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October 30 – Report Release: Union Members Address Rightwing Threat on Campus (Online)

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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 […]

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Oct 29 – Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Higher Education (Online)

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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

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Oct 22 – Michigan Higher Ed Labor Summit: Labor, Higher Ed, and the 2024 Election (Ypsilanti, MI)

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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

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Oct 17 – Future of Higher Ed Town Hall: Labor, Higher Ed, and the 2024 Election (Philadelphia, PA)

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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

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June 10: What does University of the Arts Owe and to Whom?

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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,

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June 11: Contingency Contract Language Exchange and Strategy Session

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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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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) to Host Founding Convention at Rutgers University May 17-19, 2024

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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

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March 28 – The Big Con in Higher Ed: How Consulting Firms Are Transforming the University and How to Fight Back

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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.

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National Day of Action for Higher Ed: Get Involved

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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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Contingent Faculty & the Fight to Remake Higher Education: a 2-Part Reading & Action Series (virtual)

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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

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