United Faculty of the Contra Costa Community College District and the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges Education Institute are hosting a full-day conference on Friday, April 17 at Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill Campus.

This is your opportunity to hear from experts on retirement, financial planning, and health benefits.

KEYNOTE – ERWIN CHEMERINSKY

In 2016, Erwin Chemerinsky was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2017, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States.

When our academic freedom is threatened we need to be empowered. This conference will assemble the best experts to broaden our understanding of academic freedom and help us defend it at our community colleges.

Join local, state, and national experts as we explore how academic freedom defined, how it is protected and what happens if it is violated.

SAVE THE DATE!

When NAFTA became law in Canada, Mexico and the United States in 1994, it began to focus social, economic, and public policy toward public education as a part of the international trading community.  It opened the door for corporate enterprises to gain access to the public funds for education, thereby using its economic and political influence to direct education reform, particularly by privatizing many aspects of public education. 

Join Los Rios College Federation of Teachers for the annual Trinational Coalition to Defend Public Education. This is an incredible opportunity to show an international community of labor union leaders the role that California Faculty labor unions have played in the advancement of education, resistance to the corporate reform movement, and social justice.