Solidarity Asks

From our colleagues at UC-AFT: Ed Walker, Chair of UCLA’s Sociology department, recently terminated lecturer Beth Ribet’s appointment. Beth Ribet is among a number of UCLA faculty with disabilities who use universal design principles when teaching. Universal design increases accessibility of education for students, particularly those with disabilities. UCLA clearly encourages faculty to use universal […]

Boston University graduate student workers with BUGWU (Boston University Graduate Workers Union) have been on strike since March 2024. Here are some ways you can support them as the Fall 2024 semester begins:

U-M President Santa Ono and the Board of Regents are leading an unprecedented campaign of mass repression againstpro-Palestine activists, using police violence, criminal charges, internal disciplinary processes, and firings to deter themovement, despite overwhelming support for divestment on campus. Just before the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, University of Michigan HR informed at least

From our siblings at Smith College Libraries Workers United (SCLWU): With over half of Smith College Libraries Workers United (SCLWU) members reporting that they are looking for other jobs, and while recruitment and retention are at all time lows, the College’s anti-union stance is baffling and out of alignment with Smith College’s purported mission. We

From our colleagues at WAU: Wayne Academic Union (WAU AAUP-AT Local 6075) represents around 1700 faculty and academic staff at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. We’re calling for fair compensation after a decade of wage stagnation, flexible work arrangements for our academic staff, and money for students facing housing instability. We know that we

From our colleagues at DePaul: Academic Freedom is under attack at DePaul University! On May 8, 2024 an adjunct instructor at DePaul was fired without notice of a clear appeals process for offering an optional assignment that connected the course content to the atrocities taking place in Gaza. This was not an isolated incident, but

From our colleagues at United Academics of Philly: Hundreds of faculty and staff members have dedicated their careers to supporting the students and mission at University of the Arts and are now left completely unsupported due to the announced closure of the University as of June 7th. That’s just 8 days after the announcement in

From our colleagues at CWA: For years, the workplace rights of nurses, teachers, public safety officers, and other workers performing vital services to benefit the public have been under attack. Anti-worker politicians and their corporate donors have rigged the system to gut workers’ rights and go after health and safety requirements, staffing levels, and more.

Radical Teacher seeks submissions about teaching in and about the protest encampments and other forms of student activism that have emerged during the spring of 2024 across the U.S. and the world. What kinds of teaching and learning are happening in the encampments and elsewhere in this protest movement? What new knowledges, intellectual collaborations, and creative pedagogies are emerging

Over the course of the last year, the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education Post-Tenure Ad Hoc Committee has been reviewing tenure and the post-tenure review process at our colleges and universities. They recently prepared a report with findings and recommendations for tenure that could risk the ability of higher education institutions to recruit and retain