Ken Davis is joined by Ted Cox, DNA-Info Chicago and Sarah Karp, Catalyst Chicago. They discuss the UIC faculty strike, city unions allying to oppose pension cuts and Chicago Public Schools revised discipline policy. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network TV.
Topics: UIC faculty strike, pension cuts, Chicago Public Schools
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Shaping San Francisco
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An event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco State Strike. A discussion will be initiated by leaders and participants of the Strike, as well as an artist who graduated from San Francisco State in Raza Studies and now teaches at State. U.C. Berkeley Professor Waldo E. Martin will moderate the discussion which will touch on what sparked the Strike, how it happened, and the impact it had and continues to have on San Francisco, California, and the country at large.
Topics: student movement, 1968, strike, faculty strike, S.I. Hayakawa, La Raza Studies, Third World...
The student/faculty strike at S.F. State College in 1968-69 was a seminal event, ushering in ethnic studies in higher education, contributing energy and activists to dozens of San Francisco political movements and much more. Learn about it from original participants: Roger Alvarado, Margaret Leahy, John Levin.
Topics: Student strike, faculty strike, police violence, Ronald Reagan, S.I. Hayakawa, Black Student Union,...
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Linda Vollkommer-Lynch was the first tenured female faculty and first female athletics coach at Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens) in Hoboken, NJ. She was appointed the women's fencing coach at Stevens in 1974, starting off as part-time for the first two years. Fencing was the first women's sports team at Stevens. In this oral history clip, she reminisces about growing up in Hoboken, how she became interested in fencing, becoming the first tenured female faculty, participating in a...
Topics: Women's History, Fencing, Fencing History, Stevens Institute of Technology, Faculty Strike
