The U.S. Department of Education provides vital services and support both for higher education and K-12, but its impacts aren’t always clear. Join us on April 1 to discuss what higher education loses when the Department of Education is destroyed and how we can respond collectively. We will provide details on organizing next steps. We […]
April 1 – How the Department of Education’s Destruction Impacts Higher Ed Read More »
By cutting funds to lifesaving research and medical care, the Trump administration is abandoning families who are suffering and costing taxpayers billions of dollars. These cuts are dangerous to our health, and dangerous to our economy. On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 workers across the country are standing up and demanding NO cuts to education and
April 8 – Participate in a “Kill the Cuts!” Action Read More »
From our colleagues at the Coalition for Action in Higher Education: As campus workers and citizens, educators and researchers, staff, students, and university community members, we exercise a powerful collective voice in advancing the democratic mission of our colleges and universities. It is our labor and our ideas which sustain higher education as a project
April 17 – Host an Event for the National Day of Action for Higher Education Read More »
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
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
Feb 13 – Fund Don’t Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call Read More »
Many campus workers today are demoralized, dispirited, and disempowered. And many are channeling personal disillusionment into political consciousness and transforming individual grievance into collective organizing. But how do you do that when you don’t have a union? Join HELU on Nov. 12 & 19 at 7pm ET / 6pm CT / 5pm MT / 4pm
Monday, October 28, 20248pm ET / 7pm CT / 6pm MT / 5pm PT Join higher education workers and students from across the country on Monday, October 28 on Zoom. We will rally our combined energy around a progressive vision of public higher education that works for all of us. We will channel that energy,
Oct 28 – Higher Ed Votes! (Online) Read More »
Wednesday, October 307pm ET/6pm CT/5pm MT/4pm PT Higher education labor and social justice organizing is in a historic upswing. Unfortunately, at the same time the Right is waging an unprecedented assault on institutions, workers, and students. CWA’s Public, Healthcare, and Education Workers (PHEW) office launched a research project aimed at better understanding the nature and
October 30 – Report Release: Union Members Address Rightwing Threat on Campus (Online) Read More »
Tuesday, October 298pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PTOnline via Zoom Colleges closing. Departments and courses eliminated. Austerity driving debt and debt driving austerity. Public higher education’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors. How did it get this way? How do we organize to free public higher education from the talons of debt
Michigan Higher Ed Labor Summit: Labor, Higher Ed, and the 2024 Election Student debt. Job insecurity. Downsizing. Outsourcing. Management bloat. Want to fix what’s broken with our higher education system? Join local and national labor leaders and rank-and-file workers in a discussion about how we fight for public higher education system that works for all of