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| EXECUTIVE BOARD PROGRAM PLANNING MEETING | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 19, 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attending: Nick Welchman (presiding), May Giger, Walter Giger, David De Nuccio Tim Killeen, Cecilia Welna. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The meeting began at 10:08 AM atthe De Nuccio home in Farmington. A summary list of past meetings and suggestions received recently by Pres. Welchman were reviewed and discussed as potential programs for Fall 2001 and Spring 2008. The following potential programs were approved by oral consensus for further investigation: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 4,2007 (organizer: Nick Welchman) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Endangered Species Conservation: An Assessment and Prognosis" Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, UConn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Speaker: Michael J. Bean, Esq., Chair of the Wildlife Program, Environmental Defense Fund | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Late October or early November, 2007 (organizer: Tim Killeen) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retirement Issues | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Participants on the panel to represent AAUP, State Retirement System, state employees coalition representatives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| March or April, 2008 (organizer: Ceil Welna) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "The Life of Mrs. Auerbach" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Virginia Hale, former Chair, English Department, University of Hartford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Second Spring 2008 Program (organizer: Tim Killeen) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "equot Museum Excavation Studies" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nicholas Bellantoni, State of Connecticut Archeologist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pres. Welchman wil! ~~ the recipient of progress reports on the proposed programs. Ceil Welna will speak with Fred Cazel about the pOSSIbIlity of another garden Visit progra/Jl and report to the OctOber meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The meeting adjoumed at 12:08 PM.' David De Nuccio, Sec'y | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Addendum:
At the same meeting, May Giger informed the committee that the EmeritusAssemblyCT.org site that Judy Lefelar developed and maintained for the group was not renewed and is no longer active. She will contact Ms. Lefelar re transferring the domain to the assembly and if some of the web pages on that site can be folded into the eact.info site. It was also suggested that perhaps Clifford Pelletier may be approached for helping with the eact.info site. |
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| STATE CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Four delegates representing the Connecticut State Conference attended the national Annual Meeting of AAUP in Washington on June 6-10. Thanks to the scheduling efforts of Ann Doyle (UConn), the group visited the offices of all seven members of Connecticut's Congressional delegation, pressing for the reauthorization ofthe Higher Education Act. increased Pell Grant funding, and an end to the student loan scandals. Opposition was expressed to the right wing inspired so-called "student bill of rights. H Gratifyingly, staff of the five Con'gresspersons and two Senators seemed to agree with the AAUP positions. There were also brief hallway encounters with Representatives Rosa DeLaura and Joe Courtney. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Annual Meetingˇitselfwas made up of a number of workshops, panels and speakers, the highlight being, as always, the plenary session during which the membership votes censure on institutions found to be violating academic freedom,'" Connecticut's Flo Hatcher was continued in her leadership role in the Assembly of State Conferences; and with the departure of Roger Bowen, Ernst Benjamin was brought back to serve as acting General Secretary. Resolution of longstanding problems with the computerized records of membership and finances will finally be resolved by replacing the system; and serious consideration of restructuring the organization is underway. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A meeting of the Executive Committee of the State Conference was held on August 16 to plan for the fall's activities and to learn of new developments since June. The National will be issuing a revised academic freedom statement that will expand permissible faculty speech in class. A new e-mail system is being developed through which access to 350,000 faculty names will be available. There will be a state Conference Fall Meeting, probably on November 8 in the New Haven area. with workshops on a variety of issues. George Lang will be memorialized by an award in his name. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| '* Editor's note: for details go to www.aaup.org/ AAUP/newsroom/prarchives.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Morton Tenzer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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