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National Congress Press Release

Interested in creating better working conditions for Graduate Teaching
Assistants, part-time faculty, adjuncts, and non-tenure-track full-time
faculty?

In Washington DC, December 27-28, concurrent with the MLA Convention,
will be a National Congress of Part Time, Adjunct, GTA, and Non-Tenure
Track faculty. We will be meeting to share information and ideas about
solutions to the ongoing crisis in the working conditions of
marginalized faculty like us. The National Congress will include
workshops on specific issues of interest to graduate students,
part-timers, and full-time faculty who are committed to justice in
higher education, as well as plenary discussions on such issues as
unionization of marginal faculty, how to make the AAUP more responsive
to part-timer/GTA concerns, and ways to open the make the MLA more
engaged in issues of justice in employment.

The National Congress is free and open to anyone genuinely interested
in the employment conditions of part-time faculty, GTAs, non-tenure
track faculty, and adjuncts.

More information, and a chance to get involved in planning the National
Congress, is available by joining the NATLCONG listserv. Send a
subscription message ("Subscribe NATLCONG yourname") to
listserv@gwuvm.gwu.edu. Other requests for information can be directed
to whitejj@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu.

I hope many of you, especially those already planning on attending the
MLA this December, will participate in what looks to be a very
important event in the development of a national strategy for justice
in college/university teaching.