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September 2025 HELU Chair’s Message: Setting the direction for our fight ahead

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Levin Kim, Chair and member of UAW 4121 At our August General Assembly, HELU delegates and members discussed questions around the future of our movement to shape the direction of HELU’s work. What strategies and resources do we need for the fight ahead as an organization?  On strategy, delegates expressed interest in expanding HELU regional […]

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August 2025 HELU Chair’s Message: What would your campus look like in a world where higher ed institutions actually work for all working people? 

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Levin Kim, Chair, HELU and member, UAW 4121 Staff, faculty, university healthcare workers, facilities & maintenance workers, research workers, academic advisors – we carry out the crucial everyday work that keeps our campuses running. It’s time we had a say in shaping the future of our sector in order to build a world that actually

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“The kids are alright” — HELU at the DSA National Convention, Alliances in the Making

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Joe Berry, delegate from AFT 2121 City College of San Francisco, member of HELU Outreach Committee and liaison with the National Labor Commission of DSA The 2025 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Convention was held in Chicago at McCormick place August 7-10. DSA had invited over 20 allied organizations to come so TJ Acena, Jenna

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Cuts to Earth Science at University of Maryland, College Park

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The University of Maryland, College Park, has over 5,000 faculty members, of which 2,300 are non-tenure track researchers dependent on grant funding and cooperative agreements with federal agencies. The UMD chapter of United Academics of Maryland began during the pandemic as an AAUP advocacy chapter. With help from AAUP and AFT, it is fighting to

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Accreditation Bodies: Ideological Cartels or Guardians of Academic Freedom and the Public Good?

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From Mike Budd, United Faculty of Florida and Higher Education Labor United Governors in Old Confederacy States Authorize Their Own Accreditation Cartel Governors and other politicians in at least seven southern states are reportedly making plans to replace the current accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), with a new, politically conservative accrediting

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July 2025 HELU Chair’s Message: What’s happened in higher ed since the November election?

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From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121, student workers, researchers and postdocs at the University of Washington Over the first six months in office, the Trump Administration attempted to gut funding for crucial research, attack immigrant and non-citizen workers, curtail academic freedom and freedom of speech, and more. These attacks on higher

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