Read about the attack on academic freedom in Louisiana in a September 2025 article by Kimberly Terrell, Ph.D. higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/l...
02.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Politicizing Accreditation in the South and Beyond
This webinar will explore the historic importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional norms and standards for public higher education and examine the threats a politicize...
WEBINAR ALERT!💻
The AAUP is hosting a webinar exploring the importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional standards & examining threats a politicized accreditation system poses to academic freedom.
▶️October 6, 7PM
26.09.2025 17:34 — 👍 39 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 2
6 More Faculty, Staff Removed for Kirk Comments
Republican politicians and other conservatives are calling for employees, including those in higher ed, to be terminated for their social media posts about Kirk's killing.
What happened to free speech? We've seen at least a dozen political firings in the last week of faculty, staff, and student workers. This isn't just about academic freedom. It's about job security and our right to free speech. It won't stop here. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
15.09.2025 14:23 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Trump Administration Withholds Millions for TRIO Programs
Nonprofits that advocate for first-gen students say that without the federally funded programs, college could become unattainable for hundreds of thousands of students.
TRIO programs provide the kinds of support – advising, mentoring, safe spaces, academic support & more – that help first-gen students thrive in college. All students deserve these opportunities. Instead, the administration is taking away TRIO funding. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
15.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence against external manipulations." www.chronicle.com/article/when...
13.09.2025 21:47 — 👍 96 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of Willie Nelson with statement in support of striking workers at the University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota should listen to Willie Nelson and settle with workers striking for a small wage increase and a fair contract.
13.09.2025 00:58 — 👍 171 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 0
We had solidarity in Vegas, Reno, and in Elko! Labor in all corners of the state came out in solidarity to say "no" to changing the rules for collective bargaining in the middle of faculty contract negotiations! And the Regents backed down and postponed any changes! @higheredlabor.bsky.social
12.09.2025 19:43 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"Whether a professor, staff member, student, or community member, we all have the right to our own beliefs, ideas, and values and the right to speak about them openly as private citizens." Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...
13.09.2025 02:44 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Sign the Petition
We Demand Texas State University Give Tom Alter His Job Back
Beloved History professor and Socialist Horizon member Tom Alter was summarily fired on September 10th by
Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse for expressing his ideas at a virtual conference. We Demand Texas State University Give Tom Alter His Job Back chng.it/Lr8fkLfy via @Change
13.09.2025 01:00 — 👍 20 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
Harvard Dominates Headlines, But Other Schools Are Quietly Battling Trump
Faculty at state schools are waging collective action in the face of both federal and state attacks. Will it be enough?
Read more in @truthout.org: HELU is "focused on building coalitions of different types of workers on campus and working across the unions that represent higher ed workers." If we're battling quietly now, we're going to have to get loud, right? Are you in? truthout.org/articles/har...
08.09.2025 21:54 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Raising HELU, Wall to Wall and Coast to Coast
When Higher Education Labor United was proposed in 2021, the major issues facing higher education were rising tuition, student debt, widespread reliance on contingent faculty, attacks on tenure, threa...
Labor activists in coalition of local unions and labor-adjacent orgs. This was new, including the whole workforce of higher ed: faculty, clerical, health care, custodians, librarians, counselors, IT, buildings maintenance, landscapers, dining services, etc.
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
29.08.2025 15:26 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Download a sign! New For Labor Day – See You in the Streets! With a background of HELU rally signs available to print at link.
Make a statement for higher ed workers this Labor Day with HELU signs! Easily printable from our website, perfect for any kind of Labor Day action. See you in the streets! higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/28/h...
29.08.2025 19:17 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
What Trump is Doing to Universities
Loving this from @hankgreen.bsky.social on the ongoing attacks on higher education and why our workplaces have become political battlegrounds. Just wanted to mention another reason these attacks will fail: higher ed workers are FIERCE and getting more organized every day. ❤️ youtu.be/FQwhGOhZRyE?...
21.08.2025 00:57 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.
It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.
Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
18.08.2025 18:42 — 👍 1041 🔁 770 💬 48 📌 149
Join us on Monday for WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD BILL? HIGHER ED FIGHTS BACK!
Together, we'll learn about how the BIG BAD BILL harms higher ed workers & students and how we can unite and fight back!
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
15.08.2025 18:29 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
UC Stand Up
Please forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup
Click here for news updates
Let’s make sure UC faculty and staff know we have their backs! Sign and share, please! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sfndhe.bsky.social @standhighered.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @cnewf.bsky.social
sites.google.com/view/ucstand...
10.08.2025 22:29 — 👍 30 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
Join us Monday, August 18 for WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD BILL? HIGHER ED FIGHTS BACK!
7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 CT / 5:30 MT / 4:30 PT.
Register at bit.ly/HELU_August18
12.08.2025 15:16 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bill? Higher Education Fights Back. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for our upcoming webinar “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back” on Monday, August 18th at 7:30 pm et, 6:30 ct, 5:30 mt and 4:30 pt. We’ll be joined by Sara Garcia, a policy ...
