COCAL XI in New York City
August 4-6, 2014
The eleventh COCAL Conference will be held Monday, August 4 through Wednesday, August 6 at John Jay College in New York City. Plenaries, forums and workshops will deal with problems faced by contingent faculty in higher education in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, as well well as around the globe. Possible solutions and actions will be planned.
Details about the NYC COCAL conference
About COCAL:
Montreal March
(Photo by Vicki Smallman)
The Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor is a biennialconference and a network of North American activists working to improve higher education through the collective achievement of job reliability, livable wages, academic freedom, and time and resources for academic research and professional development for contingent academic laborers. COCAL is not affiliated with any single labor union and promotes grassroots contingent faculty organizing through events like Campus Equity Week. To achieve its aims, COCAL dedicates itself to alerting the broader community about the trends that undermine the tenets of higher education by staging media events, improving legislation concerning higher education and so-called accountability efforts, and identifying colleagues at institutions and assisting them in forming collective bargaining units and negotiating strong contracts.
Because COCAL’s world view recognizes that the fight for contingent faculty parallels the struggles of other contingent workers, many members also participate in The North American Alliance for Fair Employment (NAFFE), a broader network concerned about the growth of contingent work in general. COCAL sees the strength and freedom of faculty as a key to maintaining accessible, quality higher education and, ultimately, free inquiry for a democratic society.
http://cocalinternational.org/events.html
