Since the formal end of the faculty unionization drive early this year, some of us decided we would continue to fight for changes we had sought through unionization. We organized ourselves into a collective called the Minnesota Higher Education Worker Center. Others have joined us, attracted to this independent, open-ended formation. We are not many,Continue reading “Who We Are and This Newsletter”
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The Criminalization of Student Activism
On Friday May 13, 2016, several students at the University of Minnesota attended a Board of Regents meeting to express our concerns about the skyrocketing costs of tuition. To make our case, a number of us added our names to a list of those who would be granted a 3-minute opportunity to address the BoardContinue reading “The Criminalization of Student Activism”
How the University Works
This is how the Administration of the University of Minnesota operates. At the University of Minnesota, we recently witnessed University leaders uniting expediency and power when the Board of Regents (BOR) rolled out its proposal for changes to the Student Code of Conduct. The language the BOR planned to add was written in a wayContinue reading “How the University Works”
Minnesota Higher Education Worker Center 