HELU Events

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

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

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.

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

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,

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

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