Columbia College Faculty Union (CFAC IFT/AFT Local 6602) at Columbia College Chicago is in the midst of the longest adjunct strike in US history. CFAC is a scrappy union that started nearly 25 years ago and was the first private-sector adjunct union in the Chicago area (and one of the first nationally). CFAC has generated […]
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By Jane S. Gabin Despite having a Ph.D. I was unable to find full-time teaching work, so, like many of you, I took my skills elsewhere. I worked for 10 years in the admissions office of UNC-Chapel Hill and then became a college counselor at selective secondary schools in New York. At a conference I
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by Joseph G. Ramsey Our Contingency Task Force (CTF) spent the fall reflecting on the strong turnout and the many insights gathered from our two-part summer series on Confronting Contingency. This series drew a diverse coast-to-coast group of 300 faculty (and other higher ed allies) together for a pair of two-hour discussions this summer. Many attendees have
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by Jill Penn and Aimee Loiselle, Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education On November 1, SFNDHE, a founding partner of HELU, hosted its first solo virtual forum. Lisa Levenstein (UNC-G) organized the event, and Karma Chávez (UT-A) moderated with WVU speakers Lisa DiBartolomeo (Russian Studies, Slavic & East European Studies) and Jessica Wilkerson
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Saturday, December 2, 2023 from 1-3pm, allies and community members are invited to join the Sing Out Shout Out for #APeoplesCUNY. We will join together to SING OUT for a fair contract for the hardworking faculty and staff of CUNY, and we will SHOUT OUT for full funding from our Governor in her upcoming budget
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This survey was sent out by the Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas Conferences of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the United Faculty of Florida, and Texas Faculty Association. These organizations have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on tenure and academic freedom. They invited faculty from community colleges, public universities, private universities,
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“PDA is proud to be a founding member of a coalition convened by Higher Education Labor United (HELU) that is calling for exactly that. Free, or almost free, higher public education was the norm across America only a few decades ago—and it was central to the unprecedented wealth and growth of American society in the
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Colleges and universities are under attack. HELU is going on the offensive – join us. In the past few days, disastrous Supreme Court decisions struck down affirmative action and overturned Biden’s partial student debt cancelation program. This confirms once again: we need a fighting movement to rebuild U.S. higher education. From the Supreme Court to
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Strategies to Abolish Faculty Contingency Tuesday, June 20 @ 4pm PT/5pm MT/6pm CT/7pm ET on Zoom Register to attend More than 75% of faculty in higher ed are contingent. As organizers at Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), we refuse to accept the unjust systems of worker exploitation embedded in our higher ed institutions, and we
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We call on HELU member unions and all allies of higher education workers to support striking UW workers. Please donate to the UAW #4121 strike fund, join the pickets if you are in or near the Seattle area, and publicly share messages of support.
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