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October 12, 2020
A Higher Ed Agenda for the Common Good
Liz Perlman
It is time to re-imagine higher education to end the racialized inequities the current paradigm reinforces and to create more educational opportunities...
Labor Organizing
October 13, 2020
Organizing the Neoliberal University
Lindsay Zafir
The essays in this issue begin to lay out a vision for a broad, coordinated, and powerful movement to reclaim the corporate university. Now it’s up to all...
Labor Organizing
Lindsay Zafir
Lindsay is the editor of The Forge and a former organizer for Local 33-UNITE HERE, the union of graduate teachers and researchers at Yale University.
October 5, 2020
How to Win a Contract in a Pandemic
Sam KlugDennis M. HoganAudrey Massmann
“People are finding it harder and harder to maintain any sort of illusions about…their relationships to these institutions.”
Labor Organizing
October 12, 2020
Fighting for Mental Healthcare in the Ivory Tower
Tif Shen
The crisis of mental health among graduate workers is neither inevitable nor insurmountable.
Tif Shen
Tif Shen completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale in 2017. He organized with the grad workers union, UNITE HERE – Local 33, for most of his time at Yale.
October 5, 2020
UnKoch Everything: Tactical Lessons Toward Structural Transformation
Jasmine Banks
Higher education has never been safe or welcoming for those of us impacted by structural racism. At UnKoch My Campus, we’re learning that to truly “unKoch”...
Labor Organizing
Jasmine Banks
Jasmine Banks (She/Her), is the Executive Director of UnKoch My Campus, a project that is dedicated to pulling back the curtain on dark money donations...
October 5, 2020
The Other College Debt Trap
Corey ShermanLisa Cody
Colleges and universities are real estate. This contradiction provides a framework for workers and students to build power that can resist concessions;...
Lisa Cody
Lisa Cody joined SEIU 1021 as a Researcher in November 2019 after serving in the same position for seven years with SEIU Local 721 in Los Angeles.