Higher Education Leadership Panel with (l-r) Rick Schaffer, former CUNY General Counsel, Ann Kirschner, Hunter College Interim President, Daniel Greenstein, PASSHE Chancellor and Catharine Bond Hill, Ithaka S+R, Managing Director.

Keynote Speaker: Thomas A. Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management.

Navigating Generative AI in Higher Education Panel with (l-r) Kyle Arnone, AFT Collective Bargaining Director, Amanda Blair, Fisher & Philips LLP, and Tony Picciano, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center.

Contingent Faculty Job Security Facilitated Session with (l-r) Theodore Curry, Michigan State University Professor Emeritus, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Mia McIver, UCLA Lecturer; UC-AFT Local 1474 former President and Benjamin Superfine, University of Illinois Chicago Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Relations.

Labor-Management Cooperation in Reversing Contingency Panel with (l-r) Melissa Sortman, Michigan State University Director of Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs, Heather Pierce, Rutgers University Adjunct Faculty Member, Carla Katz, Rutgers University, NTT Faculty Member and Kim O'Halloran, Rutgers University VP of Academic Planning & Administration.

Collective Bargaining and Library Personnel in Higher Education Panel with (l-r) Ahsan Ali, Tufts University Labor Relations Director, Kelly McElroy, United Academics of Oregon State, AAUP/AFT Local 9609, Meredith Kahn, LEO AFT-MI 6244, Campus Chair, (GLAM), Adriene Lim, University of Maryland - College Park Dean of Libraries and Consuella Askew, Rutgers University, VP for University Libraries.

Graduate Student Representation Election Outcomes Panel with (l-r) Jacob Apkarian, York College Associate Professor, Kathy Collins, Huron Consulting Group, Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona Professor and 

Nick DiGiovanni, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP.

Collective Bargaining and Museums with (l-r) Michael Loconto, Loconto ADR, Trish Jeffers, Guggenheim Museum Amanda Tobin Ripley, Ohio State Graduate Teaching Associate, Donna Gustafson, Rutgers University, Maida Rosenstein, UAW Local 2110 and Halcyone Schiller, AFSCME DC 47.

Higher Ed Vaccine Mandates in Canada and the US with (l-r) Larry Savage and Alison Braley-Rattai, Brock University.

Trustees’ Perspectives on Collective Bargaining Panel with (l-r) Paul Brown, University of Michigan Board of Regents, Todd Regis, Central Michigan University Trustee, Susan Solomon, City College of San Francisco Trustee and Kenneth Mash, APSCUF President.

Book Discussion: Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom with (l-r) Charles Toombs, CFA President, Ellen Schrecker, Professor Emerita, Yeshiva University, Helena Worthen, labor educator, retired, University of Illinois, and Jennifer Ruth, Portland State University Professor.

Resident and Fellow Unionization: State Medical Schools with (l-r) Sara Slinn, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, David Dashefsky, CIR-SEIU, Wade Baughman, University of Michigan Labor Relations, Michael Kelly, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Cindy Hamra, University of Washington School of Medicine, and Banks Evans, University of Washington Labor Relations.

National Center Volunteers and Staff (l-r) Amy Jeu, Hunter College , Kim Middleton, CUNY Central, Greg and Winnie Johnson, National Center Staff.

National Center Staff with

(l-r) Michelle Savarese, National Center Administrator and Nancy Hanks, National Center Conference Coordinator.