Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union

Unbelievably bad idea.

📣🗞️ Read more on the important work @hellobrittparis.bsky.social and others at @aaup.org national have been doing on the impacts of Ai in this interview for Blood in the Machine www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bub...

Know Your Rights. How to Protest Safely and Peacefully. August 6, 2025. Rutgers Labor Education Center New Brunswick, NJ

aftnewjersey.bsky.social will present a full-day mass mobilization training on Aug. 6 featuring presentations led by representatives from aft.org ‬ and the @aclu-nj.org
Learn nonviolent protesting techniques, the best ways to organize a rally and much more.
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"'...And imagine if the Big Ten Network said: You know what, sports are important, but we want to protect the integrity of our entire institutions...we will never yield in our pursuit of excellence in higher education.'"

"'...They could be leveraging the fact that they have a formal academic alliance of 18 of the biggest universities and offer a joint statement affirming the dramatic importance of higher education,' he said. 'But they don’t….'"

"As Boxer, whose academic work is on how aggressive behavior develops, waits for the challenges to Trump’s overreach to make it through the courts, he continues to try to influence his university’s administration."

The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.

🗞️ Read of the Day: a great piece on the work of Paul Boxer & the @RutgersU faculty Senate's Mutual Academic Defense Compact, the power of faculty governance, and cross-university coalitional work in resisting Trump's attack on higher ed beyond the Ivies

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Medicaid Cuts Could Damage College Student Outcomes Massive cuts to a federal health insurance program could impact the 3.4 million college students who rely on it.

🗞️ Yet another appalling consequence of cutting Medicaid that will impact our students and the wider nation (no paywall on this). https://loom.ly/pmAlzqI
#healthcare #medicaidcuts #highered
@aaup.org, @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social

A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump’s Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students In Boston, a Reagan appointee is on pace to get to the bottom of the campaign against Mahmoud Khalil and others the Administration wants to deport over their activism.

"The @aaup.org...allege a different kind of harm: their inability to fully exercise their right to teach, write, organize, & collaborate with one another, as scholars often do...because doing so would put them in the sights of the Administration.”
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

AFT Higher Education is offering a series of webinars on Digital Safety and Security for international students and scholars Monday, July 28, 8:00–9:00 p.m. ET & Thursday, July 31, 10:00–11:00 a.m. ET AFT is partnering with the Democratic Security Project (DSP), a nonprofit group dedicated to providing safety and security solutions at a time when harassment, threats and intimidation are on the rise. Are you currently overseas and traveling back to the United States later this summer? AFT is offering a one-hour information session with the Democracy Security Project (DSP) on how you should mitigate both cyber and physical vulnerabilities while traveling. The team at DSP will offer practical and pragmatic solutions on a number of subjects like handling your devices, data privacy, and border security best practices.

In preparation for the fall semester AFT Higher Education is offering two webinars on digital safety & security for our international students and scholars.
RSVP for the July 28 at 8:00pm ET: https://loom.ly/Inejx9o
RSVP for the July 31 at 10:00am ET: https://loom.ly/NmKq5jo

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.

This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.

Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

Fighting Weaponized AI in Higher Education BY BRITT S. PARIS, LINDSAY WEINBERG, AND EMMA MAY Tomorrow, July 23, the Trump administration plans to release an “AI action plan” that reflects the White House’s priorities for expanding the…

🗞️ Read of the Day on AI's impacts on higher ed by RUAAUP member leader @hellobrittparis.bsky.social, member Emma May, and @aauppurdue.bsky.social VP Lindsay Weinberg. See also the link to the full report in the blog post and in our linktree. academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...

We on the AAUP Committee on AI have been connecting with members on their concerns with technology. We’ve been developing recommendations to loosen or even refuse big tech’s hold on higher ed, for better working and learning conditions, and building solidarity around many fights tied to tech.

DHS Targeted Khan Suri for Academic Speech, Lawyers Allege Lawyers for a university academic association alleged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) targeted Georgetown University postdoctoral researcher Badar Khan Suri for his academic research an...

They're going after students who speak their minds on Palestine, but they won't stop there.

They'll come next for anyone who says anything they disagree with.

We all have to draw a line together.

#defendhighered #aaupvrubio

Students who protest against the death and destruction in Gaza should be jailed and deported but if you believe the Holocaust didn’t happen, you are qualified to be the Secretary of Education.

Make it make sense.

“We cannot live in fear. AAUP and our partners will not cower in silence. We will stand with and for higher education writ large. We will stand for democracy.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

“If noncitizens can be deported based on their political speech, then they have no First Amendment rights at all because they must always, always worry that their speech and associations will displease those in power”–Ramya Krishnan, a senior staff attorney at the Knight Institute.

Trump’s Student Arrests, and the Lawsuit Fighting Them, Tread New Ground The Trump administration’s efforts to deport foreign students who espoused pro-Palestinian views under a little-used foreign policy provision have no obvious legal parallel.

