California AAUP  12th Annual Meeting

Advancing Social Justice in an Era of Intolerance

California State University, Maritime

Vallejo, California

New Dining Facility Building #14 on map, 2nd floor

Compass Room 2

Saturday, March 14, 2015, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM

This is a low-cost meeting with a big bang for your buck that promises to be informative, stimulating, solution-oriented and collegial.  

To learn more about the CA-AAUP, please visit: www.ca-aaup.org

Keynote Speaker: 
Cecil Canton

"(Re)Affirming Civil Rights, Social Justice and Affirmative Action:  The Development of the California Faculty Association Council for Affirmative Action"

Dr. Canton's presentation will reflect on the creation, development and impact of the Council for Affirmative Action on CFA's mission and action agenda.  Social Justice milestones will be highlighted and recommendations for enhancing AAUP's and other union efforts to overcome intolerance and to be more inclusive will be discussed and shared.

Cecil Canton was born, raised and educated in New York, receiving his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Masters and Doctoral degrees ((M.A., M.Ed. & Ed.D.) from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a tenured full professor in the Division of Criminal Justice at California State University, Sacramento. Dr. Canton previously served as Assistant Commissioner for Program Services with the New York State Department of Correctional Services (NYDOCS). Dr. Canton currently serves as a member of the California Faculty Association’s (CFA) Board of Directors in his capacity as Associate Vice President and Chair of the Council for Affirmative Action. He also currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Collective Bargaining Congress, and Chair of the Committee on Historically Black Institution and Scholars of Color. He has served as a member of the National Education Association’s (NEA) Membership Advisory Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE). Dr. Canton is also a specialist in conflict resolution and inter-cultural conflict resolution and a national and international trainer in the areas of dispute resolution, mediation, negotiation, facilitation, conciliation and cultural diversity. He is co-author of The Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success, published in 2002 by Rowman & Littlefield. Most significantly he is the father of Jacqueline, Jeffrey, Kendra, Jahaila, Haile and Malik, his beloved children.

plus these timely workshops, led by local and national faculty leaders and activitists:

• State Conference Committee A Principles (Academic Freedom & Tenure)
  
• Building Diversity, Building Chapter Power
• Organizing a Chapter:  Inspiring Case Histories
• The Accreditation Struggle at City College of San Francisco:  Faculty Organizing with Students and the Community to Save Our College
  

scroll down for more information about these workshops

REGISTRATION

includes morning coffee & muffins, lunch, keynote speaker, 2 workshops, and reception

Early registration fee is $25 [plus $2.37 Eventbrite fees]  through March 12, 2015.

Late registration fee is $35  at the door on March 14, 2015. credit cards not accepted on site.

Credit card payments for registration fees cannot be processed at the site of the meeting. To pay by check in advance, contact westcoast@aaup.org

ADVANCING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN AN ERA OF INTOLERANCE

12TH ANNUAL MEETING SCHEDULE     CSU Maritime  MARCH 14, 2015

WORKSHOP DETAILS

this information will be updated frequently here and at http://www.caaaup.org

Workshop 1:  State Conference Committee A  (Academic Freedom & Tenure) Principles

Core functions of state conferences are to advocate for the adoption of AAUP principles in faculty handbooks and to give advice to faculty members who are experiencing difficulties. Both functions can be exercised by a state conference Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Using the introduction to the new Redbook as a starting point, this workshop will give an overview of AAUP policies and their effective use in faculty handbooks. We will then turn to the work of a conference Committee A, to which the two functions outlined above are central and review basic principles of Committee A work.

Workshop leader:   Joerg Tiede is a professor of computer science at Illinois Wesleyan University, an independent liberal arts university of about 2,000 students located in Bloomington, IL. He currently serves as chair of the Assembly of State Conferences, on Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and as chair the Committee on the History of the Association. He also served as editor of the 2015 edition of the AAUP Redbook. He recently completed a book on the early history of the AAUP.

Workshop 2:  Building Diversity, Building Chaper Power

The theme of this workshop will be to first acknowledge the success and failures of attracting and retaining a diverse faculty and then identify ways increase unionization efforts by promoting and supporting diversity within higher education.  The workshop will finish with a roundtable talk on how the AAUP can more effectively promote diversity and look a modals such the California Faculty Association's Council for Affirmative Action.

Workshop Co- leaders: 

Scott Saarheim is President, California Faculty Association, Maritime Academy Chapter and Maritime Vocational Instructor, California State University, Maritime.

Vickie Harvey is a full professor at CSU Stanislaus. She earned her Ph.D. in health communication.  She is on the Diversity Committee and facilitates the Safe Zone campus workshops at Stanislaus for faculty, administration and staff.  She also facilitated a Safe Zone workshop at the CFA Equity Conference, and is co-chair of the LGBT caucus at CFA.

Workshop 3:  Organizing a Chapter:  Inspiring Case Histories

Workshop leader:  Jason Elias has been a labor and community organizer for over 20 years and is the Western Regional Coordinator for the American Association of University Professors.

Workshop 4:  The Accreditation Struggle at City College of San Francisco:  Faculty Organizing with Students and the Community to Save Our College

This panel of faculty and students leaders will share their analysis of the underlying causes of the dis-accreditation of CCSF and the successful coalition they built that resulted in a reversal of this dis-accreditation.  They will share lessons from this challenging and successful struggle.

Panel moderator:  Kimberly R. King is Associate Professor, Psychology Department, California State University, Los Angeles and the California Faculty Association South Representative to CA-AAUP.

Panelists:  Vickie Legion, Save City College Coalition, Faculty in Public Health, City College of San Francisco; Tarik Farrar,  Chair of African American Studies at CCSF; Lalo Gonzalez, Chair of MECHA and student leader from CCSF.

