HELU Articles
HELU is Hiring: Convention Coordinator
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) urgently seeks temporary staff through the beginning of July 2024 for the position of Convention Coordinator. The Convention Coordinator serves as the lead for the planning and execution of HELU’s founding convention this spring, including all social organizational infrastructure (physical logistics and social, i.e., across HELU member and prospective member…
A HELU Roundtable in Los Angeles
From Mia McIver, UC-AFT On February 17, 2024, HELU partnered with UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) to host an exciting roundtable conversation in Los Angeles. 50 participants joined in to discuss building coalitional power, politicizing our labor struggles, and expanding the labor movement in higher education. We were welcomed by Loretta…
March 28 – The Big Con in Higher Ed: How Consulting Firms Are Transforming the University and How to Fight Back
Thursday, March 28, 20247pm ET/6pm CT/5pm MT/4pm PTVirtual Forum on Zoom – Register here Please join us for a discussion with experts tracking the methods and impact of these firms and possible tactics to oppose them. Lisa Levenstein (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) will facilitate a conversation with: Rachel Ida Buff (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) S….
National Day of Action for Higher Ed: Get Involved
AAUP-Penn is working together with many higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, HELU members, and student organizations across the country to plan a National Day of Action for Higher Education that will take place on April 17. The aim is not just to beat back the current attacks on academic freedom and on campus protests, DEI bans, and devastating budget…
HELU’s Contingency Task Force: Building Movement in March!
From Joe Ramsey HELU’s Contingency Task Force (CTF) works to center the concerns of contingent faculty (both part-time and full-time), and to raise consciousness more broadly about the way that labor precarity erodes academic freedom and the common good mission of higher education. We also work to develop and share strategies for building faculty solidarity and…
Is HELU’s “wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast” too ambitious?
From Helena Worthen No. Wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast is just the simplest way to state where we’ve got to go in order to eliminate contingency, reclaim academic freedom and get back higher education as a public good. “Wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast” may be ambitious, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. HELU is just the current front…