Presiders:   Glenn Howze, AAUP National Council Member, District V
                  Martha McCaughey, NC-AAUP Foundation President, Appalachian State