Higher Education

Victory Rally After Reinstatement Of SJSU Professor Dr. Sang Hea Kil

July 3, 2026 Tim Phan, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Censorship, Higher Education, New McCarthyism, Palestine, Retaliation

San Jose , CA – On June 30, San Jose State University Professor Dr. Sang Hea Kil of the Justice Studies Department held a victory rally after her arbitration allowing her to return go with full backpay. This came after a protracted campaign where she bravely resisted her firing due to her vocal disapproval of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine. She was the first tenured professor to be fired from a public university for speaking against the genocide in the wake of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. At the rally outside of the Martin Luther King Library, Dr. Kil triumphantly exclaimed, “This is an incredible victory for free speech, academic freedom, student protest, freedom of assembly and pro-Palestine speech on campus and beyond.”

Why Are Climate Activists Protesting A Climate Conference?

June 30, 2026 Abi Perrin, The Canary. Resist! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Sponsorship, United Kingdom (UK)

Activists disrupted the opening of the Exeter Climate Forum conference on 29 June 2026 in protest of the event being sponsored by Howden – an insurance company whose clients include fossil fuel companies. It’s a warm Monday morning, which feels like a relief after the past week of baking heat. It’s also the first day of a three-day climate conference at the University of Exeter. As the meeting gets underway, I hear faint drumming from outside. Then, a group holding banners reading “Stop Insuring Climate Chaos” and “Howden Insurance: Climate Criminals” take centre stage.

The Hidden Architecture Of Knowledge: Intelligence, Academia And The Shaping Of Power

June 28, 2026 David Price, Counter Punch. Educate! Academic Freedom, Higher Education, National Security State, Soft Power

One of the central questions guiding my recent work on intelligence, knowledge production and state power concerns undeclared interests and relationship of research funders. Most of the questions I pursue grew out of my efforts to understand the implications of a mid-1970s finding by the US Senate Church Committee (so named, because it was chaired by Senator Frank Church) that the CIA’s covert funding of US international scholarship was “massive.” The committee established that about half the grants for international research during the 1960s (excluding grants made by Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations—which the report found had their own CIA ties) were secretly funded or influenced by the CIA. This passage got me searching for documents that could substantiate how this system worked.

Arizona State University Launches Program On Co-op Education

June 28, 2026 Miles Hadfield, Coop News. Create! Arizona, Cooperatives, Economics, Higher Education, New Economy

The US National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) has partnered with Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business to launch the Foundations of Cooperative Enterprise Series(CES), a professional development programme for co-operative employees, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders. NCBA says the programme combines its co-operative expertise with the “academic excellence” and workforce education capabilities of Arizona State University, “creating a flexible learning experience that helps participants build practical knowledge while balancing the demands of their day-to-day responsibilities”.

The Student Tenant Union Movement Is Spreading To Appalachia

June 18, 2026 Anabel Peterman, Next City. Organize! Higher Education, Student Activism, Tenant Rights, Tenant Unions

For Morehead State University students Allison ‘Al’ Belter and Madi Reffitt, residents of the university dorms aren’t just students: As people who pay a property owner to inhabit a residence, they’re tenants, too. With tenant unionization picking up steam in Kentucky and around the country, students organizing through Kentucky Tenants’ MSU chapter are calling on the university to provide better living conditions for their tenants. The student organization is bringing its demands to Morehead State’s Board of Regents this summer, after months of preparing their campaign.

Charges Against U Of M Eight Threaten Entire Movement For Palestine

June 12, 2026 Kyle Thibodeau, Left Voice. Resist! FBI Raid, Higher Education, Legal System, Michigan, Palestine

On the morning of June 10 the FBI raided homes and arrested eight activists associated with the pro-Palestine movement. Local police and the University of Michigan aided the FBI with their investigation ahead of the raids. The activists are facing several charges including “conspiracy to transmit a threat,” with some facing up to 20 years in prison if convicted. This raid and the extreme charges are a tactic to suppress solidarity with Palestine. A fully armed squad of federal government agents raided the homes of college students who spoke out against a live-streamed genocide.

Higher Education Must Not Become A Research Arm Of Militarized Power

June 11, 2026 Henry A. Giroux, Truthout. Strategize! Academic Freedom, Higher Education, Research, weapons

What happens to higher education when institutions dedicated to critical thought increasingly align themselves with the logics of war, surveillance, and national security? Unless we mount an organized resistance, we may viscerally experience the answer to this question all too soon. We are already watching this transformation play out in both the U.S. and Canada as universities face growing pressure to align their missions, research agendas, and pedagogical practices with the values, priorities, and imperatives of a society increasingly organized around the logic of war.

NYU Strike Showed How To Reverse Downward Spiral In Higher Education

June 9, 2026 Peter Cole, In These Times. Strategize! Higher Education, New York City (NYC), New York University, Strikes, Unions

While teaching and conducting research can be wonderful experiences, working conditions in higher education have become increasingly horrible. In the United States, massive state disinvestment coinciding with 50 years of neoliberalism has resulted in both soaring tuition costs for students and large-scale budget cuts to universities. As a result, faculty teaching loads have increased while wages have stagnated. Meanwhile, university administrators across the country have replaced full-time and permanent faculty with insecure, part-time positions, and rarely replaced faculty who retired or moved.

