| 2025 |
| Monday, March 24th |
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9:10 AM
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Plenary: Five Years After George Floyd: A New Era for DEI in Higher Education
Nancy Cantor, President, Hunter College, CUNY
Robert J. Jones, Chancellor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Charles Toombs, President, California Faculty Association
Lorelle L. Espinosa, Higher Education Program Director, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Adrianna J. Kezar, Professor, Higher Education and Director, Pullias Center for Higher Education, University of Southern California, Moderator
Proshansky Auditorium
9:10 AM - 10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
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Panel: Antiracism and Social Justice Issues and Working Conditions as Negotiable Subjects
Sharon Elise, Professor of Sociology, CSU San Marcos and Associate Vice President, Council for Racial and Social Justice, California Faculty Association
Kathy Sheffield, Director of Representation and Bargaining, California Faculty Association
Karen R. Stubaus, Affiliated Researcher and Visiting Scholar, National Center, and VP for Academic Affairs Emerita, Rutgers University
Margarita Berta Avila, Professor of Education, Sacramento State University and Vice President, California Faculty Association, Moderator
C201-202
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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| 11:00 AM |
Panel: Artificial Intelligence: Changing the Bargaining Landscape
Jeffrey M. Hirsch, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Geneva Yeargan Rand Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
Alec Thomson, President, National Council for Higher Education, NEA
Nicholas L. Collins, ArentFox Schiff LLP
Arthur Pearlstein, Arbitrator and Mediator, Moderator
Proshansky Auditorium
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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| 11:00 AM |
Panel: Loper Bright, Labor Rights, and the Attack on the Administrative State
Diana Reddy, Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law and Work, UC Berkeley Law
Seth D. Harris, Distinguished Professor of Practive, Doctoral Program in Law & Policy and Affiliated Faculty and Senior Fellow, Burnes Center for Social Change, Northeastern University
David Lopez, University Professor of Law, Professor Alfred Slocum Scholar, and Co-Dean Emeritus, Rutgers University
Deepa Das Acevado, Associate Professor of Law, Emory University Law School, Moderator
C204-205
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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| 11:00 AM |
Panel: Negotiating Over Tenure Procedures
Joseph P. McConnell, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP
Jennifer Proffitt, Theodore Clevenger Professor in Communication, Co-Chief Negotator, UFF-FSU, Florida State University
Herman A. Berliner, Provost Emeritus and University Service Distinguished Professor, Professor of Economics
Maria Hegbloom, Field Representative Organizer, Massachusetts Teachers Association
Timothy Connick, Chairperson, NYS Public Employment Relations Board, Moderator
C198
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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1:30 PM
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Facilitated Workshop: Mindfulness as Both a Life Skill and a Negotiator's Asset
Lili Palacios-Baldwin, Deputy General Counsel, Tufts University
Joshua Wright, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, The City College of New York
C197
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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| 1:30 PM |
Panel: Administrator Responses to Campus Protest: Lessons from History
Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History (retired), Yeshiva University, member Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, AAUP
Paul Ortiz, Professor of Labor History, Cornell ILR
Jelani Favors, Author of SHELTER IN A TIME OF STORM: HOW BLACK COLLEGES FOSTERED GENERATIONS OF LEADERSHIP AND ACTIVISM, Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor, Department of History and Political Science, and Director, Center of Excellence for Social Justice, North Carolina A&T State University
Dale Kapla, Senior Associate Provost, Northern Michigan University, Moderator
C204-205
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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| 1:30 PM |
Panel: Beyond the Table: Best Practices for Collaboration in the Implementation of Collective Bargaining Agreements
Kim C. O'Halloran, Vice President for Academic Planning & Administration, University Academic Affairs, Rutgers University
Heather Pierce, Lecturer, Political Science, Contract Enforcement Chair, PTLFC-AAUP-AFT, Local 6324, Rutgers University
Kamil Robakiewicz, Senior Labor Relations Representative, College of Literature, Science and Arts, University of Michigan
Kirsten Herold, President, LEO, AFT-MI Local 6244
Scott M. Sommer, Commissioner, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Moderator
C198
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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| 1:30 PM |
Research Panel: Work Stoppage Across the Educational Continuum: K-12 to Higher Education
Jacob Apkarian, Associate Professor, Sociology, York College, CUNY and National Center Affiliated Researcher
Melissa Arnold Lyon, Professor of Public Policy, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY
Daniel Iskhakov, National Center Graduate Research Fellow
Rhiannon M. Maton, Associate Professor, Foundations and Social Advocacy, SUNY Cortland, and National Center Visiting Scholar, Panelist and Moderator
C201-202
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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3:30 PM
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Panel: Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Carl Levine, Levy Ratner, PC
Faye Moore, Director of Contract Administration, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY, AFT Local2334
Peter A. Jones, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
Thomas H. Riley Jr., Executive Director of Labor and Special Counsel, University of Illinois System, Panelist and Moderator
Proshansky Auditorium
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel: Faculty Members' Perceptions of the Impact of Unionization on Shared Governance
Brian Rossman, Associate Professor, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Montana State University Library, Bozeman
Ernesto Longa, Professor of Law, The University of New Mexico School of Law, Commentator
Catherine Bond Hill, Managing Director, Ithaka S+R, and former President, Vassar College, Commentator
Rotua Lumbantobing, Vice President, AAUP, Moderator
C198
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel: Sexual Harassment Adjudication in Graduate Student Employee Contracts
Tamiko Strickman, Special Advisor to the President and Executive Director, Equity, Civil Rights and Title IX Office, University of Michigan
Emily Weintraut, Teaching Assistant, UC Davis
Karen R. Stubaus, Affiliated Researcher and Visiting Scholar, National Center, and VP for Academic Affairs Emerita, Rutgers University
Melissa Sortman, Assistant Provost for Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs, Michigan State University, Moderator
C201-202
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel: The Uses and Abuses of Title VI
Rana Jaleel, Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies and Asian American Studies, University of California-Davis, Chair, Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, AAUP
Risa Lieberwitz, Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Frederick P. Schaffer, former General Counsel, CUNY
Suzanne B. Goldberg, Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law, and Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law & Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, Columbia University Law School, Moderator
C204-205
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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