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Congratulations to the two NEA Higher Ed members who have won NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards this year. Mary Ann Pacheco, English professor at Rio Hondo Community College, has been honored with the George I. Sanchez Memorial Award, while Paul Hernandez, assistant professor at Central Michigan University, has been awarded the Reg Weaver Human and Civil Rights Award.
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The 30th annual NEA Higher Education Conference will be held March 2-4 at the Palmer House hotel in Chicago. Its theme, "Defining our Values, Affirming our Ideas," promises to be inclusive of full-time and part-time faculty, professional staff, and education support professionals in higher education. Look for sessions on organizing, professional development, and policy -- and featured speaker U.S. Rep. Jessie Jackson, Jr.. To register, go here. For more information, and to download a preliminary conference agenda, go here.
Community Colleges: An $8 Billion Budget Line
Part-time faculty organizing for rights and respect
Curtis Keyes, Jr., has been fired three times in his fight for a union at East-West University in Chicago. None of that will stop him. Across the country, tens of thousands of contingent, or non-tenure track faculty members, are denied fair pay and rights. Read more.Why you should care about the Occupy Movement
NEA's Office of Higher Ed sat down with Henry Giroux to talk about the Occupy Movement and what faculty and staff might learn from its student protesters. Read more.Help for aging community colleges
The proposed Fix America's Schools Today Act includes $5 billion to rebuild and modernize community colleges. How do you prepare students for 21st century jobs in 20th century facilities? Learn more and help NEA to lobby effectively for this much-needed money.This is your chance! Become a better leader.
The NEA Office of Higher Education is currently soliciting nominations and accepting applications for the 2013 class of the Emerging Leaders Academy. Learn more about terrific organizing work done recently in California by Class of 2012 in this story. Also learn more about ELA's purpose, its training activities, and how to apply here.For more news from the NEA Office of Higher Education, go here.
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To learn more about the work of the NEA in higher education and the issues and priorities of our higher education members—faculty, education support professionals, academic professionals and graduate assistants—follow these links to NEA's Higher Education program.
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