The AFT Faculty and College Excellence (FACE) Campaign provides AFT locals and all concerned with the academic staffing crisis with an excellent opportunity to educate our members about that situation, to demonstrate the effectiveness of political activity to address our concerns, and to mobilize members and activists, thereby increasing solidarity among our constituencies. 

AFT and our state federations are prepared to assist locals and other activists in organizing campus activities to achieve these objectives. If you are ready to start an event, make sure you let us know when it is so that we can help you put the event together and help promote your work to a wider audience.

Here are a few examples of campus-based activities you might consider:

FACE Hearings
Hold a hearing on your campus about the current academic staffing trends at your institution. Invite both full-time and part-time faculty to speak about the impact of those trends for faculty and for students, and how the goals of FACE could be used to correct that situation. Try to get an administrator and/or a legislator to respond to the current staffing situation at your institution and to the goals of FACE. You can hold a hearing regardless of whether your state is currently considering FACE legislation and whether or not your local is in bargaining. These are educational hearings to raise the substantive issues that FACE addresses.

For a more detailed set of guidelines for putting together a FACE hearing on campus, go here.

Resolutions and Petitions
Building support on campus for the ideas behind FACE is critical to gaining traction for the campaign with legislators and the community. To that end, we hope that local unions, faculty senates, individuals and institutions will show their support for the FACE campaign by passing a FACE declaration or resolution, or by circulating a statement of support as a petition.

Here is a detailed declaration that can be easily adapted to fit your campus situation or turned into petition to circulate.

Letters to the Editor and Guest Editorials
An effective way of promoting FACE on campus is to submit a letter or guest editorial to your local and campus newspapers. 

For sample letters and a whole set of materials to help you out with your event, jump over to the Talking About FACE page.

If you have other ideas, please share them with us so we can share them with others and so we can assist you in any way we can in putting together your event.