HELU in the News

“Can this possibly be real?” one colleague asked me when she saw the tweet. It sure is, as Temple officials have confirmed. Many commenters in the Tweet thread suggested that this is downright illegal. And the national coalition Higher Education Labor United put out a statement declaring that “removing tuition remission would destroy [Temple University]

“As University of California researchers return to work, union organizers say this is just the beginning of a nationwide push for better working conditions.” “As it stands, academia is now home to some of the largest growth in unionization across all sectors of the US economy. Nearly 150 unions, representing more than 600,000 academic workers,

“Free or low-cost college used to be the norm, but now, as austerity measures saddle students with debt and create precarious conditions for many academic workers, American politicians create policy that treats higher education as a luxury. And today, college remains a weapon in the culture wars, with attacks on affirmative action, diversity, equity and

Protecting freedom of expression is vital, but it is useless to divorce disputes about the content of research and teaching from the attacks on the very structures of higher education that house, fund, and govern it. Supporters of free speech must work with and learn from labor organizers, debt resisters, community organizers, advocates for racial