Future of Higher Ed Town Hall: Labor, Higher Ed, and the 2024 Election October 17, 2024, 6-8pmCommunity College of Philadelphia AuditoriumBonnell Building 1st FloorEnter on 17th Street Join Higher Ed Labor United (HELU) member unions, the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO, AAUP national president Todd Wolfson, HELU Vice Chair and UAW 4121 President Levin Kim, and local higher […]
A teach-in on the financial, moral, and educational obligations of a shuttered university June 10, 20245pm ET/4pm CT/3pm MT/2pm PT During this teach-in members of Debt Collective and authors of Lend and Rule will examine the debt realities of University of the Arts (Philadelphia), and engage in dialogue with participants about what the university owes, or doesn’t,
June 10: What does University of the Arts Owe and to Whom? Read More »
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 5pm ET/4pm CT/3pm MT/2pm PT Join adjunct, contingent, and part-time faculty leaders from Massachusetts and across the country as we share and explore contract language related to contingent, adjunct, and part-time faculty contracts, and the strategies that are needed to win the contract improvements we need. This is an opportunity to
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[New Brunswick, May 15, 2024] – Higher Education Labor United (HELU) is pleased to announce its Founding Convention, scheduled to take place at the Labor Education Center at Rutgers University and online May 17-19. The Convention will bring together educators, staff, students, and organizers from across higher education labor to address pressing issues facing workers
Thursday, March 28, 20247pm ET/6pm CT/5pm MT/4pm PTVirtual Forum on Zoom – Register here Please join us for a discussion with experts tracking the methods and impact of these firms and possible tactics to oppose them. Lisa Levenstein (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) will facilitate a conversation with: Part of #LaborSpring Co-sponsored by: Register here.
AAUP-Penn is working together with many higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, HELU members, and student organizations across the country to plan a National Day of Action for Higher Education that will take place on April 17. The aim is not just to beat back the current attacks on academic freedom and on campus protests, DEI bans, and devastating budget
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We invite activists and teacher-scholars to a 2-part virtual discussion about the new book Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (2024). Register here. Session 1: Thursday, February 15, 2024, 7:30-9pm ET/6:30-8pm CT/5:30-7pm MT/4:30-6pm PT Session II: Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:30-9pm ET/6:30-8pm CT/5:30-7pm MT/4:30-6pm PT Each session will include an
Monday, January 22, 2024 at 4pm ET/3pm CT/2pm MT/1pm PT Panelists will discuss the events of November 2022, when 48,000 graduate workers, postdocs, and academic researchers went on strike at the University of California. This was the largest strike to-date in higher education. While the outcomes of the strike are well-documented, less is known about
Event – UC on Strike: Preserving Negotiation and Strike Success in Higher Education Read More »
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
Colleges and universities are under attack. HELU is going on the offensive – join us. Read More »
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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