HELU in the News

Demonstrators took to Raleigh’s Moore Square Tuesday to protest the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to research, health care and education funding. The event, which took place from 3 to 6 p.m., was one of several nationwide “Kill the Cuts” rallies on the Higher Ed Labor United national day of action. Demonstrations occurred in over 30 cities across […]

“The Philadelphia demonstration was part of the second “Nationwide Day of Action” — organized by Labor for Higher Education and Higher Education Labor United. The event served as the continuation of an initial day of protests in February. “ Read more at The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Organizers are calling on everyone to join the movement. For instance, Higher Education Labor United has organized actions across the U.S. for April 8, demanding no cuts to education and life-saving research. The Coalition for Action in Higher Ed (CAHE), the organizing collective behind the April 17 Day of Action, has arranged an entire day of virtual events for people

“We have more power now on our campuses than we’ve had in recent memory… We couldn’t actually be better positioned to fight back against the kind of authoritarian attacks that we’re seeing.” – Ian Gavigan, National Director of HELU Continue reading at Inside Higher Ed.

On Tuesday, April 8, a coalition of labor and civil society organizations, organized by Higher Ed Labor United (HELU), will hold demonstrations in more than 30 US cities. These demonstrations, called Kill the Cuts, will escalate over the next months as more and more campuses join in. The Kill the Cuts website has a map

“The actions across the country on 2/19 are just the beginning of the fight,” wrote Higher Education Labor United, a national organization founded in 2021 to unite workers throughout U.S. higher education, on its website. Continue reading at Global Times.

Ray told me that as far as organized resistance within universities, groups like the American Association of University Professors and PEN were already engaged in pushing back on Trump’s orders, with AAUP releasing a statement called “Against Anticipatory Obedience” in January and joining a legal challenge to one of the DEI orders. But as compared to the hospital setting,

At more than a dozen events across the country Wednesday, workers and faculty at colleges and universities gathered to speak out against what they see as an attack on federal research funding, lifesaving medical research and education.  Continue reading at Inside Higher Ed.

Back in 2020, higher education faced multiple challenges—including student debt, administrative bloat, and the spread of contingency (also known as adjunct labor) in faculty hiring. Five years later, the challenges facing higher education are as significant but different. They include a spate of police actions on campuses, anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits, weaponization of accreditation, and political tests for everything from curriculum

“This really is a new day. In September, all of the unions with members working in higher education — the AAUP, the AFT, NEA, SEIU, AFSCME, UNITE HERE, Higher Education Labor United (HELU) — came together and aligned our vision for the future. This had never happened before. The AAUP and HELU were the only