THE INFO PAGE

Elected and Appointed Officers of the Emeritus  Assembly President:  Nicholas Welchman (2006-2008) welchman@rcn.com Vice President:  Timothy Killeen (2006-2008) killeen3@charter.net Secretary:  Cecilia Welna (2005-2007) seawell31@aol.com Treasurer:  John Kolega (2005-2007) 129 Conantville Road Mansfield Ctr., CT  06250 Membership:  Timothy Killeen Address as above Newsletter Editor:  Mary Rogers mrbeckert@sbcglobal.net Liaison-AAUP CT Conference:  Morton Tenzer m.tenzer@sbcglobal.net Nominating Committee chair:  Morton Tenzer Address as above

ANNOUNCEMENT

Elections for the offices of Secretary and Treasurer are due this year.  Mort Tenzer is Chair of the Nominating Committee.  His address is  in the officers’ list..  Please let him know if you would like to be part of the committee,  nominate someone for the two positions,  or volunteer for either of the two positions.  He will be submitting the slate to the attendees at the May 6th, 2007 meeting.  Voting will take place at the June  meeting.  Do make a point of participating.

EDITORIAL

Retirees who are receiving this newsletter for the first time may be interested to know why these particular programs have been arranged. The custom of the Emeritus Assembly is this: Professional and legislative matters in the fall, CULTURE every spring - orchestral concerts, art museums, history museums, historical houses, the Emeritus Assembly has enjoyed many such visits. This year, something new: theater in May, flowers in June.                                        Events back on campus: What is your opinion?                 Discuss with other retirees over lunch Sun. May 6 and Thurs. June 21. UCONN is considering a new contract. Local newspapers say it “carries a 2.75% general wage increase for professors and a 3.25% cost of living adjustment for employees.” The Union Rag at Eastern provided news of growth over 3 decades from 2000 students to 5000, with an accompanying growth from 108 full time teaching faculty to 188. We might wonder why the faculty has not also increased by 2.5 times, but we are aware of the tremendous numbers, nationally, of adjunct faculty. (DO SEND us newsletters from other institutions to share news with your retired colleagues.) In Vancouver there was a conference which discussed equal pay for adjuncts. In Cambridge, there was a historic appointment: Harvard University now has a woman president, replacing the man who had suggested that women can’t do science. In the N.Y.Times, an editorial stated “the public universities were founded on the premise that they would provide broad access in exchange for taxpayer subsidies. That compact has been pretty much discarded in the state flagship campuses. . .” Do you agree with that assessment? What else concerns members of the Emeritus Assembly?