LODGING
 CA-AAUP  has searched unsuccessfully for a unionized Vallejo hotel. The only unionized lodging relatively close to Vallejo is in Concord, about 20 minutes drive (17 miles) away.)

Crowne Plaza Concord
45 John Glenn Drive
Concord, CA 94520
Phone: 1-925-825-7700
Website
http://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/concord/ccrjg/hoteldetail

CA-AAUP is reluctant to endorse a non-union hotel by choosing it as its conference hotel, so therefore we are providing  attendees with a list of nearby Vallejo hotels and ask attendees to make their own rooming arrangements.

Hotels in the Vallejo area (Priceline For March 13,14):

Courtyard By Marriott Vallejo Napa Valley (At Marine World) - $129.00
Doubletree By Hilton Hotel & Spa Napa Valley - American Canyon - $129.00
Holiday Inn Express Benicia - $141.00
Union Hotel - Bed And Breakfast - $104.00
Holiday Inn Express And Suites Napa Valley-American Canyon - $100.00
Best Western Plus Heritage Inn - $107.00
Best Western Inn And Suites At Discovery Kingdom - $80.00

The 12th Annual Meeting of the CA-AAUP will take place in the Dining Center Facility (#14) marked in red on the map.   Parking is $7 for the day.  Please park in  Lot D.  Cars with disabled person (blue) placards may park in front of building #14.

Driving Directions
From Marin, Napa, Sonoma:
Take Highway 37 east and go through Vallejo
Exit onto I-80 west toward San Francisco
Exit right at Exit 29 "Maritime Academy Drive" (watch carefully for the exit - a sign is missing. It is one exit past the Magazine Street Exit). Go to the stop light at Rt. 29 Sonoma Boulevard.
Go straight across Sonoma Blvd (Hwy 29) onto Maritime Academy Drive and follow the road onto campus.  Enter campus through the front "gate" (which is gone due to construction) and continue until you arrive in parking lot D. Do not veer off of the main entrance road! Continue  and you will end up at the venue. The ticket machine is located by career center.
 
From Sacramento:
Go west on I-80 toward San Francisco
Exit right at Exit 29 "Maritime Academy Drive" (watch carefully for the exit - a sign is missing. It is one exit past the Magazine Street Exit).
Go to the stop light at Rt. 29 Sonoma Boulevard.
Go straight across Sonoma Blvd (Hwy 29) onto Maritime Academy Drive and follow the road onto campus.  Enter campus through the front "gate" (which is gone due to construction) and continue until you arrive in parking lot D. Do not veer off of the main entrance road! Continue  andyou will end up at the venue. The ticket machine is located by career center.
 
From San Francisco and the Peninsula and southern California:
Head north on US101 toward San Francisco
Exit onto I-80 toward the Bay Bridge and Oakland
Cross the Bay Bridge and follow the signs for I-80 toward Sacramento
Cross the Carquinez Bridge (use right toll lanes). The toll is $5.00.
Immediately after toll, exit right onto Sonoma Blvd (Hwy. 29 and Exit 29A)
Left at first stop light onto Maritime Academy Drive
Follow Maritime Academy Drive down onto campus.  Enter campus through the front "gate" (which is gone due to construction) and continue until you arrive in parking lot D. Do not veer off of the main entrance road! Continue  and you will end up at the venue. The ticket machine is located by career center.
 
From Oakland
Take I-80 East toward Sacramento
Cross the Carquinez Bridge (use right toll lanes). The toll is $5.00.
Immediately after toll, exit right onto Sonoma Blvd (Hwy. 29 and Exit 29A)
Left at first stop light onto Maritime Academy Drive
Follow Maritime Academy Drive down onto campus.  Enter campus through the front "gate" (which is gone due to construction) and continue until you arrive in parking lot D. Do not veer off of the main entrance road! Continue  and you will end up at the venue. The ticket machine is located by career center.
 
From Concord, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton:
North on I-680
Cross the Benicia Bridge and head East on I-780 toward Vallejo
From I-780 - Exit onto I-80 west toward San Francisco
Exit right at Exit 29 "Maritime Academy Drive" (watch carefully for the exit - a sign is missing. It is one exit past the Magazine Street Exit).
Go to the stop light at Rt. 29 Sonoma Boulevard.
Go straight across Sonoma Blvd (Hwy 29) onto Maritime Academy Drive and follow the road onto campus .  Enter campus through the front "gate" (which is gone due to construction) and continue until they arrive in parking lot D. Do not veer off of the main entrance road! Continue  and they will end up at the venue. The ticket machine is located by career center.

PARKING ADVICE

We advise parking in Lot D  the "Waterfront Lot."

You may use a credit card or $1 bills or quarters to purchase a parking permit from the yellow pay station. If paying by cash, it is best to bring exact change.  

Rates are

$7 for 8 hours +

$5 for 4 hours

$3 for 2 hours

To properly display the permit, place the permit print side up on the dash so that the purchase information is clearly visible.

There is parking for disabled persons in front of the meeting building, the New Dining Facility, Building #14.  A valid DMV disabled placard/plate must be displayed.

IN GENERAL, the following CSU parking permits are honored at Cal Maritime when used by other CSU employees:

1.       Long term faculty / staff permits that are issued by the various CSU Parking or Police Departments.
2.       CSU system-wide passes (numbered and, and the moment, teal in color) that are issued by the Chancellor’s Office to various VIPs across the CSU system.

3. Exclusions:
a.       Student semester permits
b.       Daily temporary permits
c.       Monthly temporary permits

For more information about parking at Cal Maritime, please visit the campus parking web pages at www.csum.edu.