“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back”
Mon, Aug 18
7:30 pm et, 4:30 pt.
Joined by Sara Garcia, a policy analyst for Senator Bernie Sanders on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP).
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
@aaup.org
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
07.08.2025 13:59 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
"As a college professor, watching the dismantling of America’s education system has been among the most discouraging events of my life."
We agree
@aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social
28.07.2025 12:53 — 👍 46 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
Contingent Labor at the University of Arizona: One Damn Thing After Another – Higher Education Labor United
From the @higheredlabor.bsky.social newsletter: fighting instructor layoffs at the University of Arizona
#contingent #adjunct #HigherEd
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/c...
28.07.2025 17:48 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The University of California System: Labor Actions Loom in 2025-2026 – Higher Education Labor United
If @uofcalifornia.bsky.social doesn't budge on its concession bargaining with @uptecwa.bsky.social and @afscme3299.bsky.social, it faces the prospect of having more than 120,000 workers out of contract by January 1. @higheredlabor.bsky.social
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/t...
28.07.2025 20:14 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Building Campus Solidarity Across Job Categories: Lessons from Recent Strikes & Adjunct Struggles
Speakers include:
Todd Wolfson, President, American Association of University Professors
Diana Vallera, President, Columbia College Faculty Union
Bryan Sacks, Immediate Past President, Rutgers Adjunct Union
Sydney Brahmavar, Secretary, Clark College Association of Higher Educators
Wednesday, July 30: Join us for a strategy discussion about how we can build solidarity across job categories on campus. 6pm ET/5pm CT/4pm MT/3pm PT on Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
28.07.2025 22:12 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
Union members rally against systemwide layoffs at UC regents meeting
About 25 members of various unions representing University of California employees protested outside the Luskin Conference Center on July 15 at UCLA, carrying banners objecting to mass layoffs during…
About 25 members of various unions representing University of California employees protested outside the UC Board of Regents’ July 15 meetings at UCLA’s Luskin Conference Center. The University Council held the rally and had members attend public comment
17.07.2025 02:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On August 20, 2025 at 7 PM EST, Higher Ed Labor United is bringing together higher ed library workers across the country to strategize against threats to their livelihoods and profession.
On August 20, 2025 at 7 PM EST, @higheredlabor.bsky.social is bringing together higher ed library workers across the country to strategize against threats to their livelihoods and profession. See this message for more info.
13.07.2025 17:30 — 👍 147 🔁 61 💬 0 📌 4
The GW-AAUP advances academic freedom and shared governance at George Washington University.
Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors
Official bluesky account for the Research Associates and Postdocs United at Penn (RAPUP-UAW), the union of postdoctoral scholars and research associates at the University of Pennsylvania.
CT's state federation of @aft.org w/34K+ #union members serving in PreK-12 #PublicEd, #HigherEd, healthcare & municipal + state government. Follow us for more on the benefits for all when working people choose #UnionYES!
aftct.org
A union of non–tenure-track teachers and researchers at Harvard University.
We are University of Alaska (UA) workers and students, past and present.
We aim to connect all UA workers to struggle for better wages and conditions. We do this in a militant way, outside and against the unions.
https://uaworkers.neocities.org
UFF represents over 25K faculty members + 8K grad assistants at 12 universities, 17 colleges. Our goal is to build a movement for higher education in FL.
We are a democratic, mass-participation organization of grad workers fighting for the respect, compensation, and security we deserve.
A wall-to-wall union for every campus worker. We are the staff, faculty, and student workers that make our colleges and universities work. Part of Communications Workers of America. Learn more at ucw-cwa.org
Founded in the 1940s. Proud to be the largest chapter of the American Association of University Professors in Colorado, and still growing! Learn more: https://sites.google.com/view/duaaup/home
Avid flyfisher & lover of penguins. James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (retired); Founding Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law. Author of Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition, and Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality.
Professor (views my own - not my institution's), co-editor and co-author of "The Right to Learn" and "It's Not Free Speech," and director, with Jan Haaken, of the documentary "The Palestine Exception: What's at Stake in the Campus Protests?"
Representing over 1,100 workers nationwide at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. CFPB workers have returned over $21 billion to millions of Americans since 2012
www.nteu335.org
Working to make WHOI a safe and comfortable environment for all graduate-student workers.
Follow us on Instagram @WHOIGradUnion
HUCTW (AFSCME Local 3650) is Harvard’s largest labor union—representing over 5600 union members across the Harvard campus.
Journalism for civil society. Reporting on leadership, climate justice, racial justice, health justice, economic justice, philanthropy, and equity issues.
Championing science, diversity, and fact-based policy in the city where American democracy was born. 🧪🦅
Learn more about us: https://linktr.ee/phillyscienceaction
United University Professions is the nation's largest higher education union, with members at New York state-operated SUNY campuses and teaching hospitals.
Unofficial resistance group fighting to protect the U.S. Department of Education.
