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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

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: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

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Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

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.


Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

.@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 insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…


Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

In the new issue of @AAUP Academe -- Academic Freedom "Rising Antidemocracy, Declining Academic Freedom, and Challenges to Evidence-Based Knowledge" By Eve Darian-Smith aaup.org/JAF15/rising-a…


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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/events/2024/fr…

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: labornotes.org/events/2024/fr…



Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

📢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? labornotes.org/events/2024/fr…

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: labornotes.org/events/2024/fr…

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Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

On Thursday, October 17th join our union and many others to discuss the future or higher education!

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Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

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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Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…


Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

“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.” politi.co/3XtC4YB


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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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Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

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:  youtu.be/-X8XlIRAihw?fe…


Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

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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Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

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? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…



Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

"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 youtube.com/watch?v=7oKZEr…


Jennifer Mittelstadt @[email protected] Reposted

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. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…


@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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