By Jane S. Gabin Despite having a Ph.D. I was unable to find full-time teaching work, so, like many of you, I took my skills elsewhere. I worked for 10 years in the admissions office of UNC-Chapel Hill and then became a college counselor at selective secondary schools in New York. At a conference I […]
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by Joseph G. Ramsey Our Contingency Task Force (CTF) spent the fall reflecting on the strong turnout and the many insights gathered from our two-part summer series on Confronting Contingency. This series drew a diverse coast-to-coast group of 300 faculty (and other higher ed allies) together for a pair of two-hour discussions this summer. Many attendees have
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by Jill Penn and Aimee Loiselle, Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education On November 1, SFNDHE, a founding partner of HELU, hosted its first solo virtual forum. Lisa Levenstein (UNC-G) organized the event, and Karma Chávez (UT-A) moderated with WVU speakers Lisa DiBartolomeo (Russian Studies, Slavic & East European Studies) and Jessica Wilkerson
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This survey was sent out by the Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas Conferences of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the United Faculty of Florida, and Texas Faculty Association. These organizations have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on tenure and academic freedom. They invited faculty from community colleges, public universities, private universities,
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) urgently seeks temporary staff through the end of December 2023 for the position of Outreach Data and Financial Coordinator. The Outreach Data and Financial Coordinator serves as the lead for the ongoing development and maintenance of our HELU database (currently HubSpot), as well as financial and technical infrastructure needed to
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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
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Recent events in Connecticut highlight the urgency of our current fight over higher education and the need to tie these issues into one offensive strategy. When a Democratic governor, in one of the wealthiest states with a budget surplus, pushes for $500-600 million in cuts to higher education over two years – we’re seeing the
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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
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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From Anne Balay, HELU Media & Communications Team Lead On January 17 and 18, 2023, I walked with striking workers on the picket line at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). These tenure-track and full-time non-tenure-track faculty workers are members of UIC United Faculty (UIC-UF). Each day, workers walked picket lines from 10am to noon,
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