National Labor College

National Labor College
National Labor College
Established 1969
Type Private coeducational labor college
President Paula Peinovich, PhD
Academic staff 15 full time
Undergraduates 983 (includes all students)
Location Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Campus Suburban, 47 acres
Affiliations AFL-CIO
Website nlc.edu

Established as a training center by the AFL-CIO in 1969 to strengthen union member education and organizing skills, the National Labor College is the nation’s only accredited higher education institution devoted exclusively to educating union members, leaders and staff. The NLC became a degree-granting college in 1997 and in March 2004 gained accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

With a 47-acre (190,000 m2) campus located in Silver Spring, Maryland, a new 72,000-square-foot (6,700 m2) state- of-the-art academic and conference center, and hotel quality residence halls, the College is well equipped to provide the classroom, meeting spaces and superb dining services, which have become its trademark. And the College has been the venue for an increasing number of national and international conferences on organizing, labor rights, civil rights, health care and pension benefits among other areas.

The NLC is also the home of the ”National Workers Memorial” erected on campus to honor the memory of workers killed or fatally injured on the job, or in service to the labor movement.

Since its founding, more than 200,000 union officers and members have taken one or more of our union skills courses and over 1,100 BA degrees in labor studies have been granted. Recipients include international union presidents and officers, local union officials and stewards and workers from virtually every national and international union.[1]

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History

The Workers' Education Bureau of America originally existed as an independent organization to promote labor colleges and other worker trainings. The organization later became part of the AFL as the Education Department. In turn, the George Meany Center for Labor Studies replaced the Education Department in 1969, with an undergraduate program initially sponsored in conjunction with Antioch College.

On November 6, 1974, AFL-CIO President George Meany dedicated the current facility located on the former campus of Xaverian College. The property was purchased from the Xaverian Brothers by the AFL-CIO for $2.5 million in 1971. At the dedication, Mr. Meany remarked that the purpose of the institution was to help union officials "make a better contribution to our people and to our nation."[2] The program became an independent undergraduate institution and was named the National Labor College in 1999, and by 2004 had become fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Meany Center officially renamed the National Labor College (George Meany Campus).

In the fall of 2006 the new Lane Kirkland Center opened on the National Labor College campus, to provide upgraded facilities expected of a 21st century university, and to greatly expand the College's hosting capabilities. The College hopes to promote the Kirkland Center as "America's union hall". In keeping with that desire, since the split in the AFL-CIO in 2005, the College has made known its intention to continue to serve all sections of the American labor movement, and to implement policies to ensure that it does.

The National Labor College published Labor's Heritage, a scholarly journal of labor history, until 2002.

Programs

The undergraduate programs of the National Labor College are designed to serve as finishing programs, primarily for those who have already had two years or more of college, or the equivalent of an Associate's degree.

The Bachelor of Arts in Labor Studies programs are conducted in partnership with many individual unions, many of which – particularly in the building trades – have their own apprenticeship programs which are recognized as conferring the equivalent of an Associate's degree. The National Labor College is also home to several HAZMAT and related training programs sponsored by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

The National Labor College also offers three completely online degree programs: a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, a Bachelor of Arts in Construction Management, and a Bachelor of Science in Emergency Readiness and Response Management. These three programs are offered through the National Labor College's School of Professional Studies.

George Meany Memorial Archives

The National Labor College is also home to the George Meany Memorial Archives, the official and acting archives of the AFL-CIO, established in 1987 and also housing the AFL-CIO Library since 1993. The Archives include the papers of numerous labor leaders, the official records of all AFL-CIO proceedings since the founding of the AFL in the 1880s, the archives of numerous union and federation publications, and the records of the various departments of the AFL-CIO. The Meany Archives have been especially indispensable to scholars of the Cold War, as it contains voluminous correspondence relating to past AFL-CIO international activities which remain classified by most national governments.

References

  1. ^ http://www.nlc.edu/about/who-we-are
  2. ^ "AFL-CIO Labor Study Center Dedicated in Silver Spring," by J.Y. Smith, The Washington Post, Nov 7, 1974, pg. C14.

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