A post-strike coalition at The New School has dreams of transforming the university and higher education more broadly.
Adjunct faculty at the New School in New York City enter their second week of a strike. The university advertises itself as socially conscious but has not raised adjunct pay since 2018, resulting in an effective 18% pay cut adjusted for inflation.
From healthcare to Hollywood, workers are demanding higher wages, fighting cuts and seeking better safety and conditions.
University of California student researchers have announced they have union authorization cards from a super-majority of 17,000 researchers throughout the UC system — one of the largest union drives in recent US history. We spoke to three.
The outgoing leader of NYC's leftmost union local looks back on long struggle to transform CUNY.
United Academics of the University of New Mexico won the right to establish a union, overcoming the entrenched opposition of the administration.
In the neoliberal university, intellectual labor has largely become inscribed into the machine of knowledge production. We need to think of new ways of resisting.
[M]inority candidates will, with some frequency, come with unconventional political backgrounds and views as judged from majority perspectives. Regentally imposed political tests which assault the academic freedom of all will fall upon such candidates with unusual severity. (Leon Letwin's letter in defense of Angela Davis in 1969, relevant today as we defend faculty members such as Steven Salaita.)
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