About GEO at Purdue
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Mission Statement
The purpose of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) at Purdue University is to organize graduate student employees to advocate for themselves and to take action toward improving the quality of graduate life and employment.
In doing so, we pursue the following:
- To act in accordance with Purdue University policies and regulations.
- Organizing: To empower graduate employees by working diligently to improve graduate student life as it relates to our employment and related labor and/or social matters at Purdue University.
- Collective Representation and Action: To foster partnerships with graduate student organizations, Purdue administration and other relevant body in regards to terms and conditions of graduate employment.
- Education: To promote quality instruction and research at Purdue.
- Community: To offer a collegial space for underrepresented populations such as international students; LGBT students; students with federally designated minority status; students who are disabled; and whoever wishes to voice their concerns.
- Solidarity: To reach out to similar organizations residing in the Greater Lafayette area and neighboring universities to encourage dialogue beyond the boundaries of Purdue.
- Social Justice: To acknowledge that economic justice cannot be separated from the fight for social justice, civil rights, and human rights within and beyond the borders of our campus, to recognize that events beyond our campus often directly affect our working and living conditions, and to work toward the spread of unionism, solidarity, and social justice.
Constitution and Bylaws
You can read the constitution and bylaws of GEO here.
Recommended Reading
For any progessive organization it is necessary to have a rigorous intellectual foundation to support and validate its struggle. Fortunately, we don't have to do all of the work ourselves. The reading list below can help you get a pretty clear idea of where the Purdue GEO is coming from and where it hopes to go.
If you have and additional resources to suggest, we would appreciate it if you would contact us.
Books
- Bousquet, Marc. (2008). How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation.
- Nelson, Cary, ed. (1997). Social Text: The Yale Strike Dossier.
- Aronowitz, Stanley. (2001). The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning.
- Bousquet, Marc, Leo Parascondola and Tony Scott, eds. (2003) Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University.
A much more comprehesive reading list assembled by Marc Bousquet can be viewed here.
