Labor & Employment Law

Peinovich Named President of National Labor College

By Mike Hall

Dr. Paula Peinovich has been appointed president of the National Labor College (NLC). She has served as interim president since January and will serve a three-year-term as head of the nation?s only fully accredited institution devoted to educating working families and labor activists.

Peinovich holds a Ph.D. in higher education policy from the University of Pennsylvania and has devoted her career to increasing access for underserved learners. Says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka:

Dr. Peinovich?s outstanding track record as a teacher, scholar and administrator makes her uniquely qualified to lead the only institution of higher education in America that is solely devoted to the needs of working people and their unions.

Peinovich has served as both provost and president of Walden University, a distance education graduate university based in Minneapolis. She is the former president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education. Previously, she spent more than a decade as vice president of academic affairs at Excelsior College, another online institution based in Albany, N.Y. A former college English instructor and AFT local union officer, Peinovich says:

As someone with a passion for lifelong learning, I?ve found a true home at the National Labor College. The faculty and staff here are outstanding, and it is a rare privilege to work with our student body, who come to the NLC from all walks of life and from all corners of the U.S. and Canada to pursue their dreams.

Peinovich says the NLC has a wide and accessible range of programs to meet “adult learners on their own terms.?

With our new green workplace representative program, flexible degree programs offered through a distance learning model, union skills continuing education classes and certificate programs, the Labor College is extremely well-positioned to offer our student body of adult learners a wide range of educational choices for the future.

She succeeds William Scheuerman, who retired earlier this year after serving as NLC president since February 2008.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).