HELU Events

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 […]

At a time when jobs, security, our hospitals, and the health of the American People are put in danger, labor stepped in and has led campaigns to save government-funded health programs and safeguard the interests of patients and workers. Join HELU organizers on Zoom on Wednesday, October 29 at 7:30 PM ET / 6:30 CT

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 &

HELU is bringing together library workers across the country to strategize against threats to higher ed library workers’ livelihoods. We will come together to meet and set our agenda, then we will break into small groups to discuss crises in academic freedom, disparities between library staff categorizations, labor organizing, austerity, and more. Our goal is

At the HELU General Assembly on November 20, 2025, HELU delegates from around the country will meet to assess the current state of higher ed labor and what kind of work we should prioritize over the short- and long-term. We will elect new HELU leadership that will serve January 2026 until January 2028. We will

As you know, 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

We are in the process of rescheduling this event. We apologize for the inconvenience. Virtual workshop for ICWP volunteers to more effectively organize international campus workers Hosted by the HELU International Campus Worker Protections Group (ICWP) Tuesday, September 23 @ 7pm ET/ 6 CT/ 5 MT/ 4 PT Register here Many of our Higher Ed

Join us for our upcoming webinar “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back” on Monday, August 18th at 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT. We’ll be joined by Sara Garcia, a policy analyst for Senator Bernie Sanders on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP). Sara will walk us through the parts

Attacks from the Trump administration are putting international students and workers in our campuses at risk. Mass SEVIS terminations, cancellations of Visa appointments, targeted attacks against Chinese nationals, ICE detentions and threats of raids in our campuses are making our jobs, our livelihoods, and the mission of our institutions unsafe. These actions follow the same

On August 20, 2025 at 7 PM ET/6 PM CT/5 PM MT/ 4 PM PT, HELU is bringing together library workers across the country to strategize against threats to higher ed library workers’ livelihoods. We will come together to meet and set our agenda, then we will break into small groups to discuss crises in