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Thomas Kriger, a labor scholar and union leader, is the new vice president of academic affairs and provost of the National Labor College (NLC). Kriger succeeds Patricia Greenfield, who is stepping down Dec. 1, after five years, to return to a faculty teaching post.
From 1998–2007, Kriger served on the staff of the United University Professions (UUP), an affiliate of AFT and the National Education Association (NEA), which represents more than 30,000 faculty and staff of the State University of New York. He eventually became assistant to then-UUP President William Scheuerman, who is now president of the Labor College.
Says Scheuerman:
In Tom, we have both a labor scholar who possesses a superior understanding of labor, its history and role in our society, and an outstanding unionist who has served the labor movement for more than ten years. I also want to thank Pat Greenfield, the College’s first provost, for her years of dedication taking our academic programs to their current state of excellence.
After earning his Ph.D. in political science from the City University of New York, Kriger taught at St. Lawrence University. He also has held professorships at Providence College and the University of Northern Colorado. Kriger has authored numerous scholarly articles and professional publications and is on the editorial board of WorkingUSA and Collective Bargaining in the Academy.
Established as a training center by the AFL-CIO in 1969 to strengthen union member education and organizing skills, the NLC, located in Silver Spring, Md., is now the nation’s only accredited higher education institution devoted exclusively to educating union leaders, members and activists. The NLC became a degree-granting college in 1997.
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