Advocacy
Workplace Issues
CAA monitors and advocates for improved working conditions for its members, including: studio health and safety, tenure and promotion guidelines, guest-curator contract guidelines, part-time employment guidelines, and professional practices for visual-resources professionals.CAA further encourages the highest standards of creativity, scholarship, connoisseurship, and teaching in the areas of studio art, the history and criticism of the visual arts and architecture, and exhibitions; and to further these objectives in institutions of higher learning and of public service such as colleges, universities, art schools, museums, and other art organizations.
New National Project to Examine Impact of Arts Training
May 2008
The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project will examine factors that help or hinder the careers of graduates of arts high schools, arts colleges and conservatories, and arts schools and departments within universities. Click here to read more. AAUP Report on Nontenured Faculty
March 2007
In a report issued December 11, 2006, the American Association of University Professors reported that contingent faculty are increasing in number at institutions of higher education. Click here to read more. MLA Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
March 2007
On December 7, 2006, the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion released its long-awaited report. Click here to read more. Adjunct Professors Union Upheld in Court
March 2007
On November 27, 2006, a federal appeals court upheld a January 2006 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding the unionization of part-time professors at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Click here to read more. MoMA Strike Ended
September 2000
On 9 September the Professional and Administrative Staff Association (PASTA) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York came to a settlement agreement with management thereby ending the labor strike, which began on 28 April 2000. Click here to read more. Viewpoints: The Museum of Modern Art
July 2000
As part of our commitment to bringing relevant issues in the field to our membership, CAA has commissioned statements from both sides of the union strike at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The following statements do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the College Art Association. Click here to read more. 