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Steve Mockabee (faculty) and Deborah Herman (union staff) from the University of Cincinnati, examined the public’s perception of university professors and analyzed different approaches to public messaging. In another workshop, former AAUP President Cary Nelson and intellectual property expert Gerald Barnett surveyed the landscape of IP policies and gave attendees tools to improve those policies. “It was difficult to choose which sessions to attend, of course, because I wanted to attend all of them” said Caprice Lawless, an AAUP member from the Front Range Community College chapter. “I chose to attend a broad spectrum of sessions to become aware of issues, to learn the vocabulary and to hear what experts had to share with one another on each topic.”
Besides exploring the nearby University district and downtown Seattle, the institute’s attendees spent time building new friendships, watching a Mariners baseball game, and enjoying a boat cruise to nearby Tillicum Village.
The Summer Institute also featured open discussion panels on contingent faculty issues and the student debt crisis. These sessions created discussion on these timely subjects and sparked networking opportunities for academic activists from all across the country. "You make a lot of connections at Summer Institute, which helps you understand the national picture and brainstorm new ideas to bring to your campus," said David Kociemba, president of Emerson AFEC-AAUP.
"The AAUP Summer Institute is a great experience for members of chapters and conferences, as well as members of campus faculty senates. The recent Institute in Seattle had many of the courses that I had attended over the years that deal 
with the nuts and bolts of contracts & negotiations, and financial analysis of campus institutions. My colleagues and I really enjoyed the sessions on intellectual property, faculty handbooks and the session on new chapter organizing. I really loved the session on utilizing mass creative action as a means of advocating for legislation for better access and affordability to healthcare for faculty and staff. And most of all, it was great to come together with our colleagues across the nation to not only compare strategies for advocating for our students and colleagues, but also to celebrate the profession as a public good."
— Angela M. Brommel, Nevada State College
See Martin Snyder's PowerPoint presentation for Workshop 3E Online Education.
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