The National Center’s 41st Annual Conference, which took place on April 6-8, 2014, was a major success with quality presentations examining diverse topics including issues relating to contingent faculty, social media and academic freedom, bullying, the future of pensions in academia, on-line learning and intellectual property.  The success of this year’s conference would not have been possible without the support of Hunter Collegethe hard work of numerous Hunter College andCUNY staff and conference volunteers. The conference was underwritten by a grant from TIAA-CREF with additional funding from the Segal Company.

Below are webcasts and podcasts of ten panel discussions from the 41st Annual Conference that were produced by Hunter College’s ICIT Department and by Becca Pulliam of Please Repeat the Question Productions.

Social Media and Academic Freedom under Garcetti Frederick Schaffer, Vice Chancellor, Legal Affairs, CUNY Theresa Chmara, General Counsel , AAUP Marjorie Heins, Director, The Free Expression Policy Project  Liesl Zwicklbauer, Director, Employee Relations, SUNY, Moderator	Watch the webcasts   of the panel discussions.
Social Media in Labor Relations and Student Contact: Best  Policies, Practices and Training  Henry Reichman, Vice President, American Association of University Professors Michael Loconto, Associate Director, Labor & Employee Relations, Harvard Univ.  Nicole Kendall, Associate Professor, Tennessee State University Jeffrey Cross, Associate VP, Academic Affairs, Eastern Illinois Univ., Moderator
MOOCs: Impact on the Future of Pedagogy Shanna Smith Jaggars, Assistant Director, Columbia University  Nicholas Anastasopoulos, Mirick O’Connell, Worcester, MA Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education  David Bergeron, Center for American Progress, Panelist & Moderator
Future of Pensions in Academia Timothy Lane, Managing Director, TIAA-CREF John Abraham, Director, Member Benefits Department, AFT Neil Tudiver, Assistant Executive Director, CAUT Mark Brossman, Partner, Schulte Roth & Zabel, PLLC Brian Duffy, Acting Associate Provost, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator	Part 1	Part 2
Collective Bargaining Results Regarding Contingent Faculty Holly Lawrence, VP, Executive Board, MSP/MTA/NEA Richard Nettell, University of Hawaii Professional Assembly John Bryan, Associate Provost, University of Massachusetts Lisa Bonick, Director, Academic Labor Relations, Rutgers Univ., Moderator	Part 1	Part 2