2008

February Research Vital to MCCC Mission DCE Negotiation Process Begins SAC: Stand Up for Public Higher Education Massachusetts Public Employee Labor Relations - A Work in Progress Know Your Day Contract President's Message: The Costs of Inaction Are Too High Grievance Report Speaks to Conflct Between Unit Members and Colleges Letter to the Editor: A Different Model 11th Annual Massachusetts Community College Conference on Teaching and Learning Director's Notes

March MCCC Converges on Mass Bay Annual MCCC Delegate Assembly The Candidates Present Themselves Joseph LeBlanc Gail Guarino SAC: The Optional Retirement Plan: What's the Fuss? Bowing Out, Phyllis Barrett President's Message: Seeking the 'Happiest Conversation' Candidate Statements, continued Diana McGee Phil Mahler MCCC Mission Statement Update Web Site Updated Letter to the Editor: the 75th percentile Know Your Day Contract DCE Negotiating Team - picture Director's Notes

April Geri Curley Celebrated at Bunker Hill (picture) Three Union Leaders Honored  SAC: Springtime Promise and Praise  NEA Higher Education Conference Builds Bridges  NEA Emerging Leaders Academy graduates  Write Us  President's Message: It's time to Empty a Bit More of Our Purse into Our Heads  Opinion: The Virtues of Activism  MCCC Members at BHE Higher Education Dinner (picture)  DCE Bargining Team Ready to Negotiate  Adjunct Faculty are Entitled to Unemployment Compensation  Help Your PAC Help You  Know Your Day Contract  Director's Notes

May 2008 Delegate Assembly SAC: Income Tax Repeal - Myth and Reality Geri Curley and Susan Dole Honored - Picture Phyllis Barrett Honored - Picture President's Message: Levels of State Support Reminiscences of a Career in the Community College System - Harry Bowen Joe O'Neill Honored with Jon Butler Award - Picture Part-time/Adjunct At-Large Directors MCCC Committees Day Negotiating Team Remembering the 1990 Bristol DCE Strike

Summer DCE Bargaining Team Summer Hiatus 'Reign of Terror' at MassBay? Reprinted from Inside Higher Ed SAC: Celebrating the Fourh with The NEA NEA 146th Annual Meeting - Pictures Know Your Day Contract President's Message: Harnessing The Power of Our Collective Wisdom Your Newsletter - Presenting All Sides of the Critical Issues Your PAC Needs Your Help Roxbury Adjuncts Meet - Picture MCCC Vacancies - Committee Opportunities Phil Kennedy Departs MCCC MCCC Meetings Calendar 2008 - 2009

September Chairman Clark at Williamstown Defeating Question 1: MTA's First Priority Higher Ed Contracts Stalled SAC: The Autumnal Equinox: Not Yet Harvest Time New Full-time Faculty Retirement Options Guest Editorial: The Promise of A Free Education Scenes from Williamstown (pictures): 1. Art Pippo, MTA Director of Higher Education, and Donna Sirutis, MTA Consultant  2.  MTA Executive Director David Borer with MCCC Vice President Donnie McGee and President Joe Leblanc Know Your Day Contract DCE News: Know Your DCE Contract MCCC Fall Conference Oct. 6 Picture: Jim Rice of Quinsigamond Community College consults with Claudine Barnes of Cape Cod and Andria Schwortz of Quinsigamond at the NEA Representative Assembly. In Memoriam - Geraldine M. "Geri" Curley

October Fall Conference: Taxing and Awards Vote No on Question 1 SAC: Vote: Stand Up for College, Country, and Community Susan B. Anthony aka Diana Yohe (picture) Noah Berger of the Massachusetts Budtet and Policy Center (picture) During Tough Times, Any Budget Cut is Excessive Winners of $100 MTAB Prizes (picture) Ed McCourt and Kevin Caira talk retirement (picture) Your PAC Needs You Know Your Day Contract MCCC Adjunct Members Attend COCAL Conference At-Large Directors Join DCE Board New Office Employee: Angela Perno

November DCE Negotiations Heat Up MCCC Members Help Defeat Question 1 Victory, Unity, and the Road Ahead Letters Call for Nominations Students Deserve Transfer system that Works for Everyone 2009 MCCC Elections Know Your Day Contract Community College System Named in Honor of Gov. Foster Furcolo Day Negotiating Team Appointed Your PAC Needs Your Help

December MCCC Legislative Intern Earns Promotion Proposed Bylaw Change Notice MCCC Board Briefed on a Bleak Future Vice President/SAC: And Promises to Keep Professor Gillies Goes to Washington Know Your Day Contract President: It's Time to ‘Reverse the Course’ Editor: The Hope of Audacity Changes at the Board of Higher Education Picture: Donna Johnson, Chair, HELC Call for Nominations for Lemieux and Butler Awards 2009 MCCC Elections