from Alyssa Picard at AFT Higher Education The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program is a free federal program available to public service workers, including adjunct and contingent faculty. This program allows educators and others to have the balance of their federal student loan debt wiped away after meeting certain requirements. Through Oct. 31, 2022, […]
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On October 6, 2022, the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Western Connecticut State University recommended the University eliminate all Department of Social Sciences majors and eight of the department’s eleven minors. This would eliminate the study of Anthropology, Economics, Geography, and Sociology as well as threaten Political Science. The elimination of Social
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From Save Ohio Higher Ed (SOHE): SOHE’s 10th forum is aimed at precarious academic workers in Ohio — most of whom, by state law, do not have collective bargaining rights. It should also be useful for anyone interested in mounting effective issue campaigns and in building collective power across different types of workers. On Zoom: Organize!
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Protecting freedom of expression is vital, but it is useless to divorce disputes about the content of research and teaching from the attacks on the very structures of higher education that house, fund, and govern it. Supporters of free speech must work with and learn from labor organizers, debt resisters, community organizers, advocates for racial
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The faculty of Berklee College of Music are bargaining with administration for a contract to replace the current agreement. To continue to provide Berklee students with a world-class education and first-rate professional training, they are asking administration to invest in faculty in the following ways: pay commensurate with professional achievements, elevated living costs, and impact
Clark University grad workers (with CUGWU, or Clark University Graduate Workers United) are on strike. This page links to more information on the strike, why it’s happening, and how you can support ClarkU grad workers. How can you help? Amplify their messages on social media and donate to the CUGWU Mutual Aid Strike Fund. If
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At the September 29, 2022 HELU general assembly meeting, the Interim Steering Committee and present HELU members voted to call for applications for an outreach coordinator. This individual will coordinate HELU’s launch as a nonprofit organization and the campaign to onboard endorsing local unions and organizations as HELU member organizations. This position is stipended at
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by Helena Worthen & Tracy Berger Higher education institutions are vast, interactive, labor-intensive systems. A problem in one part can harm or shut down the rest. “There is not enough staff to make things run” is a warning that a whole institution, students and faculty included, could falter. Understaffing is a strategy, not just one
The Chair of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Dean of UCLA Humanities decided to reduce the most popular and impactful language courses––cutting 26 sections of Spanish for second and heritage language learners, impacting 650 students every year. As a result, the university will lose two FirstGen US Latinx faculty—a Latina and gay
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The UMassD graduate student experience has gotten worse every single year: school fees continue to increase; pay is not even adjusted for yearly inflation; and employee workloads have expanded way beyond contract hours. We are not asking for much. We need healthy food to eat, and a safe place to sleep. Yes, we knowingly chose
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