Aloha UHPA Members,
Passing along a message from AFT President, Randi Weingarten, and AAUP President, Todd Wolfson, inviting you to attend a webinar on Monday, September 8th at 11 am-12 pm HST for the launch of an AAUP/AFT campaign to defend higher education.
Mahalo
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We’re writing to invite you to participate in the virtual launch of a powerful new campaign uniting the full strength of the AFT and American Association of University Professors to protect higher education from authoritarian attacks.
Together, we represent the largest and most powerful force of higher education workers in the United States. Our members teach classes that transform students’ lives and run labs that result in lifesaving medical research. We create opportunities and strengthen communities.
But this crucial work is now under siege. Devastating funding cuts are halting medical breakthroughs and slashing support for students—all as political retribution from an administration that wants to control knowledge.
In this moment of profound crisis, our collective power carries a responsibility not only to defend our colleges and universities from sustained political and economic attacks, but to advance a bold, collective vision of higher education as a democratic, accessible and transformative public good.
That’s why we are mobilizing a national movement—one that defends higher education both in the streets and at the ballot box, and one that paves a pathway to opportunity for all students.
Please join us on Monday, Sept. 8, at 5 p.m. Eastern time, for the virtual launch of our new campaign, Higher Ed: The Economic Engine that Saves Lives and Builds Futures.
On the call, we will share how we are organizing to protect our members’ vital work, defend the future of higher education and ensure that every student has the chance to thrive. RSVP for the Sept. 8 virtual launch of the new campaign.
Let’s show the country what the higher education community can do when we organize together.
In unity,
Randi Weingarten
AFT President
Todd Wolfson
AAUP President