The event will feature three panels with organizers, lawyers, and academics examining how institutions in higher education have transformed over the last twenty years. The panels will discuss the explosion of student debt, contingent labor, organizing campus workers (including graduates students' recent victory at NYU and adjuncts), interns, gentrification and expansion, international human rights issues on international campuses, and other related issues.
The event is free and open to the public. The last panel of the day, “Schooling the University: Winning Workplace Justice for Workers” will be offered as a CLE. Advance registration is required for CLE credit.
To register for the first two panels, please click here:
To register for the CLE, please click here and read below.
CLE Credit
Schooling the University offers attorneys 2.0 Professional Practice CLE Credits for a suggested donation of:
$5 for students, legal workers, and organizers
$20 for NLG-NYC members in good standing; or
$40 for non-NLG-NYC members. Please note that the CLE is appropriate for newly admitted and experienced attorneys.
$40 for non-NLG-NYC members. Please note that the CLE is appropriate for newly admitted and experienced attorneys.
Financial Scholarships & Fee Waivers
We are committed to making this panel available and affordable. As such, low-income and public interest attorneys are strongly encouraged to apply for financial assistance to defer the suggested donation. All requests for financial assistance must follow the guidelines found at http://goo.gl/Kt77vi. Requests should be in writing and directed to Cristina Gallo at cristina.gallo@gmail.com.
Schedule of events
12:00 p.m. Registration
12:30 p.m. Welcome (10 minutes)
Cristina Gallo, Co-Chair, National Lawyers Guild New York City Chapter Labor and Employment Committee
12:40 p.m. Panel One: THE ORIGINS AND PROLIFERATION OF THE CORPORATE UNIVERSITY (90 minutes)
Moderator:
Anya Kamenetz, Journalist and author of Generation DebtPanelists:
Chris Rzonca, Professor, Liberal Studies Program New York University, and NYU Unit Chair of Adjuncts Come Together--United Auto Workers (ACT-UAW) Local 7902
Robert Hiltonsmith, Senior Policy Analyst, Demos
Sean M. Kennedy, Coordinator for Advocacy and Education, CUNY Adjunct Project
Katherine Hansen, Associate, Gladstein, Reif, Meginniss, LLP
Katherine Hansen, Associate, Gladstein, Reif, Meginniss, LLP
2:10 p.m. Lunch Break (50 minutes)
3:00 p.m. Panel Two: ORGANIZING FOR A DEMOCRATIC HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM (90 minutes)
Moderator:
Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Practice, NYU Gallatin
Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Practice, NYU Gallatin
Daniel Aldana Cohen, Organizer, GSOC-UAW Local 2110
Ann Larson, Organizer, Debt Collective
Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Aaron Greenberg, Chair, Graduate Employees & Students Organization
4:30 p.m. Coffee Break (30 minutes)
5:00 p.m. Panel Three: SCHOOLING THE UNIVERSITY: WINNING WORKPLACE JUSTICE FOR CAMPUS WORKERS (120 minutes)
Moderator:
Tsedeye Gebreselassie ‘07, Senior Staff Attorney, National Employment Law Project
Panelists:
Dr. Robin Sowards,
Juno Turner, Partner, Outten & Golden LLP
Saerom Park ‘11, Law Fellow, Service Employees International Union
6:30 p.m. Question & Answer Period and Closing Remarks (30 minutes)
7:30pm Reception (Golding Lounge)
7:30pm Reception (Golding Lounge)
