2010 AAUP State Conference:

with

Bill Nations

Oklahoma State Representative, District 44

 and

Pat Shaw

Associate Secretary, Department of Organizing & Services

AAUP National Office, Washington, D.C.

 27 March 2010
Gaylord Hall, Room 3160 • University of Oklahoma

The Oklahoma AAUP’s efforts focus primarily on faculty issues in higher education. However, due to the continuing cuts in and the concerns about institutional budgets all over the state, this year’s conference will consist of an informal panel discussion on the economic concerns that all of us have at all levels of Oklahoma’s higher education system. State Representative Bill Nations will provide his legislative insights on how Oklahoma’s House of Representatives will continue to manage Oklahoma’s higher education budgets. Pat Shaw, a native Oklahoman and member of the AAUP National Staff in Washington, DC, will attend to talk with us about how institutions in other parts of the country are meeting their educational goals despite constricted budgets.

Bill Nations represents Oklahoma’s district 44, which includes the University of Oklahoma campus. He is Vice Chair of the Oklahoma House of Representatives’ Higher Education and Career Tech Committee, and he is a member of the Education and Government Modernization committees. He is a graduate of Noble High School (1960), and he received his BA in History from the University of Oklahoma (1964). He received his Doctor of Dental Surgery from Baylor University in 1968. He is currently a member of many civic and national organizations, and in 2007 he was awarded a Higher Ed Lifetime Achievement Award.

Patrick B. Shaw, born and raised in Tulsa, has been a staff member in AAUP’s Department of Organizing and Services since 1992.  Shaw received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame (1967) and his law degree from Indiana University-Bloomington (1975).  After a year as an attorney with the Indianapolis office of the National Labor Relations Board and another year as General Counsel for the Indiana Conference of Teamsters, Shaw spent a dozen years in private law practice in Washington, D.C.  Much of Shaw’s work on the AAUP staff involves working with faculty to establish and develop chapters and assisting state conferences in their own chapter formation and development activities.