Who: Gary Rhoades, Ph.D. is the general secretary of AAUP and a scholar in the field of higher education
Download Slides (pdf file) of his presentation. See the On line slides from his presentation. Gary Rhoades talk reflects his concerns about trends in higher education, especially with respect to tenure, academic freedom, and faculty governance. The YouTube Playlist of Gary Rhoades' presentation is now online.
His talk included:
· the voice of faculty, staff, and students
· defunding public universities
· shifting institutional expenditures from education to administration
· raising tuition and fees
· decreasing the proportion of tenure-track faculty.
All are issues with direct implications for NMSU, its faculty, and its students.
Keynote address by Gary Rhoades. His presentation will no doubt reflect his concerns about trends in higher education, especially with respect to administrative transparency, budgetary constraints and faculty governance (See Video of Recent Presentation: What's Wrong With This Picture? ). Photo is from June 18, 2009 Chronicle of Higher Education "One questioner pointed out that on his campus, a lot of tenure-track faculty members "refuse to consider" the plight of contingent colleagues who don't have much say in what happens. 'For too many tenure-track faculty, contingent faculty are like Ralph Ellison's "invisible man"—they don't exist,' Mr. Rhoades responded."At NMSU the stimulus monies are being invested in facilities, and in Texas its being invested in research capacity and faculty. Rhoades, says, "It makes little sense to invest in facilities, as in the stimulus package, if one does not also invest in the faculty and personnel who will conduct the work within those facilities" (California Faculty Magazine, 2009: p. 22).
"The principles of the American Association of University Professors hold that the managerial assertion of financial emergency powers does not justify failing to incorporate the full and meaningful participation of faculty in shared governance. Moreover, despite the current challenges higher education faces and as a recent resolution of the AAUP’s Collective Bargaining Congress Executive Committee asserts, it is time to turn around decades-long patterns of decreased funding to and within the academy" (Read More).
Biography (edited from AAUP.org) (Twitter) Gary Rhoades began his term as general secretary of AAUP in January 2009 after twelve years as professor of higher education at the University of Arizona and director of the university’s Center for the Study of Higher Education and more than twenty-five years in the field of higher education. His research focuses on professions in academe, university restructuring, and science and technology issues in higher education. Recent presentations include: Transforming our Focus: Intellectual Capital, Economic Stimulus, and the Fourth ‘A’, Academics. Rhoades is the author of Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor (SUNY Press) and co-author of Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press). Today the AAUP is announcing that Rhoades will be its next general secretary. Much of his work looks critically at the way new economic models in higher education have been used to change and in some cases limit faculty roles and rights.
April 30th Friday 3-5PM Gary Rhoades event. Can't make it to the Rhoades forum? We will post a video of the presentation with links here, as soon as we can process the files |Please print and distribute color flyer for this event | Print black and white flyer |
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April 30th Friday 3-5PM Gary Rhoades event. Please print and distribute color flyer for this event | Print black and white flyer | The YouTube Playlist of Gary Rhoades' presentation is now online.