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The Gutting of Higher Education – What’s Left of the New School?

Jeremy Varon Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.

How Penn Graduate Workers Got Their Union Contract

Emily Aunins, Sam Schirvar, Guru Shabadi Jacobin
As workers at the University of Pennsylvania pursued a first contract, Trump’s second presidency rendered the administration cowed, the labor board unreliable, and international workers afraid. The antidote: high-participation, worker-led organizing.

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NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised To Strike

Interview with Brendan Hogan Elisabeth Fay Fanny Shum by Sara Wexler Jacobin
After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusing to budge on pay raises and job security protecti

How Education Changed in One Year Under Trump

Nirvi Shah The Hechinger Report
It was almost impossible for the average observer to keep track of the array of changes across colleges and universities, K-12 schools, early education and education research. This is a look at how the education world was transformed.

Zionist McCarthyism Comes for CUNY

Liza Featherstone Jacobin
Not content to torment the Ivy League, Republicans are seeking authoritarian control over working-class public universities like the City University of New York. The latest salvo: allegedly firing four adjuncts for their support of Palestine.
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