Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:53:06 -0400 (EDT)
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From: maguire.9@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jessica Maguire)
Subject: Fwd:National Congress
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>>From: fhcastrillon@ucdavis.edu (Fernando Castrill=F3n )
>>To: socgrad@ucdavis.edu
>>Subject: National Congress
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>>FYI,
>>Fernando
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>>>             *********** National Congress **********
>>>
>>>        Interested in creating better working conditions for Graduate
>>>Teaching Assistants, part-time faculty, adjuncts, and non-tenure-track
>>>full-time faculty?
>>>
>>>        In Washington DC, December 27-28, concurrent with the Modern
>>>Language Association (MLA) Convention, there will be a National Congress
>>>of Part Time, Adjunct, GTA, and Non-Tenure Track faculty.  We will be
>>>meeting to share information and ideas about solutions to the ongoing
>>>crisis in the working conditions of marginalized faculty.  The National
>>>Congress will include workshops on specific issues of interest to graduate
>>>students, part-timers, and full-time faculty who are committed to justice
>>>in higher education, as well as plenary discussions on such issues as
>>>unionization of marginal faculty, how to make the AAUP more responsive to
>>>part-timer/GTA concerns, and ways to make the MLA and other professional
>>>academic organizations more engaged in issues of justice in employment.
>>>
>>>        The National Congress is free and open to anyone genuinely
>>>interested in the employment conditions of part-time faculty, GTAs,
>>>non-tenure track faculty, and adjuncts.
>>>
>>>        More information, and a chance to get involved in planning the
>>>National Congress, is available by joining the NATLCONG listserv.  Send a
>>>subscription message ("Subscribe NATLCONG yourname") to:
>>>        listserv@gwuvm.gwu.edu.
>>>
>>>        Other requests for information can be directed to:
>>>        whitejj@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu.
>>>        mcg@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
>>>
>>>        We hope many of you, especially those already planning on
>>>attending the MLA this December, will participate in what looks to be a
>>>very important event in the development of a national strategy for justice
>>>in college/university teaching.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>Fernando Castrillon                     (916) 753-5678
>>Department of Sociology                 (916) 752-6772
>>University of California
>>Davis, CA. 95616                        fhcastrillon@ucdavis.edu
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>>"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."  Gandhi
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