Tell Your Students: Health Care Career Showcase at John Adams, Wednesday, April 26, from 11:30am-1pm

Students and faculty from a wide range of health care programs will be on hand next Wednesday to talk to interested students about careers in the health care industry. CCSF has programs for students to find fulfilling and quality careers as EMTs, Paramedics, Phlebotomists, Pharmacy Techs, Vocational Nurses, Dental Assistants, and more. These are in-demand professions that are vital to the health of our city and state.

Be sure to let your students know about this opportunity to learn more next Wednesday at John Adams!

American Association of University Professors Forum–Responding to the Legislative Attacks on Education, Thursday, April 20, at 1pm

Our students deserve quality education that includes difficult truths and many perspectives. But politicians in some states are trying to substitute their own ideological beliefs for educational freedom, especially on topics like race and gender. Join us for a discussion of these efforts to suppress teaching and learning and how we can respond. We’ll discuss the state of this legislation, an AAUP task force on the issue, and review a new guide for campus leaders out from PEN America and the American Council on Education, Making the Case for Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy in a Challenging Political Environment.

Register & find more info here: https://www.aaup.org/event/responding-legislative-attacks-education

Speakers include:

• Derryn Moten is a professor of history and political science at Alabama State University and serves on the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. He is vice president of the Alabama AFL-CIO chapter and co-chair of the AFT Higher Education Policy and Planning Council.

• Jennifer Ruth is a professor in the School of Film at Portland State University and a member of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom. She is a contributing editor to the Academe blog and served for two years as the faculty editor of the Journal of Academic Freedom. Her most recent book, co-authored with Michael Bérubé, is It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom (2022).

• Jeremy C. Young is the senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America. In this role, he advances PEN America’s advocacy for free expression in educational institutions, advocates against censorious legislation and politically-motivated efforts to ban concepts and curricular materials, and supports academic freedom in higher education and the freedom to read, learn, and teach in K-12 schools.

• Steven Bloom is assistant vice president for government relations at the American Council on Education. His primary focus is on tax issues, endowments, health care reform, immigration and international issues, labor and employment, and so-called “divisive concepts.”

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