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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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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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