Tracy Berger

From our colleagues at the Texas Conference of the AAUP: Academic workers, please consider signing this statement in support of Texas Tech assistant professor Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, who has been targeted, doxxed, and slandered due to his pro-Palestine commitment and online speech. We believe that regardless of their own political positions all scholars should be […]

From our friends at UCW Arizona: Sign UCW Arizona’s petition to Governor Hobbs, asking her to veto several bills that would severely diminish free speech and dissolve shared governance at Arizona’s public universities. Shared governance is the democratic process in which educators, staff, and students, jointly decide the academic activities of the university. Academic freedom is the right of educators

Portland State University administration has announced the decision to eliminate the Intensive English Language Program (IELP), terminating the positions of 12 PSU-AAUP represented employees as of July 1st. Our colleagues at PSU-AAUP have asked for solidarity from HELU member organizations. Please participate in these two letter writing campaigns:

Tabassum Tamanna, a graduate student-employee in the Pathobiology program at Brown University, was sexually harassed and assaulted by another University employee while working in the Robert W. Sobol laboratory at Brown. Brown’s Title IX office delayed her case for nine months before ultimately dismissing it, only because the University declined to re-hire her assailant. Now,

In early February, many employees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill had a double parking deduction from their paychecks due to university error. Many of these employees are in the lower pay bands at the university, and this error deeply affects their ability to pay their bills and survive to the beginning of the month. Additionally,

SUNY is pursuing a plan that will ultimately close SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Hospital (SUNY Downstate Hospital). This plan is poor public policy, which will reduce health care in Brooklyn, undermine the hospital’s central mission, and harm the Brooklyn communities it serves. Downstate was NYS’s sole COVID-only hospital during the pandemic. Sadly, the key