UALE Board Meeting August 20, 2015   

Attendees: Cheryl Teare, Keturah Raabe, Kitty Conlan, Sarah Laslett, Al Davidoff, Lynda DeLoach, Amanda Pacheco          

President’s Report ………………………………………………..Cheryl Teare

• Participated in the NE women’s school in PSU. 40^th celebration of the school. One of the original women participants expressed her gratitude in English and Spanish. Classes good and well attended. Appreciated having a UALE representative there. A report will be coming out soon.

Secretary’s Report ………………………………………………..Kitty Conlan

• Approval of Minutes from last meeting: No quorum, one typo noted and corrected.

Treasurers Report ……………………………………………….Lynda DeLoach

• August report: net income in the black but 91% of projected budget trending slightly up.
• Membership is still gradually increasing but lower than budgeted for

• Website redesign: Subcommittee looking at three vendors Webtrax, Prometheus and Advomatic. All union friendly vendors; Prometheus is unionized. Will make a recommendation for the Board.

Old Business ………………

Worthen Report on status of labor in higher education.

• Report was received at last meeting; Helena has limited use of data and intends to submit an LSJ article.
• Issue is what the board should do with the report.
• Most sections are fine as is for release but Messaging portion needs to be worked on. In particular not enough to alarm for labor leaders to take action. Note that how to message findings is beyond the scope of what was requested of HW.
• Concern raised over some subtle undertones related to the environment not germane to the report purpose.
• Perhaps release pieces of the report but not complete
• Sarah L will look back and see if Section 8 and bibliography is worth releasing along with sections 1-6.
• Concern about having competing versions of a report if the LSJ article is accepted and released (which would be in March 2016)
• Sarah L will develop a draft that might be a better perspective on the messaging post. Al D will help.
• Reminder that the report is ours; we can just alert HW that we are going to develop further the messaging part
• Summarize: UALE goal is to do a release of the report and a developed tool kit by Nov 1 so that when people come to our directors meeting they can address it further at some level. Follow up at next year’s conference a more robust discussion as to the opportunities for collaboration between Labor and HE to develop programs.

Voted affirmatively by those in attendance. Kitty C will send out to rest of the Board to affirm

Legacy project:Circulated a proposal from Paula Peinovich since last meeting that includes more information pertaining to the NLCs intent to make its labor curricula available to labor friendly institutions of higher educations.  Open to comments and questions from the UALE Board. Submit questions and comments to Al D who will pass on to Paula P. Final disposition of the proposal from UALE will be determined at the next Board meeting. .                                                      

New Business………………

Plans for Mid November meetings:          

• Al and Sarah will start to develop form and substance
• Kitty will check on availability of the ATU for directors meeting; response pending
• How will curricula exchange work?
• Board members should take responsibility for running some of the sessions
• Sarah will provide some parameters as to what will be shared (email sent out 8/24/15)

Adjourn – next meetings:

September 10

October 8

Directors meeting: November 18-19

Board meeting November 20-21