Dear UCW Members,

Show your support to the Audiology and Speech Pathology Department by attending a Rally organized by parents and students this Friday, June 13th at 11:00. We will be meeting in the parking lot at South Stadium Hall near the Audiology Dept entrance. We need as many people as possible to attend. The greater the turn out the more we can demonstrate what impact closing this department will have on the community at large.

Due to the State’s Budget cuts to Higher Education, UT College of Arts and Sciences has proposed to close the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology. Loosing this program will have a devasating impact on our region and community Now and in the Future. This program graduates significant numbers of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists needed to serve a broad range of populations in our region. The program also provides specialized direct services to adults and children that can not be absorded by private practices. Attached is an email list of the Board of Trustees and others who can influence the fate of this program. I am encouraging you to contact them to let them know how important this program is in providing needed services to our community and providing much needed professionals to our region. A short email to this list saying how very important it is to our Community and to the University that this program not be closed would be invaluable. I encourage you to contact your state legislators to express to them how cutting funding for higher education can and does affects direct services to large numbers of individuals in the state. UT Audiology and Speech Pathology serves patients from 25 counties and has served over 2500 individuals in the last 14 months. It is my understanding that a land grant university has a mission to provide services to the community.

I am asking you to please help us with this cause. I know each and everyone of you has probably been touch by this program in someway. If you know an Audiologist or Speech Pathologist, someone with hearing loss, family member or child who has gotten a hearing aid or therapy at UT Hearing and Speech you have reason to help in someway. Our community will be impacted significantly without it.

Hope you can send an email, call your legislator and/or come to the Rally to help out.

Sincerely,
Barbara

Barbara Nicodemus M.S. CCC-A
UT Center on Deafness
Program Administrator/Consulting Audiologist
TN Dept. of Health, Newborn Hearing Program

Brothers and Sisters,

The regular meeting of the Knoxville Chapter will be at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. This meeting is open to all members and interested parties, including potential members!

We meet at the UNITE Here building, 1124 N. Broadway, Knoxville, Tennessee.

If you have questions or wish to add an item to the agenda, please contact Tom Smith (smith@ucw-cwa.org).

Dear Fellow United Campus Workers-

This Friday UCW will be hosting a fund raising party and silent auction to help support our work on behalf of faculty and staff at the University of Tennessee. Because we don’t yet have collective bargaining rights or payroll deduction, our dues are lower than what most unions use to cover operating expenses. The money we raise this Friday goes toward costs such as lobbying trips to Nashville, mailings, and sending delegates to the Communications Workers of America Annual Convention.

The party is also an opportunity to meet other UCW members and to celebrate achievements such as winning overtime pay for UT farm workers and reaching the 600 member mark. Please join us for appetizers, wine, a silent auction, and good company. All contributions–big and small–are appreciated.

Fund Raising House Party and Silent Auction on
Friday, June 6th
6:00- 8:00 p.m.

Hosted by George Hoemann and Roger Weaver
719 Luttrell St. Knoxville, TN 37917

Appetizers and Wine Will be Served
RSVP to Diana Moyer at dmoyer@gmail.com

Contributions can also be mailed to: UCW-CWA, P.O. Box 3814 Knoxville, TN 37927

Hope to see you there!

Diana Moyer