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The Progressive: Reaffirming Higher Education as a Public Good

College and university faculty, staff, researchers, and students are fed up. And for good reason: high-handed administrative and government attacks on curriculum, faculty governance, and tenure; the recent revocation of more than 1,700 previously authorized visas—hundreds of which have been restored—issued to international scholars and students; complicity between university policymakers and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE); and restrictions on how race, gender,…

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Labor Notes: Faculty Rally Nationwide for Free Speech, Free Tuition, and to Free Detained Students

Faculty-student pairs set up “anti-fascist office hours” at three locations on the Northwestern University campus. Faculty, students, and staff created anti-fascist art at the University of Hawaii. American Association of University Professors members combined membership drives with tabling about the critical issues facing higher education on 30 campuses. And in New York City, 4,000 people…

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AP News: University protests blast Trump’s attacks on funding, speech and international students

About 150 protesters rallied at Columbia, which had been the scene of huge pro-Palestinian protests last year. They gathered on a plaza outside a building that houses federal offices, holding signs emblazoned with slogans including “stop the war on universities” and “censorship is the weapon of fascists.” The protests were organized by the Coalition for…

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The Michigan Daily: ‘It’s a systematic attack on every level’: UMich labor leaders discuss threats to higher education

Sean O’Brien, a Wayne State University academic services advisor and member of the Higher Education Labor United steering committee, said he believed the problems facing higher education were so large that only a nationwide union of workers in all sectors would be able to exert sufficient force against the federal government. One strategy he promoted was for…

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