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Campus Equity Week: Calendar
Monday, October 1Steering Committee MeetingThe Chicago-CEW Steering Committee will meet at 3:00, at the UPI office, 11 East Adams, #1106, Chicago. For more information contact the CEW Midwest Coordinator at 344-8283 or e-mail him at joeberry@igc.org. Back to the Calendar Thursday, October 18Focus: On Part-Time FacultyCome learn what works from those who have been there: 6-9 p.m., Congress Lounge, second floor, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Guest speaker Susan Levy, past president of the Washington Federation of Teachers: Organizing tales from California and Washington State. Plus: Sneak preview, A Simple Matter of Justice, a video by Barbara Wolf, producer of Degrees of Shame. Please download and distribute the flyer. For more information contact the CEW Midwest Contact at 344-8283 or e-mail him at joeberry@igc.org. Back to the Calendar Thursday, October 25State Hearings on the Exploitation and Abuse of AdjunctsState hearings on the exploitation and abuse of adjuncts at Illinois colleges and universities will be held at 1:00 PM at College of DuPage Campus (Glen Ellyn, IL) in OCC 128 A & B (near the intersection of Fawell Boulevard and Lambert Road). Senator Dan Cronin will be chairing the hearing at COD. Senator Dan Cronin is chairman of the Education committee in the Illinois Senate, which has under consideration House Bill 1720. House Bill 1720 would significantly amend the loathsome Harper decision, which disenfranchises adjuncts, keeping us powerless and without legal recourse. For more information, email Tom Suhrbur at TSuhrbur@nea.org.See summary of hearings. Back to the Calendar Monday, October 29CEW Opening Peanut Rally11:00 am to 1:00 pm, State of Illinois Building, James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph Street, Chicago. Question: What do elephants and Part-time Faculty have in Common? Answer: They both work for peanuts. Have a peanut or two on us! Sponsored by University Professionals of Illinois Local 4100 as part of the Metro-Chicago CEW Coalition. For more information email Sue Kaufman at skaufman@ift-aft.org. Back to the Calendar Monday, October 29Committee for New Priorities: The Right to Organize Goes to CollegeOrganizing Resistance to the Restucturing of Higher Education Work: UNITE Union Hall, 333 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, 6:30 reception, 7:00 - 9:00 forum. What does it mean for students and teachers that more than half the classes at many universities are now taught by "perma-temps"? For more information email the Committee for New Priorities at jwjcnp@igc.org. See the flyer.Back to the Calendar Tuesday, October 30State of Illinois Board of Higher Education: Public HearingsChicago Hearing10:00 a.m. to Noon, James R. Thompson Center, 9-040, 100 W. Randolph Street.
Back to the Calendar Tuesday, October 30CEW Event at Roosevelt: Organizing in the Private SectorTuesday, October 30 from 3pm to 6pm in the Congress lounge at the Roosevelt downtown campus. This will feature speakers from RAFO and from Columbia College's P-FAC. For more information email the Roosevelt Adjunct Faculty Organization at info@rafo.org. Back to the Calendar Wednesday, October 31UIC-GEO Healthcare Horror ShowIt's scary to depend on healthcare benefits at the University of Illinois! That's why members of the UIC Graduate Employees Organization are dressing up this Halloween as "Health Care Victims." They'll be dressed as zombies, because their allergy medication isn't covered. They'll be swathed in bandages, because many injuries aren't covered. Graduate Employee "Health Care Victims" will be making surprise appearances across UIC campus. Contact Kat McLellan at kmclel1@uic.edu for further information. Back to the Calendar Thursday, November 1Marc Bousquet: Lecture and Reception5:30 - 7:30, UIC Student Services Building, Meeting Room C, 1200 West Harrison (near the Racine stop on the blue line).
Back to the Calendar Thursday, November 1CEW Benefit at The Hideout$81354 W. Wabansia, Chicago. (Take the Kennedy Expressway (I-90/94) to the North Avenue exit. Proceed east on North Avenue to Elston. Go north (left) on Elston a few blocks to Wabansia & turn right. It's right there on the left.) The benefit will be from 8:00 - 11:00. Featuring the music of Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel, Leroy Bach and Edward Burch, GEO Speedwagon, and maybe more, the CEW benefit will be an opportunity to get together in a relaxed atmosphere and learn more about the plight of contingent faculty. For more information email Kat at kmclel1@uic.edu. Download the flyer. Back to the Calendar Friday, November 2Campus Equity Week Final Conference and RALLY!Keynote Speaker: Cary NelsonWe will begin with a rally in front of the State Building
at 12:00. The Chicago-Area CEW Conference will be held from 2-6 PM, at Harold Washington College,
30 East Lake Street, Chicago, IL. We will have panels on the state of the organizing movement;
graduate employee organizing; the laws which pertain to contingent faculty; how to start
organizing a union from scratch, and much more. For more information
contact the CEW Midwest Contact at 344-8283 or e-mail him at joeberry@igc.org.
Back to the Calendar Tuesday, November 6AAUP Forum at Loyola: "The Temping of the Academy"3-5 PM, Damen Hall, Room 147
Back to the Calendar Thursday, November 8State of Illinois Board of Higher Education: Public HearingsSpringfield Hearing10:00 a.m. to Noon, University of Illinois at Springfield, Conference Room H, Public Affairs Center, Shepard Road.
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