HELU Events

April 26 – Prioritizing Faculty Equality to Defend Higher Education: Defining Obstacles to Solidarity and Strategies to Surmount Them

Prioritizing Faculty Equality to Defend Higher Education: Sunday, April 26, 3-5pm ET (2-4pm CT, 1-3pm MT, 12-2pm PT) Register for the zoom forum here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WZntS-qRQFyCjcnWihF98g#/registration  Featuring voices from Higher Ed Labor United’s Contingency Task Force:  This “coast to coast” HELU panel will feature a range of institutional and strategic viewpoints about the obstacles to unity and solidarity

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April 27: Stand Up for Free Speech & Academic Freedom at CUNY Graduate Center

From our colleagues at the CUNY Graduate Center Chapter of the Professional Staff Congress: The CUNY Graduate Center Chapter of the Professional Staff Congress is hosting a stop on Tom Alter’s Defend Free Speech tour! Come listen to Tom and Noelle discuss the struggle for free speech on campus, and join the discussion on how

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April 8 – Distributed Organizing Training

From our colleagues at the Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education: We Have to Get Smaller to Get Bigger — The Foundation of Distributed Organizing At a basic level, people need meaningful roles to stay engaged. As your organization grows, responsibilities must be distributed effectively. Small teams are the best structure — they allow members

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January 27 – Workshop on Higher Ed Candidate Questionnaires

Join HELU member union leaders from around the country Tuesday, January 27 at 7 ET / 6 CT / 5 MT / 4 PT to learn about how to use HELU’s candidate questionnaire to gather information and education higher education workers, students, and allies about where candidates for public office stand on our issues. This

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December 3 – Why American Higher Education Needs An Overhaul – In NYC

December 36-7:30pm ET275 7th Avenue, NYCRegister here Join the Century Foundation, Jain Family Institute, and Higher Education Labor United for a presentation and discussion of a new proposal to fundamentally remake American higher education. American higher education is in crisis, with the existing system failing students, workers, and the public at large while catering to

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canceled – December 17 – HELU Open House

The December HELU Open House has been canceled. Register here for the January 21 HELU Open House. Higher education remains the target of continued political attacks from the federal government. College and university administrations remain too slow in their response with many obeying in advance by cutting programs and taking extreme actions against “problematic” faculty

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