The PA-AAUP Conference Board is pleased to announce our annual fall conference. The event, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, November 7th, is free to all AAUP members who are eligible to receive travel expense stipends. It will feature AAUP President Todd Wolfson who will speak on “Higher Education Against Authoritarianism and for Multiracial Democracy.”
Our conference will include other sessions, including a talk by David Pozen (Columbia Law School). Professor Pozen, is the co-author (with Daniel Hemel) of an incisive new law review essay, “In Search of University Democracy.” Pozen and Hemel’s argument for “stakeholder governance” as a replacement to the ubiquitous “external governance” of so many governing boards, is sure to spark considerable interest. We will consider effective strategies for countering higher education managerialism and the proliferation of consultancy firms that are undercutting shared governance, academic freedom and free expression, and faculty rights.
We look forward to greeting participants at this perilous time in higher education. We are able to offer conference stipends to defray participation expenses. Please check out the registration URL: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/7jetpn9
Agenda:
9:00-9:30 am Coffee & Continental Breakfast
9:30 am Welcome remarks: Dennis Deslippe (President, PA-AAUP Conf. Board)
9:40-10:00 am Chapter networking and strategy sharing session
10:00-11:00 am Session #1: Todd Wolfson (President, AAUP), “Higher Education
Against Authoritarianism and for Multiracial Democracy” A
11:00-11:15 am Break
11:15 am – noon Session #2: David Pozen (Columbia Law School), “In Search of
University Democracy”
Noon-12:30 pm Casual lunch (provided)
12:30-1:00 pm Wrap-up discussion: “How useful are formal alliances within the
PA Conference?”
We are pleased to offer stipends to conference attendees who are AAUP members to offset travel costs (to be paid after Nov. 7th):
–$50 stipends for attendees traveling 60 miles or less
–$80 stipends for attendees traveling 120 miles or less
–$150 stipends for attendees traveling more than 120 miles.