"This vision for a future of postsecondary education is a recipe for mass immiseration and public disempowerment. Imagine a world where Microsoft, Google, McKinsey, et al … get to determine what and how you learn from cradle to retirement."
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On MayDay higher ed workers and students are marching under one banner. We are fast becoming one of the most organized blocs in US society. JOIN US!
@aaup.org @aft.org @seiu.org @uaw.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social
#MayDay and every day:
Today, AFT Secretary Treasurer Fed Ingram joined Sen Markey and Rep Ramirez to introduce the Equal Tax Act. This Tax Day, we need to stop putting wealth over work and ensure everyone is paying their fair share.
Will give it a listen! Getting interviewed by a student journalist about this open letter in 20 minutes & just gave student activists a semester’s worth of reading recommendations on college affordability & student debt while at the SUNY Student Assembly spring conference.
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Big news out of Maryland!
Beginning July 1st, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty in Maryland will have collective bargaining rights.
www.aaup.org/news/collect...
Huge thanks to @aaup.org, @aft.org, & @aftmaryland.bsky.social for helping us pass this historic legislation!
Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy.
Read it in full here:
www.aaup.org/blueprint-st...
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Austin Texas: Marching from the UT campus to the state Capitol.
“They tried to weaken higher education, but instead they built a movement to fight for the future...
They can attack our institutions, but they cannot stop our movement….We will not stop until we have the higher education system and the democracy we all deserve.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
The eight scholars who participated have long been on the front lines of the crisis.
LABOR: What is the long arc of the crisis, and what are critical flashpoints or events that we can ground ourselves in when discussing it?
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@aaup.org @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
>>> Public Good U
>> yessssss please!
national conference - SUNY
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@rooseveltinstitute.org
@aaup.org
Follow that $$$$.
Spread the financial facts across as many audiences as possible.
Demand accountability and then shared governance over the $$$.
Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.
The University of Iowa's new Center for Intellectual Freedom appears to be off to a rocky start in terms of enrolling students.
They also went over budget on alcohol and food for their introductory event, which isn't surprising when faculty and legislators get together.
yessss$$$$
on strike for a fair contract
all solidarity to the striking faculty at University of Illinois Springfield
Public university professors in Texas say a new law restricts their academic freedom
www.npr.org/2026/04/08/n...
As we approach the one year anniversary of the mass firings of two-thirds of National Endowment for the Humanities staff, we are reflecting on how just a couple of years ago, we were named one of the best agencies to work for in the federal government.
How quickly everything changed. #NEH
When full-time educators are forced into hours-long commutes because they are priced out of their own districts, the system is broken. youtube.com/shorts/a8dBe...
Austerity, corporatization, financialization.
In one of the wealthiest areas in the world -- Connecticut has the funds to maintain and expand a top public education system.
Instead more cuts.
As we say - follow the money $$$
Opportunity to learn how to force greater transparency with public budgets.
With @higheredlabor.bsky.social, Labor@Wayne, Private Equity Stakeholder Proj, and great experts like Kelly Grotke, etc.!*!*
Want to learn more in meantime -- our
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... “I think all of us in academia have an obligation to speak out and protest when our rights are being trampled on. And that’s what’s happening here.”
“The VA General Assembly voted to give over half a million public sector workers collective bargaining rights. But not me. I'm an adjunct faculty member who was just left behind to endure the exploitation of higher education.”
@abigailspanberger.com, please correct course & add us back in.
Video >>
"How to Build a College: Experimental Alternatives in Higher Education"
Series: Forgotten Pasts, Alternative Futures
Co-sponsors w @aaup.org Center for Defense of Academic Freedom and Critical Legal Collective
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"You have two people [from #DOGE] who have no background in the humanities whatsoever...and they’re the ones who do the cancellations."
Meanwhile, the majority of National Endowment for the Humanities staff - who had deep knowledge of these fields - were laid off. #NEH
We are hiring a Membership Specialist in the Department of Organizing and Services.
Full consideration of applications will be given to those submitted by March 26.
Details here:
Scientists cast aside and scientific endeavors dismantled. Similar to the initial stages of the humanities erosion, in a different mode and context but same underlying thread. Academic studies and the pursuit of shared knowledge do not matter.
