A Landmark Wage Increase at the University of California
Graduate students won a major raise after five weeks on strike. The victory is a product of the militancy that has pushed the union to the vanguard of organized labor in higher ed.
Winter 2024
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The University We Want
Introducing our Fall 2021 special section, “Back to School.”
Higher Education for the 99 Percent
The radical agenda set by the debtors’ campaigns that emerged from Occupy Wall Street have slowly reshaped Democratic Party politics.
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The Turkish government’s crackdown on protests at Boğaziçi University earlier this year has brought together the broadest coalition of AKP opponents since the 2013 Gezi Park protests.
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Graduate student-workers, who are paid on a nine-month schedule, are worried about the summer.
Belabored Stories: Anxiety and Upheaval for Adjunct Professors
Academic instructors who were already underemployed and insecure before the crisis face an uncertain future, with little prospect for federal relief.
There Is Power in a Debtors’ Union
How did we get from two decades of meteoric tuition increases to a moment where democratic socialist elected officials are pushing free higher education and complete student debt discharge? The short answer: organizing.
The End of the World as We Know It?
If the humanities can’t produce thinkers who can get us out of this mess, they are still producing some of the best commentators on where it has come from and where it threatens to take us.
Free College, Strings Attached
Two years ago, New York implemented a program promising free tuition. But policies that don’t offer support to part-time students only deepen inequality in higher education.
The Plutocracy Comes to Campus
When undergrads challenged a rich donor close to Donald Trump, his biggest defenders were their own university’s leaders.
A Strike Against Trumpism at Columbia
Faced with the unionization of its graduate workers, Columbia University has aligned itself not with free speech and enlightenment, but with the Trump administration.
Britain: Universities on Strike
British university lecturers are in their fourth week of a militant, historic strike—taking a stand not just against austerity, but for a more humane, democratic higher education system.
Belabored Podcast #124: College Dreams and College Schemes, with Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom talks about her new book, Lower Ed, and why the expansion of the for-profit college industry is a labor issue.
Call Now: What It’s Like to Enroll in a For-Profit College
For-profit colleges use a unique model of recruitment to appeal to potential students who are short on time.
Undergraduate Unions: The Next Frontier?
It’s not just graduate workers who are pushing the envelope of campus organizing. Undergraduates like the dining hall workers at Iowa’s Grinnell College are finding creative new ways to win better wages and working conditions, too.
