Log on for this training to learn about how the Pennsylvania budget impacts your members and students and what needs to be done to bring PA from the bottom 10 to the top 10 in public higher education funding. Members of public higher ed unions from any union are encouraged to attend, including AFT, AAUP, […]
November 3 – Pennsylvania Budget Workshop on Zoom Read More »
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 and our international students and workers. Higher ed workers – staff, faculty, university healthcare workers, facilities &
November 19 – HELU Open House Read More »
Who is Marc Rowan? The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Higher Ed Loyalty Oath & How We Fight Back Billionaire Marc Rowan, CEO of the private equity giant Apollo Global Management, is a key author of the Trump administration’s “Compact” for higher ed—a loyalty oath that would award federal research funding based on allegiance to Trump’s far
October 30 – Who is Marc Rowan? Read More »
Come hear from the November 2025 candidates for HELU’s Steering Committee (term 2026-2028) at the Candidate Forum on November 17 at 7 PM ET / 6 CT / 5 MT / 4 PT. HELU delegates and at-large members should have received Candidate Forum registration information via email. If you have registration questions or would like
November 17 – Candidate Forum for the November 2025 HELU Election Read More »
Higher Ed Labor United invites you and your members to join the Michigan Senate Candidate Town Hall Series, featuring Democratic candidates discussing their higher education policy agendas and fielding questions directly from faculty, staff, and students. REGISTER FOR NOVEMBER 5 AND/OR 10 here! Each candidate will spend 30–40 minutes responding to both prepared and audience questions about issues impacting our
November 5 & 10 – Michigan Senate Candidate Town Hall Series Read More »
On Monday, November 17th, join public higher ed union workers from across the state for a rally for respect and full funding! Higher Education workers from community colleges, state colleges, and state-related institutions from almost every county in the Commonwealth are coming together to insist that Pennsylvania can no longer balance the budgets on our backs.
Nov 17 – Rally for Respect and Full Funding in Harrisburg, PA Read More »
Join Higher Ed Labor United’s Contingency Task Force on Saturday, Oct 25, from 2:30-5:30 ET / 1:30 – 4:30 CT / 12:30 – 3:30 MT / 11:30 – 2:30 PT for a “coast-to-coast and wall-to-wall” watch party: a free-viewing and live discussion of the newly released feature film ADJUNCT. We will be joined by filmmaker (and
October 25 – ADJUNCT: A Free Film Viewing and Discussion with Filmmaker Ron Najor Read More »
Log on for this training to learn about how the Pennsylvania budget impacts your members and students and what needs to be done to bring PA from the bottom 10 to the top 10 in public higher education funding. Members of public higher ed unions from any union are encouraged to attend, including AFT, AAUP,
October 23 – Pennsylvania Budget Workshop on Zoom Read More »
Join contingent workers across the region to share resources about student debt, adjunct labor, and the kinds of policies that can reshape what is possible. Get to know other part-time faculty and learn how debt impacts their lives and institutions, and how we are organizing to win Higher Education for all. While attacks on higher education
November 6 – Philly Contingent Higher Ed Workers Assembly Read More »
The politicization of higher ed accreditation has become a new front in the right’s national war on quality higher education. Little understood by the typical person, accreditation is the process that sets standards of quality across all forms of higher education and determines access to some forms of federal funding (see this wiki entry). Florida