HELU Events

The U.S. Department of Education provides vital services and support both for higher education and K-12, but its impacts aren’t always clear. Join us on April 1 to discuss what higher education loses when the Department of Education is destroyed and how we can respond collectively. We will provide details on organizing next steps. We…

By cutting funds to lifesaving research and medical care, the Trump administration is abandoning families who are suffering and costing taxpayers billions of dollars. These cuts are dangerous to our health, and dangerous to our economy. On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 workers across the country are standing up and demanding NO cuts to education and…

From our colleagues at the Coalition for Action in Higher Education: As campus workers and citizens, educators and researchers, staff, students, and university community members, we exercise a powerful collective voice in advancing the democratic mission of our colleges and universities. It is our labor and our ideas which sustain higher education as a project…

On Tuesday, February 25, labor leaders and organizers representing hundreds of thousands of higher education and allied workers will rally in D.C. to expose how Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on research and higher education funding are decimating public health while siphoning off public resources for private gain. At the same time, hundreds of…

Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and how we are fighting back. We will hear from affected workers and map out next steps…

Many campus workers today are demoralized, dispirited, and disempowered. And many are channeling personal disillusionment into political consciousness and transforming individual grievance into collective organizing. But how do you do that when you don’t have a union? Join HELU on Nov. 12 & 19 at 7pm ET / 6pm CT / 5pm MT / 4pm…