AFT Higher Education

05/01/2026

𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗪𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗕𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧! ✊
3PM – NY Metro Coalition for Higher Ed May Day Pre-Rally
Meet at The New School, 63 5th Ave (13th and 5th Ave)

4PM – Citywide May Day March
PSC members meet between 4:00-4:30PM by the Garibaldi Statue at the East End of Washington Square Park

➡️ psc-cuny.org/MayDay

04/29/2026

Are you ready for May Day? CFT is mobilizing members across the state to fight back and fight forward!

Check out our Organizing Toolkit and be sure to tag us in your social media posts on May 1! ✊📣

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n_e8r1SoNzIq0pM2sqaIDRJ6FL_J9G_cl7-ssdLJjoY/edit?usp=sharing

04/28/2026

Join the AFT and thousands of workers for a day of civic action on May 1. The AFT is encouraging members to take action by pledging to vote, checking their registration, and finding ways to get involved ahead of upcoming elections.

Check out the toolkit ⤵️
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jR6vPyWnZCUEmeWov96ugJbHldga9_5sfSPg2wbx9Yo/edit?usp=sharing

04/28/2026

Students in Connecticut are fighting for the funds their colleges, and their fellow students, NEED.

"Connecticut must fully fund the PACT/Finish Line Scholarship and the CT Student Loan Reimbursement program. Students are refusing to be silenced. We refuse to be treated as symbols of revenue. We demand education to be treated as a human right. " Check the comments for the full post.

04/27/2026

Can't say it plainer than that. Full story in comments.

“This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (California), the ranking Democrat on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. “The NSB is apolitical. It advises the president on the future of NSF. It unfortunately is no surprise a president who has attacked NSF from day one would seek to destroy the board that helps guide the foundation.”

04/22/2026

A great summary of our blueprint launch event in Austin last week. Full story below.

"Professors spoke of censoring themselves out of fear of retaliation if they said the wrong thing. Students spoke of their desire to be heard in university decisions impacting the classes and programs available to them.

'If you are fighting against the assaults on higher education and trying to make the case about how important it is to the next generation of students,” Weingarten said. “Why not go right to the place where the fight is?"

04/22/2026

Busy tonight?

Higher ed workers and students are rising up on May Day!

Join us tomorrow, April 22 at 8pm ET to hear how students higher ed workers and students are organizing for freedom, affordability, and safety all across the country.

Bernie Sanders will join us and speak in solidarity--you don't want to miss it.

Register at link in comments.

04/21/2026

What is academic labor? Who performs the type of knowledge work we call academic labor, of what does it consist, and what might its appropriate aims be? Join us for a special webinar on Tuesday, April 28, at 3 p.m. ET, for conversations between Alissa Karl (SUNY Brockport) and Frederico Menino (The New School) about the theme of the winter issue of Academe, between David A. Banks (University at Albany, SUNY) and Katie Rodger (University of California, Davis) about the academic underclass, and between Jesús Fernández (Higher Education Labor United) and Michael Ziegler (Brown University) about graduate student labor.

Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FyTI5671RZix9n0wt6y8xg.

04/14/2026

Congratulations to UConn-AAUP / AFT 6746 on their new contract! Our members fight for students and their right to an education every day!

04/14/2026