CFP: American Association of University Professors.

Last Call for Proposals
Last month we invited you to submit a proposal for our annual Conference on the State of Higher Education. If you have already submitted a proposal, we will be in touch about selection decisions. If you have not submitted a proposal, there is still time. Please read the following announcement and respond by October 31, 2009.
Presenters are invited to propose a wide range of issues related to academic freedom, governance, faculty work life, rights, and responsibilities. Among the questions the conference will explore are:
• The role of faculty in institutional decision making • Challenges to academic freedom in the United States and abroad• The exploitation of contingent labor in colleges and universities• The conflict between institutional rankings and educational priorities • Strategic approaches to furloughs, cutbacks, and salary freezes• Funding and defunding public education• Increasing access to tenure• Race, gender, and sexual orientation • Discrimination in hiring, promotion, and tenure• Online education: the pros and cons• Assessment and accountability• The corporatization of teaching and research• The twenty-first century curriculum
The goal of the conference is to provide a faculty perspective on critical issues in higher education presented in a format accessible to the general public.
The conference will include special AAUP-sponsored workshops on:• Protecting an Independent Faculty Voice at Public Institutions: the Legal Landscape• Winning Anti-Discrimination Policies and Domestic Partner Benefits: Case Studies of Campus Successes• The Ratcheting Up of Expectations for Tenure: Are Faculty Their Own Worst Enemy?
The AAUP conference receives extensive coverage in the educational press, often including coverage of individual papers at sessions of interest to the press; selected papers from the conference will be published in the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom, a new online journal distributed to 355,000 faculty
Deadline for submission of proposals: October 31, 2009. Learn more about the conference and see the guidelines for proposals. Please forward this announcement to relevant listservs.
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