Higher Education Labor United (HELU)
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all.
Join us TONIGHT 10/29 @ 7:30pm ET for a ✨ spooky✨ look into the world of academic healthcare workers. A haunted house with: funding cuts, staff shortages, & more. "Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers: The Dangerous Results of Bare-Bones Funding": us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us TONIGHT 10/29 @ 7:30pm ET for a ✨ spooky✨ look into the world of academic healthcare workers. A haunted house with: funding cuts, staff shortages, & more. "Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers: The Dangerous Results of Bare-Bones Funding": us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
TOMORROW! Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
TOMORROW! Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
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Happening now: @uconnaaup.bsky.social members & fellow colleagues in #UConnLabor stand together to shift the balance of power in current #union contract negotiations. #TheCTDifference @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Happening now: @uconnaaup.bsky.social members & fellow colleagues in #UConnLabor stand together to shift the balance of power in current #union contract negotiations. #TheCTDifference @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social
Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
October 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
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Sign the "No Loyalty Oaths in Education!" petition started by Sunrise and sponsored by @higheredlabor.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
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October 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Sign the "No Loyalty Oaths in Education!" petition started by Sunrise and sponsored by @higheredlabor.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...
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And also, if you can’t stand on principle, stand on self preservation. Signing won’t stop this regime from attacking. Signing signals weakness, that you’re an easy target.
There is absolutely nothing to be gained by signing this.
There is absolutely nothing to be gained by signing this.
More of this. Signing this authoritarian devil’s bargain would betray higher education’s independence and the pursuit of knowledge.
MIT rejects "the Compact"
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October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
And also, if you can’t stand on principle, stand on self preservation. Signing won’t stop this regime from attacking. Signing signals weakness, that you’re an easy target.
There is absolutely nothing to be gained by signing this.
There is absolutely nothing to be gained by signing this.
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"If we are to live in a world in which universities emerge from the current moment as sites of thought, learning, and community... we cannot let higher education unions be defeated."
http://www.publicbooks.org/our-right-to-our-union-graduate-student-workers-under-threat/
http://www.publicbooks.org/our-right-to-our-union-graduate-student-workers-under-threat/
Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat - Public Books
University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"If we are to live in a world in which universities emerge from the current moment as sites of thought, learning, and community... we cannot let higher education unions be defeated."
http://www.publicbooks.org/our-right-to-our-union-graduate-student-workers-under-threat/
http://www.publicbooks.org/our-right-to-our-union-graduate-student-workers-under-threat/
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Prof. Karma Chavez: “I think UT’s good enough just to compete on the regular marketplace and still win.” That’s right! UT doesn’t need to trade its independence and autonomy for vague promises of “preferential” federal grant funding! 👏🧡✊ #LonghornPride
pilot.latakoo.com/asset/219723... Dr. Karma Chavez, the new president of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin, on the elimination of democracy in Texas public education and dangers of Trump’s compact. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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October 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Prof. Karma Chavez: “I think UT’s good enough just to compete on the regular marketplace and still win.” That’s right! UT doesn’t need to trade its independence and autonomy for vague promises of “preferential” federal grant funding! 👏🧡✊ #LonghornPride
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ICYMI our Cultural Center, which included the Pride Lounge, BIPOC lounge, & Pride Closet, is no more. Any remaining functions have been merged, along with Native American and Indigenous Initiatives and Black Community Initiatives, into a "Community Connections Team"
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October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICYMI our Cultural Center, which included the Pride Lounge, BIPOC lounge, & Pride Closet, is no more. Any remaining functions have been merged, along with Native American and Indigenous Initiatives and Black Community Initiatives, into a "Community Connections Team"
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MIT rejects the compact! 👏👏👏👏
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“The document also includes principles w/ which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression & our independence as an institution. And [it] is inconsistent w/ our core belief that scientific funding shld be based on scientific merit alone.”
“The document also includes principles w/ which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression & our independence as an institution. And [it] is inconsistent w/ our core belief that scientific funding shld be based on scientific merit alone.”
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
MIT rejects the compact! 👏👏👏👏
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I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."
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Regarding the Compact
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October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."
@aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org
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@aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org
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Trump is demanding nine colleges and universities sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." These demands will come to all of higher ed if we don't stand together and fight back now. Tell our college and university administrations: Reject the Compact! tinyurl.com/rejectthecom...
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Trump is demanding nine colleges and universities sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." These demands will come to all of higher ed if we don't stand together and fight back now. Tell our college and university administrations: Reject the Compact! tinyurl.com/rejectthecom...
HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...
October 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...
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...
October 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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...
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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
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
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...
www.aaup.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
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
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...
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.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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...
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...
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.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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...
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"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...
September 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"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...
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CAHE on the (ab)use of antisemitism by the House Education and Workforce Committee to attack organized labor. Who will speak out? Please read and share! academeblog.org/2025/09/12/t...
The New McCarthyism Reaches Organized Labor: Who Will Speak Out?
By The Coalition for Action in Higher Education On Tuesday this week, a subcommittee of the House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing titled “Unmasking Union Antisemitism.” Subco…
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September 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
CAHE on the (ab)use of antisemitism by the House Education and Workforce Committee to attack organized labor. Who will speak out? Please read and share! academeblog.org/2025/09/12/t...
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The University of Minnesota should listen to Willie Nelson and settle with workers striking for a small wage increase and a fair contract.
September 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The University of Minnesota should listen to Willie Nelson and settle with workers striking for a small wage increase and a fair contract.
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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
We're here with the Nevada Faculty Alliance to support the fight to preserve union rights and shared governance for Nevada's higher-ed workers. Solidarity! @nvfa.bsky.social @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @thenvindy.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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
"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...
September 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"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...
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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
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
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September 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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
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
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...
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?
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September 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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...
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Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...
Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan
Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.
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September 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...