Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected]
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@[email protected] **Historian politics, the state & movements in the US. @RUHistoryDept, @SFNDHE, series editor Power, Politics & the World @PennPress
Joined November 2015
It's time for systemic reform in higher education. Here @SuzMKahn @lisalevenstein and I propose how a smart stimulus for Higher Education can advance equity & democracy.#HigherEd #TrueNewDeal
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Join the @sfndhe forum with national leaders of HELU, @AAUP @aaup_utAustin @isaac_kamola and more for a discussion of how to fight for #highered in the next four years and beyond.
Virtual forum among higher ed leaders from across the country. Thu 12/5 7:00pm Eastern @HigherEdLabor @AAUP @AFTHigherEd Sign up and help spread the word about the event. Here is the link to register: https://t.co/JfaZxMZgmy
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That university presses manage to keep at things even though academic libraries have mostly stopped buying books and piracy is widely seen as a social good may seem like a miracle, but a lot of it comes down to precariously employed workers doing three times as many jobs.
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.@insidehighered profiled the new leadership team @AAUP. We're building a movement to transform higher ed. Honored to work with leaders from @HigherEdLabor @AFTunion @CWAUnion @NEA @SEIU @SFNDHE @UAW @ScholarsForSJ @massteacher @uaw_4811 @ruaaup @AFSCME
https://t.co/lf7FyTh6Zn
insidehighered.com
Todd Wolfson is pushing the century-old American Association of University Professors to fight higher ed’s detractors and “organize every campus.” But critics say the venerable organization is...
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In the new issue of @AAUP Academe -- Academic Freedom "Rising Antidemocracy, Declining Academic Freedom, and Challenges to Evidence-Based Knowledge" By Eve Darian-Smith https://t.co/QRbXgVYcWc
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Eve Darian-Smith uses the example of Albert Einstein's emigration from Europe to highlight the challenges of pursuing evidence-based knowledge under authoritarian regimes.
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Wondering if the budget cuts at your college or university may be driven by institutional debt? Not sure what that would mean or what you could do about it? Join us tonight!
labornotes.org
Colleges closing. Departments and courses eliminated. Austerity driving debt and debt driving austerity. Public higher education’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors.
Tonight! Tuesday 10/29 at 8pm ET: Join the authors of "Lend & Rule: Fighting the Financialization of Public Universities," to learn more about how academic workers can organize against budget cuts driven by institutional debt:
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📢Tonight on Zoom! Colleges closing. Departments & courses eliminated. Austerity driving debt & debt driving austerity. Public higher ed’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions &actors. How do we organize to free public higher education? https://t.co/JCoJPIaxYN
labornotes.org
Free online event tomorrow (Tuesday, 10/29, 8 p.m. ET): Join the authors of "Lend and Rule: Fighting the Financialization of Public Universities," to learn more about how academic workers can organize against cuts driven by institutional debt: https://t.co/DHkkSwxSyH
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On Thursday, October 17th join our union and many others to discuss the future or higher education!
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The AAUP Executive Committee condemns the Wesleyan administration's use of Middletown police against peaceful student protests. @wesleyanargus @wesleying @wes_USE @wesuslac
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CALLING ALL AHA MEMBERS NEED by 10/1 Signature! AHA leaders have discussed higher ed crisis for years, but this resolut urges concrete steps for increas govt funds that protects workers - faculty, staff, stud Need 2% of membership (about 225 people) @AAUP
https://t.co/2fywKrArxx
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BACKGROUND: The escalating crisis in higher education, including most recently the plans to attack democratic higher education endorsed by conservatives for Project 2025, undermines historians’...
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“We call on leaders at the national level to join our struggle to reclaim public higher ed for the public good by fully funding our institutions to ensure that higher ed can be a place for learning, training, and discovery.” https://t.co/eupZgiHKvE
politico.com
Labor leaders are gathering in Philadelphia today for a public attempt to influence the broad strokes of Vice President Kamala Harris’ higher education agenda.
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TOMORROW: an unprecedented coalition of 10 national labor unions representing millions of higher ed workers will announce a collective vision of how a Kamala Harris administration can ensure our nation’s democratic future through a renewed federal investment in higher education.
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Recording of virtual forum: Shared Governance: How Anti-Democratic Boards Are Destroying Universities and What We Can Do Thanks to panelists: Timothy Kaufman-Osborn with Jennifer Ruth #HigherEd Co-sponsored w @HigherEdLabor @UCWGA3265 Here's the video: https://t.co/KVyjEHnAha
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Happening today! #AFTvotes
TOMORROW: an unprecedented coalition of 10 national labor unions representing millions of higher ed workers will announce a collective vision of how a Kamala Harris administration can ensure our nation’s democratic future through a renewed federal investment in higher education.
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If you're an AHA member, please consider signing this petition from @SFNDHE asking the organization to take concrete steps to increase funding for higher ed! We need signatures right now to get this on the AHA's annual meeting agenda! #twitterstorians
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BACKGROUND: The escalating crisis in higher education, including most recently the plans to attack democratic higher education endorsed by conservatives for Project 2025, undermines historians’...
Hey #twitterstorians! If you're a current member of the AHA, could you sign this petition from @SFNDHE asking the AHA to take concrete steps to support increased funding for higher ed that supports higher ed workers?
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"30 years ago, 70% of the faculty in colleges and universities were tenure or tenure-track. Now is the opposite... This adjunctification is part of the corporatization [of higher ed] and it needs to end." @rweingarten, @AFTunion Pres. at
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This is gonna be amazing. I’m very proud of @AAUP, @HigherEdLabor, @AFTunion, @UAW, @CWAUnion @unitehere @SEIU @AFSCME as well as NEA & UE
TOMORROW: an unprecedented coalition of 10 national labor unions representing millions of higher ed workers will announce a collective vision of how a Kamala Harris administration can ensure our nation’s democratic future through a renewed federal investment in higher education.
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The AHA can formalize a commitment to fighting for fair labor in #HigherEd if we ask it to. Please sign the @SFNDHE petition. https://t.co/WgawDHNIss
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BACKGROUND: The escalating crisis in higher education, including most recently the plans to attack democratic higher education endorsed by conservatives for Project 2025, undermines historians’...
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The AHA can formalize a commitment to fighting for fair labor in #HigherEd if we ask it to. Please sign the @SFNDHE petition. https://t.co/WgawDHNIss
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BACKGROUND: The escalating crisis in higher education, including most recently the plans to attack democratic higher education endorsed by conservatives for Project 2025, undermines historians’...
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@twitterstorians, please ask the AHA to put the crisis of fair labor in #HigherEd at the top of its agenda. We have until October 1 to submit this resolution from @SFNDHE. MUST BE CURRENT DUES PAYING AHA member to sign!
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We need to get 2% of current AHA members (about 230 people) to sign by 9/30 to get it on the Business Meeting agenda for the annual meeting in New York in January. But the more who do, the better, to show how important it is for them to take the crisis of the profession seriously
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