New President Named to National Labor College

by Mike Hall, Nov 26, 2007

Dr. William E. Scheuerman, president of the 33,000-member United University Professions (UUP) union was named new president of the National Labor College (NLC) and will join the Silver Spring, Md., campus Dec. 3.

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says Scheuerman is

…a man of scholarly achievement and union integrity and leadership. I look forward to working closely with Bill as he takes the reins of this great institution of higher learning for working people—the college of the labor movement.

Scheuerman, of Scotia, N.Y., served 14 years as president of the UUP, an AFT affiliate that represents academic and professional faculty in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. He says he is leaving the nation’s largest higher education union with “mixed emotions” but

at the same time, I look forward with great enthusiasm to tackling the many challenges facing the national labor movement, and working…to strengthen and grow organized labor by educating the next generation of unionists.

Scheuerman also served for five years as the UUP’s statewide vice president for academics. He earned his bachelor’s degree from City University of New York (CUNY) and his Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center.

The National Labor College is the nation’s only accredited college exclusively dedicated to educating union members, leaders, activists and staff. It includes a combination of online and on-campus courses and offers bachelor’s degrees in seven major areas. The college focuses on preparing union leaders through training sessions such as the leadership development program and the university accredited degree programs, and more than 1,000 union members have earned their bachelor’s degrees there since 1997 when the NLC began offering upper level degrees. The school was originally founded in 1969 as the George Meany Center for Labor Studies.

Says Dr. Patricia Greenfield, NLC vice president and provost, who is serving as acting president,

The labor movement today faces unprecedented challenges from workplace modernization to a global economy. The NLC is now ready to offer workers the knowledge and skills they need to increase their value and competitive edge on the job while strengthening them as unionists and citizens in these complex and challenging times. The NLC staff and faculty are eager to work with Bill to achieve these goals.

Scheuerman replaces Dr. Susan J. Schurman who retired in June after 10 years as National Labor College president. Schurman led the process by which the college received accreditation, completed an ambitious campus improvement program and raised the stature of labor’s college around our nation.

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