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Public higher ed for all!
Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed
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This March nearly 1,000 non-tenure faculty at NYU went out on two-day strike — and came out w a strong first contract. Following more than a year of negotiations, the union — Contract Faculty United, affiliated w United Auto Workers — won a minimum $14,000 raise for all members.
The elimination of shared governance at universities is directly connected to the consolidation of power and degradation of democratic institutions that we’re seeing at the national level
Entrenched policies not in control of institutions or state systems. Combined fed/st higher ed policies tied to taxes, allocations, dependence on lending.
One source of historical understanding:
Indentured Students: How Govt-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt by E Shermer
By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.
Opinion | ‘More Everything Forever’ and Universities as Counterweight to the Dominant AI Narrative
Why we should understand what tech billionaires believe. By Joshua Kim: https://bit.ly/4eacwIa
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Manuscript full of opportunities for analysis of gender, race, and concepts of "civilization." But is also an early critique of the increasing influence of commerce and finance over higher ed.
'Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men' (1918)
Trump’s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
Gift article, with link to comment portal.
The elimination of subsidizes loans would make the debt to attend college cost more in fees and interest rates and have fewer limits on deferrals and wait times after degree completion.
Devastating!!!!!!!!!
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@aaup.org
Mainstream media catching on to what faculty have known for decades -- the erosion of labor conditions leads to loss of power in the institution, which leads to collapse of shared governance and academic freedom and decline of academic associations and presses.
@aaup.org
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Thu -- today!
Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed
One concrete step @governor.ny.gov should take in this direction is funding 100% of the contractual increases she negotiates for New York’s public higher education workforce.
"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself."
working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...
expand opportunity, and power economic mobility for students and families. www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/...
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“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
It's happening 🚨
House GOP representatives are about to introduce a bill that would completely eliminate subsidized student loans.
They are trying to make it impossible to go to college unless you can afford to pay for it upfront.
Can the Alliance for Higher Education help defend colleges and universities under attack?
Join us Thursday as we meet the group's president, Michael Gavin, to discuss.
georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
It's absolutely infuriating that blue-state governors do not see this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch their schools into the stratosphere.
And I don't mean that in a greedy way. I mean that they could actively work to save US higher ed AND make their schools even better.
Anna Kornbluh
Kathleen Bachynski
SUNY - The State University of New York
“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
Debt Collective 🟥
Bryan Alexander
The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.
