higher education
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Analysis
Temple University graduate workers enter their second month of strike
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” Since January 31, this has been the message from Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA), AFL-CIO Local…
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UC Academic Workers win historic contracts after 40-day strike!
After 40 days on strike, 36,000 graduate and undergraduate student-workers across the University of California voted to ratify a historic…
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Analysis
Part-time faculty at the New School strike for a better quality of life
On a picket line in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, more than 2,000 people gathered at the New School University Center to…
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Analysis
U of California Academic Workers make history with largest, decisive vote to strike Nov. 14
The strikes will include four UAW bargaining units – Postdocs, Academic Student Employees, Graduate Student Researchers and Academic Researchers –…
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Militant Journalism
AFSCME Local 1110 still without a new contract in Bloomington, Illinois
After six months, workers expressed support for a potential work stoppage since the university has not been receptive to any…
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Militant Journalism
Right-wing college administration in Texas doubles down on free speech attacks, fires outspoken professor
Phillips said the “tipping point” for his nonrenewal was talking about masks with his students amid an ongoing pandemic.
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Labor
Columbia Student Workers win 10-week battle against greedy university
Student workers “cannot educate unless we have everything we need to live outside our role as educators.”
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Militant Journalism
Why is Pennsylvania considering mass layoffs in public higher education?
The Chancellor of the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education, Daniel Greenstein, is attempting to ram through a plan to consolidate…
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Militant Journalism
Victory in historic Oregon Tech faculty strike
The faculty received most everything they had bargained for: fair wages, secure benefits, and a reasonable and clearly defined workload.
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Analysis
Tennessee owes HBCU over $500 million after decades of under-funding
The state owes Tennessee State University (TSU) $544 million after underfunding the land-grant institution for over 50 years.
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