Labor Education Program Update

 

May 13, 2008

http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu also visit www.illinoislabored.org

 

This LEP Update includes activities for both Champaign-Urbana and Chicago sites.

 

CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago 60607

CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820

 

July 10-13, Midwest School for Women Workers. The location this year is St. Louis, Roz Sherman-Voellinger and Judy Ancel from U Missouri are hosting. Scholarships available through the Regina V. Polk Fund for Women’s Labor Leadership and the United Association for Labor Education. Email hworthen@uiuc.edu or go to the LEP website and download an application directly.

 

MOST IMPORTANT LABOR WEBSITE for Illinois:

http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/

Also see, although from reading these, you’d never understand why George Pullman had to be buried under concrete and iron bars:

http://members.aol.com/PullmanIL/

http://www.irm.org/history/pullmanlibrary.html

http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/sehsintro.htm

 

ON-LINE LABOR STUDIES CLASSES

You don’t have to be a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student to enroll in UIUC online classes. If you are a University of Illinois employee, you can take these classes for free. The cost per 3-credit class is $882.  Unionists receive a scholarship that reduces the cost to $706 per course.  For more information and course syllabi go to our website at:  http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu/.   If you’ve a question please call Steven Ashby at (312) 996-8733 or email him at skashby@uiuc.edu.

Summer Courses (8 weeks: June 9 – July 31)

LIR 100     Introduction to Labor Studies (3 credits) 

LIR 110     Labor and Social Movements (3 credits)

 

LEP IS HIRING PART-TIME INSTRUCTORS TO TEACH ONLINE COURSES

We project over 1,000 enrollments in 2008.  We hired 6 part-time instructors in spring 08 and anticipate hiring more in fall 08 and thereafter.  Our primary need is for instructors to teach compressed courses in the fall semester and spring semester.

Our immediate needs are for:

LIR 100  “Introduction to Labor Studies” (fall 08 and each semester thereafter)

LIR 110  “Labor and Social Movements” (fall 08 and each semester thereafter)

LIR 120  “Contemporary Labor Problems” (starting spring 09)

 

There may also be a need for instructors to teach semester-length courses, such as:

LIR 200   “Globalization and Workers” (we need one instructor for fall 08)

LIR 210   “U.S. Working Class and Labor History”    (starting spring 09)

LIR 320   “Gender, Race, Class, and Work” (starting fall 08)

 

Good article about the “Security and Prosperity Partnership” in Dollars and Sense, by labor educator Katherine Sciacchitano:

www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2008/0108sciacchitano.html

 

The Labor Ed program at UIUC is located at 504 East Armory, in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. The Labor Ed program in Chicago is at Suite 110 The Rice Building, 815 West Van Buren Street (near Halsted and W. Van Buren). Both locations accessible by public transportation. If you would like us to come to your organization or local union meeting, call the numbers listed above or email Illinoislabored@uiuc.edu. We can bring our Book Table to sell and talk about good labor books from the Illinois Labor History Society, books that you may not see out on the shelf in most bookstores.