Wednesday, April 23, 2025

United Steel Workers Goes All in on Solidarity at Convention

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  More than 2,000 members from across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean spent four days charting the future of our union and recom...

Higher ed is under attack: What do we do? Stand up fight back (AFT Higher Education)

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H igher education under attack President Donald Trump has declared war on America’s colleges and universities, demanding they bow to his dem...

What’s Happening & Why: HELU Calls on Academic Workers to Stand Up (Higher Ed Labor United)

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  What’s Happening and Why: HELU Calls on Academic Workers to Stand Up If institutions won’t stand up to the Trump administration, then it’s...

We have met the enemy...

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Class conflict has always been woven into the fabric of American higher education. The struggle over access, affordability, and control of k...

The Digital Dark Ages

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In this so-called Age of Information, we find ourselves plunged into a paradoxical darkness—a time when myth increasingly triumphs over trut...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

For-Profit College Corporation Perdoceo Gave Your Tax Dollars to Trump Inaugural Committee (David Halperin)

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A new report filed with the Federal Election Commission shows that the troubled for-profit college operation Perdoceo Education Corp. donate...

More than 100 Champions of Higher Education Join PEN America in "A Pledge to Our Democracy"

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 In a stirring call to action, more than 100 distinguished former college and university leaders from across the nation have joined PEN Amer...

Wellsley College: Progressive in Theory. Right Wing in Practice.

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The ongoing faculty strike at Wellesley College reveals, in stark terms, the reality of the two-tier faculty system that has come to define...

Trump’s War on Public Knowledge: The Dismantling of ERIC and the Erosion of Educational Access

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When teachers search for help with lesson plans, parents look for answers on school policies, or researchers dig into the roots of America’s...