Who Will Defend The Public University?

June 7, 2026 Laurie Adkin, Canadian Dimension. Create! Book Review, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Public Universities

The contributors to Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities, edited by Marc Spooner and James McNinch, identify many contemporary pressures on institutions of higher learning in capitalist countries, drawing mostly on the experiences of universities in the Anglo-American sphere. Among the issues discussed in this book are the neoliberal and managerial restructuring of universities; the conservative backlash against demands for social justice; the colonial and imperialist foundations of Western universities and the dominance of English-language publications in global science, and; the argument that universities should maintain “institutional neutrality” with regard to social and political phenomena like the genocide being committed in Palestine by Israel.The contributors to Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities, edited by Marc Spooner and James McNinch, identify many contemporary pressures on institutions of higher learning in capitalist countries, drawing mostly on the experiences of universities in the Anglo-American sphere. Among the issues discussed in this book are the neoliberal and managerial restructuring of universities; the conservative backlash against demands for social justice; the colonial and imperialist foundations of Western universities and the dominance of English-language publications in global science, and; the argument that universities should maintain “institutional neutrality” with regard to social and political phenomena like the genocide being committed in Palestine by Israel.

Here Is Why We Sanctioned Hillel At The New School

June 5, 2026 Ryder Glickman, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Higher Education, Hillel, Israel, Student Activism, Zionism

Two years after University administrators and state actors destroyed the Gaza Solidarity Encampments, expelled and deported students, and smeared anyone protesting against the genocidal Zionist state and in support of a liberated Palestine, the student movement is developing new tactics. One of these tactics involves challenging, exposing, and removing Hillel from our campuses. The New School, where I was chair of the Student Senate, was the first example. It should not be the last. In May 2026, the New School’s Student Senate sanctioned its chapter of Hillel, a Zionist organization that operates on 850 campuses worldwide, by designating them “Not in Good Standing,” suspending all funding and collaboration.

Portland Community College Workers Defeat Budget Cuts

June 1, 2026 Michelle DuBarry, Labor Notes. Strategize! Higher Education, Portland, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Two unions representing 2,300 workers at Portland Community College went on strike for three weeks in March. It was the first-ever community college strike in Oregon, and a rare wall-to-wall strike where both educators and support staff walked out together. The strike ended in resounding victory. We won wage increases and protection against cuts to course offerings, and defeated the administration’s attempt to impose budget cuts on the backs of workers and students. Six weeks after we reached a tentative agreement, PCC President Dr. Adrien Bennings resigned.

First-Ever Bargaining Compact Unites Higher Ed Unions

May 3, 2026 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. Organize! Black Student Unions, Collective bargaining, Higher Education, Worker Rights

When East Coast members of Higher Education Labor United (HELU) got together in January, they set their sights on developing a national plan to improve working conditions for university and college faculty and staff, enhance learning conditions for students, and build lasting partnerships with local communities to promote the common good. Together, they drafted a document called the Amherst Compact. While it is largely aspirational, it commits HELU to working “to coordinate bargaining priorities that raise the floor for workers of all job categories across the most densely-unionized region of the U.S.,” the Northeast.

Civil Disobedience Of Copyright Keeps Science Going

April 28, 2026 Kit Walsh, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Educate! Higher Education, Open Access, Right to Information, Science

Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disobedience to ensure that students and scholars have the books they need and to preserve swaths of culture from being lost forever. Reputable research generally follows a familiar pattern: Scientific articles are written by scholars based on their research—often with public funding. Those articles are then peer-reviewed by other scholars in their fields and revisions are made according to those comments.

As Universities Agree To Immigration Enforcement On Campus, Students Fight Back

April 19, 2026 Julia Luz Betancourt, Prism. Resist! Higher Education, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Student Activism

She was beginning her spring semester as a second-year law student and paralegal when she received the news: The immigration clinic where she volunteered would have to stop all work, a demand directly from the Trump administration. The White House issued a stop-work order on Feb. 18, 2025, cutting off aid to federally funded unaccompanied children programs (UCPs) across the U.S. The programs, which provide legal representation to migrant youth who cross the border alone or do not have family in the U.S., were one of the current Trump administration’s first targets.

Free Yousof Azizi!

April 17, 2026 The Yousof Azizi Defense Committee, Popular Resistance. Resist! Free Speech, Higher Education, ICE, Immigrant Rights, State Repression, Yousof Azizi

Yousof Azizi, a final-year PhD student in public policy at the University of Virginia, was arrested on the morning of Tuesday, April 14, in front of his home by ICE forces, and up to this moment he has not been allowed to meet with his lawyer. ICE officials have informed him that he will soon be transferred to a detention camp for undocumented immigrants in Louisiana. This arrest is highly questionable, because the duty of ICE forces is to detain undocumented immigrants, while Mr. Azizi holds a valid visa and absolutely no deficiencies exist in his visa record.

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