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AFT-WV president Judy Hale was elected as a vice-president of the WV AFL-CIO during the 2009 WV AFL-CIO convention.
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(An opinion editorial as printed in the Charleston Daily Mail on Sept. 10, 2009.)
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An opinion editorial by Judy Hale, as printed in the Charleston Daily Mail, August 26, 2009.
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An analysis of the most recent 10 years of national data presents a troubling picture of disinvestment in the higher education teaching profession-notably, a reduction in the proportion of full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty, and an increased reliance on employing "contingent" faculty and instructors such as part-time faculty, full-time nontenure track faculty and graduate employees.
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Ten AFT educators were among the invited guests at the White House on March 26 when President Obama hosted a first-ever online town hall meeting on the economy. |
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Call it "Arne Duncan Unplugged," an unscripted Monday afternoon exchange at QuEST between the U.S. education secretary and AFT members on the issues that matter most to education's frontline. The July 13 session began with a drum roll: AFT members' handwritten questions for the education secretary were collected in advance and placed inside an onstage sweepstakes drum. After a few turns, AFT president Randi Weingarten reached in and selected a handful at random, and Duncan took the stage to provide some answers.
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