🗞️ Read of the Day: Update on the AAUP & Knight Institute Lawsuit against Marco Rubio and the Trump Administration
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"...rather they...are here “to do the most important cutting-edge research in the world & to teach the next leaders of this country. That's our job and the people who know that best are the faculty.”

The Death of Shared Governance When administrators attempt to slash programs and lay off staff, should faculty have a say?

Read 🗞️ of the Day
In response to the recent layoffs/buyouts at Duke, AAUP President Todd Wolfson: Faculty members should have a voice in how colleges are run because colleges are not just businesses...

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First in-person session of our Summer Organizing School discussion series met last night in South Jersey! 📖📚 Newark meets tonight, New Brunswick tomorrow night! If you're a Rutgers faculty union member, sign up here: forms.gle/51DtwmvSAnYS...

Summer Organizing School Session 2* Camden: July 14th At 6pm Location: King's Road Brewery 131 Kings Hwy, Haddonfield, NJ Newark: July 15th At 6pm Location: Writing Program office, Hahnes-250, Newark, NJ New Brunswick: July 16th at 6pm Location: 11 Stone Street, New Brunswick, NJ *Note that the in-person sessions are all the same content but offered in different locations. Intended for union members.

🆘 Join your union colleagues this summer to study, discuss, & socialize as we read sections of Jane McAlevey & Abby Lawlor’s Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations. Session 1 not required to attend Session 2!
Register: https://loom.ly/4Fmk9Ck

📣✊ Our efforts are working! Legislators have been inundated with calls and emails. The budget will not come out of Committee today and will likely be voted on in Committee tomorrow. If you haven't called yet, PLEASE DO!

🚨URGENT: Our state funding and health benefits are under threat as a new state budget starts moving today. It’s important to call our legislators to stop cuts to health benefits NOW. See the slides for targets and call scripts.

HEAT WAVE HOUSING ISSUES THIS WEEK WE HEARD FROM GRAD WORKERS THAT THEY & THEIR FAMILIES HAVE BEEN SUFFERING IN ON-CAMPUS HOUSING. WE’VE HEARD THAT UNITS IN MARVIN, NICHOLS, & BUELL APARTMENTS HAVE HAD SPOTTY OR EVEN NO A/C & TENANTS HAVE NOT GOTTEN SUPPORT. TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE–OUTSIDE UNITS ARE BANNED. IT HAS REACHED 85+ DEGREES IN SOME UNITS WITH CHILDREN. THESE CONDITIONS ARE UNLIVABLE & CAN’T CONTINUE THIS SUMMER. HAVE YOU FACED ISSUES? TELL US ABOUT IT!

🚨 HEAT WAVE HOUSING ISSUES
Grad workers & their families in Rutgers housing are living in units with spotty or no A/C + no repair support. This is unacceptable & can't continue through the summer.
💬 Faced heat or mold issues in RU housing? Tell us: https://loom.ly/j2nKjxo
#RUGradWorkers #RUHousing

We Need Your Help This Week to Stop State Health Care Cuts Please fill out the form below if you can help us resist $100 million in cuts to our state health plans.

📣 🏛️ 🆘 The deadline for a new budget is Monday 6/30. We need to mobilize NOW to make phone calls to legislative leaders, get the word out to colleagues, & show up in Trenton for a union action.
✍️ Fill out this form to let us know how you can help.
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With state health benefit costs rising ‘astronomically,’ Murphy seeks $100M in cuts The state pays the majority of the cost of health benefits for state workers

📣 🏛️ 🆘 Murphy & legislative leaders want to include $100 million in “savings" to the budget, including cuts to health care plans—drastically raising costs for members, undermining our contracts, & threatening health insurance access for adjuncts.
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As a faculty union, we are greatly concerned with the profound impact that bill A3558 would have on the academic freedom and the exercise of our 1st Amendment rights to free speech, assembly, and the press on NJ college campuses. Read the full Executive Board statement here: https://loom.ly/S-IR2us

SOS Summer Organizing School

Schedule Session 1: Wed, June 25th at 7pm on zoom Session 2: in-person Sessions: Camden: July 14th At 6pm Newark: July 15th At 6pm New Brunswick: July 16th at 6pm Session 3: Thur, August 14th at 7 pm On Zoom

Core text* Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations by Jane McAlevey *Accessible digitally through rutgers Libary

🆘 Join your union colleagues & the joint Member Education & Engagement Committee this summer to study, discuss, & socialize as we read sections of Jane McAlevey & Abby Lawlor’s Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations. Sign Up: https://loom.ly/KU0aNIc

🗞️ As we head into preparations for a new contract under these national attacks, it is more critical than ever that we strengthen our numbers. If you are already a dues paying member, talk to your colleagues about joining. We'll have many canvass days coming up. Stay tuned. We are stronger together.