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Schedule
2024
Monday, March 18th
9:00 AM

Welcoming Remarks

Ann Kirschner, Hunter College
Thomas Riley, University of Illinois System Special Counsel
Galia Galansky, CUNY
DeWayne Sheaffer, National Council for Higher Education/NEA
William Herbert, National Center Executive Director

Proshansky Auditorium

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM

Keynote Presentation

Thomas Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management

Proshansky Auditorium

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

10:45 AM

Facilitated Session: Practices To Cultivate Calm and Resilience For Labor & Management Professionals

Lili Palacious-Baldwin, Tufts University

C197

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

10:45 AM

Panel: Addressing Institutional Betrayal at the Table - Tackling Harassment and Title IX Issues Through Collective Bargaining

Risa Lieberwitz, AAUP General Counsel
Karen Stubaus, National Center Visiting Scholar
Alexandra (Sascha) Matish, University of Michigan
Cora Bergantiños-Crespo, Columbia University
Paula Burke (Moderator), Huron Consulting Group

C204-205

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

10:45 AM

Panel: Navigating Generative AI in Higher Education - Implications for Pedagogy, Research, and Collective Bargaining

Kyle Arnone, AFT Collective Bargaining Center
Anthony Picciano, Hunter College
Amanda Blair, Fisher & Phillips LLP
Rob Weil, AFT Director of Policy

C201-202

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

10:45 AM

Panel: Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decisions - Impact on DEI in Higher Education Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining

Kapil Longani, SUNY
Channing Cooper, AFT
J. Brian Charles, Chronicle of Higher Education
Angela Thompson, U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Review Board

C198

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

1:30 PM

Book Discussion: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History

Gwendolyn Alker, New York University
Joe Berry, City College of San Francisco and University of Illinois
Anne McLeer, SEIU Local 500
Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona
Eric Fure-Slocum (Moderator), Co-Editor of CONTINGENT FACULTY AND THE REMAKING OF HIGHER EDUCATION

C201-202

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

1:30 PM

Panel: Best Practices in Collective Negotiations

Pamela Silverblatt, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
John Gross, Ingerman Smith LLP
Frederick Floss, SUNY Buffalo State University
Elizabeth Vignaux, NYSUT
Scott Sommer (Moderator), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

C204-205

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

1:30 PM

Panel: Collaborating Across The Table - The Value Of Labor-Management Cooperation In Reversing Contingency

Carla Katz, Rutgers University
Kim O'Halloran, Rutgers University
Heather Pierce, Rutgers University
Melissa Sortman (Moderator), Michigan State University

C198

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

1:30 PM

Panel: Collective Bargaining Concerning Library Personnel in Higher Education

Meredith Kahn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kelly McElroy, United Academic of Oregon State
Adriene Lim, University of Maryland-College Park
Consuella Askew, Rutgers University Libraries
Ahsan Ali, Tufts University

C197

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:15 PM

Book Discussion: The Costs of Completion: Student Success In Community College

Robin Isseries, Author
Christine Mangino, Queensborough Community College
Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, Faculty Association of California Community Colleges
Colena Sesanker, Gateway Community College
Jennifer Shanoski (Moderator), Merritt College

C197

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

3:15 PM

Facilitated Session: Bargaining Over Job Security For Contingent Faculty

Benjamin Superfine, University of Chicago Illinois
Mia McIver, UCLA, former President and Lead Negotiator UC-AFT Local 1474
Theodore Curry (Moderator), Michigan State University

C201-202

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

3:15 PM

Panel: Best Practices In Arbitration In Higher Education And The Professions

Mark Gaston Pearce, Georgetown University Law School
Katie Rosen, Labor Arbitrator & Mediator
Marlene Gold, Labor Arbitrator & Mediator
Homer La Rue (Moderator), Labor Arbitrator & Mediator, Howard University Law School

C204-205

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

3:15 PM

Panel: The First Amendment And The Erosion Of Managerial Authority

Martin Malin, Illinois Institute of Technology
Rachel Paster, NYSUT
Howard Miller, Schoeneck & King PLLC
Sara Slinn (Moderator), York University

C198

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM