APSCUF CONFERENCE ON LABOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION
October 15-17, 2009
Holiday Inn East
 Harrisburg, PA

Call for Papers, Colloquy, and Workshops

This conference seeks to examine the issues currently confronting teachers, scholars, researchers, coaches, professional staff and other interested parties who perform academic labor in higher education.  The conference provides a forum to explore, discuss, and debate academic labor issues across disciplinary boundaries.   In particular the conference will focus on the current direction of academic labor and the development of practical ways to address the issues raised. 
These issues may broadly include but are not limited to:

·         Academic freedom
·         Accountability
·         Assessment
·         Class size
·         Coaches Issues
·         Collective Bargaining
·         Contingent Faculty
·         De-unionization and Poverty
·         Distance Education
·         Diversity
·         Evaluation
·         Faculty Development
·         Funding Practices
·         Governance
·         Graduate Students
·         Grievance
·         Healthcare
·         Hiring Practices
·         Information Security
·         Intellectual Property
·         Job Actions
·         Legal Issues
·         Political Action
·         Productivity
·         Promotion
·         Publication
·         Remuneration
·         Sabbatical
·         Social Class Issues
·         Strike Experience
·         Tenure
·         Unionism
·         Unionism and Social Transformation
·         Workload

Proposals addressing the following topics are particularly welcome in the workshop format:
·         Building Solidarity
·         The Nuts and Bolts of Striking

Plenary speakers will include Marc Bousquet (Department of English, Santa Clara and author of “How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation”)

500-word abstracts should be submitted in Word 2007, following this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract e) body of abstract

Abstracts should be submitted by Friday May 8, 2009 to:

Amy R. Walters
Vice President
APSCUF
319 North Front Street
PO Box 11995
Harrisburg, PA 17108-1995
e-mail: awalters@apscuf.org

FOR AN ONLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM, CLICK HERE!

If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper or materials for workshop should be submitted by Friday, August 7, 2009.

Electronic submissions are encouraged.  All submissions will be acknowledged with a receipt.  If your electronic proposal has not been acknowledged within one week, please inquire. Mail paper proposals with return receipt.

This project is sponsored by APSCUF, Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties.

Website: http://www.apscuf.org