Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is creating a blueprint for reactionary control of public colleges and universities that will affect Florida first, but possibly the entire United States if he or another right-wing Republican is elected President in 2024 or after. ...
This past week, after the University of California (UC) Berkeley administration announced plans to close the Anthropology Library, dozens of UC Berkeley students and some faculty occupied it. They stayed overnight from Wednesday to Friday. During the day, students and...
On Wednesday, January 11th, the School Board for the Oakland Unified School District voted to keep the five schools open that were originally under plans to be shut down at the end of this school year. The vote does not change the status of the three schools that were...
In November, an estimated 70,000 researchers, academics and administrators went on strike at 150 different university campuses across the United Kingdom. These strikes are the largest in the history of higher public education in the UK. This struggle has been brewing...
On Monday, November 14th, about 48,000 unionized academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses went on strike. The student workers, who are employed at the 10 UC campuses across the state and are organized in both the United Auto Workers (UAW)...
