Solidarity Asks

United Faculty of Florida’s fight to protect academic freedom and integrity is all of our fight. Proposed legislation in Florida poses a threat to the public good of higher education, which, in effect, is a threat to free and informed thought across the US. Sign this letter in support of UFF’s efforts to protect academic […]

The University of California is laying off teaching faculty while simultaneously granting healthy raises to all other employees. In one such case, UC Davis Lecturer & Director of Choirs Erik Peregrine has been laid off after 1 year of their 2-year contract, generating a civil rights complaint of gender discrimination and a union grievance alleging breach of

At Virginia Commonwealth University, faculty have been told that as many as 17 current employees, nearly one-third of the Department of Focused Inquiry, may be laid off in order to balance the budget. The Department of Focused Inquiry teaches first-year, foundational seminars that build students’ communication skills, cultural and global competency, research skills, collaboration, and critical thinking.

Representatives of the five Texas higher ed faculty organizations (Texas AAUP Conference, the  American Federation of Teachers,;  the Texas Association of College Teachers,  the Texas Faculty Association, and the  Texas State Employees Union) ask HELU supporters to make phone calls to staff of the Texas Higher Education Committee to protest against three bills coming out of the Texas Senate, SB 16, 17

This week, April 17, 2023, the Texas Senate is expected to debate and pass two bills that would take effect at all public colleges and universities in Texas on September 1, 2023: Senate Bill 18 would eliminate granting of tenure for all faculty members;Senate Bill 17 would ban DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) offices, officers,

We are the AAUP-AFT, the PTLFC, and BHSNJ and our three unions represent several groups of faculty and other campus employees, including medical faculty, part-time lecturers, graduate students, non-tenure track faculty, and tenure track faculty, at Rutgers University, the flagship university of New Jersey. We have been bargaining for a new contract for nearly a

United Campus Workers of Arizona need your support to ensure fair working conditions for Contingent Faculty throughout the university system in Arizona. Contingent faculty now comprise at least 53% of all faculty appointments at UA and 61% at ASU, and these numbers continue to rise. Contingent Faculty members are disproportionately women and people of color. We teach the

Grad workers, GEO AFT-Michigan Local 3550, at the University of Michigan are raising money for a strike fund! Grad workers are not yet on strike, but we need to prepare for action if the university admin continues to refuse to offer meaningful solutions to the serious problems we’re facing. This fund will support grad workers