From our colleagues at Art Institute of Chicago Workers United (AICWU): The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has increasingly relied on the underpaid, under-recognized labor of Non-Tenure-Track (NTT) faculty to educate future artists, architects, designers, scholars, and historians. We’ve watched as inflation has devoured our paychecks, while tuition has risen; currently, more […]
“The actions across the country on 2/19 are just the beginning of the fight,” wrote Higher Education Labor United, a national organization founded in 2021 to unite workers throughout U.S. higher education, on its website. Continue reading at Global Times.
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Ray told me that as far as organized resistance within universities, groups like the American Association of University Professors and PEN were already engaged in pushing back on Trump’s orders, with AAUP releasing a statement called “Against Anticipatory Obedience” in January and joining a legal challenge to one of the DEI orders. But as compared to the hospital setting,
New Republic: Some Institutions Caved to Trump. Their Employees Are Fighting Back. Read More »
At more than a dozen events across the country Wednesday, workers and faculty at colleges and universities gathered to speak out against what they see as an attack on federal research funding, lifesaving medical research and education. Continue reading at Inside Higher Ed.
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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
From our colleagues at United Campus Workers Kentucky and Kentuckians for Higher Education: As you may know, House Bill 4, an anti-DEI bill, was filed in the Kentucky state legislature this week. If passed, HB 4 would put university jobs at risk, threaten crucial university funding, and close DEI offices, programs, and resource centers! Kentuckians for Higher Education and
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Back in 2020, higher education faced multiple challenges—including student debt, administrative bloat, and the spread of contingency (also known as adjunct labor) in faculty hiring. Five years later, the challenges facing higher education are as significant but different. They include a spate of police actions on campuses, anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits, weaponization of accreditation, and political tests for everything from curriculum
Non-Profit Quarterly: Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good? Read More »
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
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In a move that will devastate student recruitment, retention, learning, and success, Sonoma State management announced deep cuts to faculty, staff, and instructional and support programs. This decimation of a CSU Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) is unconscionable and immoral in every way one might imagine it, especially in a CSU system with billions of dollars in
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From Mia McIver, HELU Chair, UC-AFT Local 1474 Dear HELU Members and Friends, As higher ed workers, many of us are experiencing mounting attacks on our scientific research, humanistic inquiry, and politico-socio-cultural analysis, not to mention our very personhood. The premises of our common educational project–knowledge, expertise, teaching, and learning–are targets of suspicion, while our
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