The 2012 State Meeting will take place on Saturday, October 6 on the UNL City Campus. The topic will be the challenges of maintaining academic freedom and faculty governance amid budgetary limitations. The keynote speaker will be Prof. Hans-Joerg Tiede of Illinois Wesleyan University, who serves on AAUP’s national Committee A on Academic Freedom and on the Committee on College and University Governance. Other speakers include Amy Miller, ACLU Nebraska Legal Director and members of the Nebraska State Conference of AAUP.

• 9:30-10 a.m. Arrival; coffee (Regency Room, UNL Student Union)
• 10-10:50 a.m. Joerg Tiede (Illinois Wesleyan University and AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom), keynote presentation.
• 11-11:50 a.m. Mathias Schubert, UNL Faculty Senate president: Results of Senate Survey of Nontenure Track Faculty (Unity Room, Gaughan Multicultural Center)
• Noon-1 p.m. Lunch (Regency Room, Nebraska Union)
• 1:10-2 p.m. Academic Freedom Panel: David Moshman, UNL professor of educational psychology; Joe Brown, UNO professor of psychology; Amy Miller, ACLU Nebraska legal director (Heritage Room, Nebraska Union)
• 1:10-2 p.m. Intellectual Property Issues for Faculty, Paul Royster (professor UNL Libraries)
• 2:00-3:00, Executive Committee Meeting