Scheuerman re-elected UUP President

Union delegates also elect other officers, board members

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Scheuerman re-elected UUP President

Union delegates also elect other officers, board members

ALBANY, NY -- (04/224/2007; 1311)(readMedia) -- Representatives to United University Professions 2007 Spring Delegate Assembly have re-elected United University Professions President William E. Scheuerman to an eighth, two-year term in office, after an uncontested election. Scheuerman, of Scotia, New York, is on leave from SUNY Oswego, where he serves as a professor of political science.

The nearly 300 delegates meeting in Albany April 20th and 21st also re-elected two other statewide officers to two-year terms.

Eileen Landy, an associate professor of sociology at SUNY College of Old Westbury, was re-elected to a fourth term as UUP's statewide secretary. Edward Quinn, assistant to the chair of Theatre Arts at Stony Brook University, was re-elected to a third term as UUP's Membership Development Officer.

The following four members were re-elected to two-year terms on UUP's Executive Board:

Weston Kennison, a part-time lecturer in English at SUNY Geneseo;

F. Glenn McNitt, an associate professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz;

Michael Smiles, a biology professor at Farmingdale State; and

Darryl Wood, House Operations Director at the Anderson Center for the Arts at Binghamton University.

The following four members were newly elected to two-year terms on UUP's Executive Board:

Caroline Bailey, a senior staff assistant in landscape architecture at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse;

Edison Bond, a senior staff associate in patient advocacy at the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn;

Laura Rhoads, an associate professor of biology at SUNY Potsdam; and

Ezra Zubrow, a professor of anthropology and geography at the University at Buffalo.

Photos of the officers and Executive Board are available upon request.

UUP is the nation's largest higher-education union. It represents 32,000 academic and professional faculty on 29 New York state-operated campuses, and is affiliated with New York State United Teachers, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and the AFL-CIO.

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