Faculty-student pairs set up “anti-fascist office hours” at three locations on the Northwestern University campus.
Faculty, students, and staff created anti-fascist art at the University of Hawaii.
American Association of University Professors members combined membership drives with tabling about the critical issues facing higher education on 30 campuses.
And in New York City, 4,000 people rallied to defend higher education from Trump’s attacks, chanting, “ICE took our students, we want them back!”
These were a few of the 170 events on campuses across the country April 17 in the second annual Coalition for Action in Higher Education day of action, organized under the banner of “Free Higher Education.”
That meant not only fully funded and free to students, but also free of “political interference that reduces the rights and autonomy of campus workers and students to teach, study, learn, speak, and dissent.”
The coalition includes the AAUP, Higher Education Labor United, the Debt Collective, Faculty for Justice in Palestine, and AFT-Oregon, among other organizations.
