announcing  the continuation of the annual... TDC/Workplace Awards to Graduate Employees and upcoming Workplace 4.2 Issue   sponsored by  Teachers for a Democratic Culture    http://www.tdc2000.org/home.html and 1. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor    http://www.workplace-gsc.com/    Including one $500 cash award to an individual and up to two smaller awards    to individuals or groups, plus additional recognition for nominated    individuals and groups with distinguished records of service to the    profession, primarily in connection with issues of the academic workplace,    and especially in relation to the work of a graduate employee organization    (GEO) or graduate-employee union (GEU).    Nomination deadline: March 15, 2002    Last year, recognition for distinguished service was made to nine    individuals and groups, and three cash awards were made: to James Thompson    of Graduate Assistants United/NEA(University of Florida); Kitty Krupat,    Graduate Students Organizing Committee/UAW Local 2110(New York University),    and Ken Lang, Graduate Student Employee Action Coalition/UAW, (University of    Washington).    To nominate an individual or an organization, send an email of about 500 to    1500 words to Nicole Meyenberg at nicolem@temple.edu . Self-nomination is    permitted. The $500 cash award is reserved for an individual, but both    individuals and groups are eligible to receive recognition and other cash    awards. Include the following information for both the nominator and    nominee: name, academic rank and/or employment status, telephone, email,    institution, department, and graduate employee organization. Read more about    last year's award at:    http://www.louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue7/issue7frontpage.html    Where possible, all nominees will be profiled in the May-June 2002 issue of    Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (http://www.workplace-gsc.com/).    Representatives of the TDC/Workplace award committee will present the awards    at the Summer 2002 Conference of Graduate-Employee Unions    (http://www.cgeu.org ).    _______________________________________________________________        2. Look for Workplace 4.2 in January 2002  Special Topic:  Education for    Democracy -- Fighting the    Corporate Takeover    Contents will include:    Interview with Cary Nelson by Marc Bousquet * Essay by Joel Westheimer    (tenure denied by NYU after testifying before the NLRB) * Reports on Campus    Equity Week (thousands attended rallies and actions on more than 70 campuses    nationwide) * Modes of Organizing: an interview with filmmaker Barbara Wolf    by Chris Carter    Special topic cluster, edited by David Brodsky, Pat Brodsky, and Ali Zaidi:    "Introduction: Democracy against Corporatism in Education," by David Brodsky    * "Potential Consequences of International Trade Agreements for Higher    Education," by Franklin W. Neff * . "The Political Economy of American    Science," by Alex Dajkovic * "Education not Incarceration," by Michael    McCormack * "Some Comments on Militarism and Miseducation," by Emiliano    Huet-Vaughn * "Higher Education and the Corporate Paradigm: the Students are    the Losers," by Zuleyma Tang-Martinez  * "Shrunken Heads: The Humanities    under the Corporate Model," by Patricia P. Brodsky  *    "The Morale of    Faculty, Students, and Staff under a Corporate Model: The Case of the    University of Kansas," by Raymond Pierotti * "Reallocation" at the    University of Kansas School of Medicine: a Pathological Case History," by    Fred Whitehead  * "Building a Foundation for Academic Excellence: Towards a    Blueprint for the Professional Treatment of Disempowered Faculty," by    Stephen Dilks * "Homogenizing the Curriculum: Manufacturing the Standardized    Student," by Beth Huber *  "Titles, Terms, and Meaning: The Exploitation of    Part-Time Faculty and What One Group is Doing About It," by Mindy Fiala and    Katie Kline * "The Struggle for Faculty Governance: its Ethical, Social, and    Pedagogical Significance," by Stuart A. McAninch * "Democratic vs. Corporate    Governance," by David Brodsky *  "Places of Change: Colleges, Communities,    and the Logic of Struggle," by Corey Dolgon * "Learning and Labor," by    William Vaughn  * "The Saga of the Neptune Jade: Free Speech at Laney    College," by Ellen Starbird    _____________________________________________________________    3. The special topic cluster of Workplace 4.1 ("Composition as Management    Science"), much expanded (with new essays by Randy Martin, Paul Lauter,    Robin Goodman, Gary Rhoades, Donald Lazere,  Jennifer Trainor and Amanda    Godley, Richard Miller, Chris Ferry, Ray Watkins, Marc Bousquet, among    others, is under advance contract with a university press and should be    available in book form in early spring 2003. Details should be up at    Workplace Breaking news in a few weeks.