Higher Education

“We Deserve a Living Wage:” on the Limits of the New Temple Grad Worker Contract
A graduate worker at Temple reflects on the limits and strengths of the new contract won in the recent strike.
Anonymous Temple Graduate Worker
March 31, 2023CUNY Administration Cracks Down on Student and Worker-Run Food Pantry
Students and workers opened "The People's Pantry" seven weeks ago as part of a broader anti-austerity campaign at CUNY, leading to several direct confrontations with the administration.
Olivia Wood
March 19, 2023Temple’s Grad Worker Strike Ends with Important Victories
The last report on the strike from a union teacher at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Jason Koslowski
March 17, 2023Dispatches from the Pickets: Temple Grad Worker Strike Escalates
Things are heating up in the grad worker strike at Temple University in Philadelphia. A report from the picket line by a union teacher.
Jason Koslowski
March 2, 2023Temple’s Grad Students Say “Hell No” to Bad Deal from University Bosses
Now that Temple’s grad workers have rejected the deal, the fight continues.
Jason Koslowski
February 22, 2023Dispatches from the Picket Line: 2,000 Temple Students Walk Out to Support Grad Strike
A Temple adjunct reports from inside the walkout on Wednesday, February 15.
Jason Koslowski
February 16, 2023Yet Another Academic is Being Attacked for Criticizing Israel: Education Unions Need to Fight Back
Our unions must not only defend professors who speak out about Israeli apartheid and brutality, but should take a stance against Zionism, a movement fundamentally based on racism and oppression.
Kalen Wheeler
February 10, 2023Fordham University’s Resident Assistants Unionize
Two days after the faculty union ratified its second contract, student workers announced there’s a new union in town.
Olivia Wood
February 9, 2023Higher Ed Strike Fever: This Morning, Temple’s Grad Students Walked off the Job
TUGSA, organizing Temple University’s graduate students, walked out on strike this morning. Winning will take bottom-up organizing from Temple’s unions and undergraduates, shoulder to shoulder with TUGSA on the pickets.
Jason Koslowski
January 31, 2023Temple’s Undergrads Are Taking On the University Bosses
At Temple University, undergraduate students are joining the ranks of higher ed workers who are fighting back.
Jason Koslowski
January 30, 2023