Over 50 years ago, Berkeley students joined with other university students and civil rights activists from around the country to promote and expand voting rights in Mississippi. “Freedom Summer” remains an iconic moment in the Civil Rights movement, the history of student activism in the U.S., and in the political engagement culture at Berkeley as […]
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Current graduate student stipends and benefits at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development are not substantial enough to alleviate the severe economic burdens imposed by the increasing costs of living in the city of Nashville. Sign the petition for fair pay at Peabody. Most Peabody PhD student workers receive $28,000 stipends. This
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Call on NY Governor Hochul to fully fund public higher education as a public good. The share of SUNY and CUNY core operating costs paid for by student tuition and fees must be significantly decreased. This must be made possible by increasing the share of public funds going to public higher education in Gov. Hochul’s
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Our union siblings at United Faculty of Florida (UFF) are asking all of us to join the fight to protect FL public higher education and academic freedom. “DeSantis and his team have made systematic efforts to dismantle the freedoms of students and faculty to teach and learn,” says UFF President Andrew Gothard. “Since 2021, DeSantis has pushed through
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Adjunct Faculty United (AFT 6106 – AdFac), a union of adjunct faculty in the North Orange County Community College District (NOCCCD), asks for solidarity in their fight for fair wages and benefits for adjunct faculty. NOCCCD has not agreed to AdFac’s proposal for healthcare. Under new state law, it would cost the district nothing to
NEEDED IMMEDIATELY Higher Education Labor United (HELU) urgently seeks temporary staff through the end of April, 2023 to support our data, technology, website, and communication capacities. We have up to 20 hours per week across these capacities. The wage rate is $40 per hour. This temporary position will end on April 30. The possibility of
Officials from the Florida Office of Policy and Budget, under Gov. Ron DeSantis, have requested information about gender-affirming care at the University of Florida and at least 11 other Florida universities. The information requested includes details on anyone who has received gender-affirming care through campus health services since 2018 and the type of care received.
Pennsylvania State University has proposed a merger of Penn State Law with the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. The merger would result in dissolving Penn State Law and threaten the existence of a law school presence in University Park to the detriment of its students. Current plans would put all of Penn State Law’s
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University of Oregon Student Workers (UOSW) began a card-signing drive for a wall-to-wall student worker union in October 2022. In multiple instances since then, managers, supervisors, and other representatives of the University of Oregon have discouraged and deterred union organizing in violation of the Oregon Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act. UOSW calls on the university
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From Seth Kahn, APSCUF member and faculty at West Chester University So far, I’ve joined the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) picket lines twice. My first day on the picket line (Thursday, February 9) was just days after management revoked tuition waivers and cut off striking workers’ health insurance without warning. My union, the
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