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A political education and collective visioning session from the Debt Collective. We’re not just fighting to cancel student debt. We’re fighting for higher education as a universal, reparative public good. Free access to higher education combats authoritarianism and repairs past historical harms. But how will we get there? Join us for a powerful political education and collective visioning session. Register Here.

Join the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom for a session on mapping the landscape of resources and allies in the fight against the sweeping repression that began years ago and has metastasized at an alarming rate at colleges and universities nationwide. What started as right-wing attacks on DEI and affirmative action have seen largely bi-partisan support in the crackdown on advocacy and action in support of Palestinian liberation. We invite you all to collaborate as we share this project in process and hear what resources would be most valuable to our comrades in higher education and the best ways to make that information useful. Register here.

In this workshop, core organizers of the Sanctuary Campus Network (SCN) will focus on the why and how of sanctuary campuses in this political moment. We will briefly review the challenges of this moment, with the state and university crackdowns on anti-war protests attacking the ability to organize, and strategies for organizing under these conditions. We will discuss why and how sanctuary campuses must be as capacious as possible, organizing to protect the many people who are targeted and working together with other branches of the resistance in migrant justice, gender justice, anti-war movements, and beyond. Register here.

Today, higher education in the U.S. is subject to an unprecedented wave of attacks from external as well as internal sources. This panel will identify several of those sources and suggest ways to combat them. Among others, topics to be addressed include what we might learn from the labor movement about how to resist the finance-sector executives who dominate many governing boards; the autocratic legal form of the American academy and how it might be reconstituted; and the failure of strategies aimed at securing compromise solutions with the university’s rulers as well as what we should demand now. Register here.

Debt increasingly rules our colleges and universities. In this workshop, members of the Coalition Against Campus Debt and authors of the book Lend and Rule will share tools for revealing the debt on your campus, connecting institutional debt to student debt, and organizing against both. Register here.

Debt increasingly rules our colleges and universities. In this workshop, members of the Coalition Against Campus Debt and authors of the book Lend and Rule will share tools for revealing the debt on your campus, connecting institutional debt to student debt, and organizing against both. Register here.

In this workshop, Backer will narrate the story of researching university bonds amidst a student housing crisis, specifically unearthing certain histories of neoliberal policies pointing to administrators’ manufacturing a crisis in public student housing. Register here.

Join us for a one-hour workshop on ICE policing tactics and strategies, and what to know about constitutional and other rights. Presenters will include attorneys and organizers who have decades long experience on these issues. Register here.

Karma R. Chavez, Executive Committee, AAUP Chapter of UT Austin will discuss local and statewide organizing in Texas from 2023-2025 as Republican legislators, with the support of compliant administrators, have sought to completely dismantle public higher education as we know it. Chavez will discuss the importance of keeping several “pillars” connected in advocacy–Palestine and student protests, faculty governance, academic freedom, DEI, and tenure. She will detail the successes and failures of faculty and student advocacy and facilitate a robust discussion with participants about how these lessons may apply in other locations. The assumption of this workshop is that Texas is the testing ground for what is coming to all states, red and blue. Register here.

On April 17 we will have a livestream on our website of NYU AAUP/PSC/AAUP-sponsored rally at 4 p.m. ET/ 1 p.m. PT in Foley Square in Manhattan, following a planned march from Washington Square to Foley Square, beginning at 3pm. Livestream link.

Please join CAHE on Thursday 17 April, 5pm EST for our Day of Action Palestine Webinar, featuring scholars and activists Rabab Abdulhadi, Andrew Ross, and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard.  At CAHE’s flagship Palestine Caucus event during its National Day of Action for Higher Education, Professors Abdulhadi, Ross, and Willoughby-Herard discuss the Gaza solidarity movement on their campuses and around the country and chart a path towards a Palestinian liberation to come in light of the redoubled challenges we are facing during the second Trump administration.  To be followed by facilitated discussion and Q&A. Register here.

Join Common Notions authors for a brief and lively conversation as they discuss some key strategic questions confronting us today on the terrain of public higher education and its horizons, essentially: what is to be defended and what is to be developed beyond it—and how? And are there lessons for coalitions in this moment and from an internationalist perspective about what militant education means in times of crisis and struggle? What are the real possibilities for an anticolonial education in colonial capitalist university system? You can watch live on YouTube and register here.

 In this webinar, the Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Council will present on the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther.” This companion policy document to the better-known “Project 2025” outlines a plan to criminalize and dismantle the Palestine solidarity movement–a project that the Trump administration is currently enacting, through threats against universities as spaces of dissent, and through the use of the immigration system to attack the movement’s leaders.  Register here.

This Teach In will feature leading voices in the fightback for a Free Higher Ed. It will provide analysis and ideas of key issues taken up by the Day of Action: attacks on campus workers; organizing every campus union; fighting for academic freedom and free speech; building power against University governing boards and trustees; speaking out for Palestine; education and debt; higher ed and racial justice. Teach In Speakers: Todd Wolfson, AAUP president, Levin Kim, Higher Education Labor United, Lara Deeb, professor of anthropology, Scripps College, Leila Kawar, University of Michigan AAUP, Sean Malloy, UC Merced/California Faculty Association, Dr. Cathy Cohen, Scholars for Social Justice, Barbara Madeloni Labor Notes/Massachusetts Teachers Association, Moderator. Register here.