44th Annual National Conference
Creating Solutions in Challenging Times
March 26-28, 2017

Introduction to Podcasts from the 44th Annual Conference

As part of the National Center’s educational and research mission, we have posted below podcasts from our 2017 annual conference at the CUNY Graduate
Center in New York. The podcasts represent a sampling of the quality presentations made at the conference on contemporary issues in collective bargaining
and labor relations in higher education.  We thank Becca Pulliam from Please Repeat the Question Productions and the CUNY Graduate Center's ICIT
Department for their production assistance.

Listen to the Podcasts of the panel discussions.
Plenary: The Impact of Anti-Intellectualism on the State of Higher Education Susan Jacoby, author, The Age of American Unreason Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities Hank Reichman, AAUP Vice President Frederick P. Schaffer, Chair, NYC Campaign Finance Board and former CUNY General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, Moderator
Graduate Student Employees: Collective Bargaining After the NLRB's Columbia University Decision (CLE) Joseph W. Ambash, Fisher & Phillips, LLP  Daniel Julius, Senior Vice-President and Provost, New Jersey City University Julie Kushner, UAW Region 9A Director  Wilma Liebman, Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University, School of Management and Labor Relations, and former NLRB Chair  Melissa Korn, Reporter, Wall Street Journal, Moderator
Current Issues at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Ronald Mason, Jr., University of District of Columbia President John Brittain, Professor of Law, District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law  Elizabeth K. Davenport, Florida A&M University United Faculty of Florida/AFT/NEA President Felecia Commodore, Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations & Leadership, Old Dominion University, Moderator
Overtime Compensation and Pay Equity in Higher Education (CLE) John S. Ho, Cozen O’Connor Rosemary DiSavino, EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Maria Maisto, New Faculty Majority President Mark Smith, NEA Higher Education Policy Analyst Debbie Bell, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY Executive Director, Moderator
Lincoln, Labor, and Race Harold Holzer, Jonathan F. Fanton Director, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Hunter College, Panelist and Moderator Edna Greene Medford, Chair, Howard University Department of History James Oakes, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
Click here for photographs from the 44th Annual Conference.