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.
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
“The day of peace is dawning” — Eugene V. Debs
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.
Resistance is everywhere
California Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign the ‘radical agreement’ Trump has proposed to impose cuts to departments, students and speech. He vows that schools that sign Trump's 'compact' will 'instantly' lose state funding.
Public pressure saves Kimmel’s show
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.
Monster time
In addition to the grants already defunded, the Trump administration has proposed setting a 15-percent cap on indirect cost reimbursements, leaving a gap many public colleges and universities would be unable to cover, the advocates said.
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