Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
After the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini—a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman killed while in “morality” police custody—thousands of people have been injured, killed, or imprisoned during the ongoing anti-government protests in Iran. Some are students from Sharif University and the University of Tehran, two of the country’s prestigious academic institutions. Students were attacked with tear gas, …
Whereas on September 26, 2022, the Rutgers administration announced, effective October 1, that “face coverings will no longer be required in indoor teaching spaces and libraries.” Whereas Rutgers University employs approximately 22,000-plus faculty and staff, as well as hundreds of graduate teaching assistants to teach approximately 70,000-plus students, all with varying levels of risk for …
To: Frances Corner, Warden, GoldsmithsCC: Dinah Caine, Chair of Council, GoldsmithsDes Freedman, Media, Communications and Cultural StudiesGholam Khiabany, Media, Communications and Cultural StudiesLucy Mercer, Co-president, Goldsmiths University and College Union We are writing as president and general vice president of Rutgers AAUP, the full-time faculty, graduate worker, postdoctoral associate, and counselor’s union at Rutgers University, …
Rutgers AAUP-AFT stands unequivocally for the right to abortion. We are angered by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and, with it, the constitutional right to abortion. This decision will have deadly consequences for women and people seeking abortion care around the United States. Already, nine states have banned abortion since Friday, and numerous …
The more than 6,000 members of Rutgers AAUP-AFT Local 6323, the union of full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and EOF counselors at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, stand in solidarity with the UNITE HERE Local 54 service workers at Atlantic City casinos. Rutgers employees and organizations have traditionally provided business to these …
Dear President Biden: On behalf of the more than 6,000 graduate student workers, full-time faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates, and EOF counselors of Rutgers AAUP-AFT Local 6323 at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, we write to request a meeting with you regarding your administration’s plans to end the student debt crisis. Millions of American …
WHEREAS some 45 million people in the US bear an outstanding student debt of $1.73 trillion, nearly double the outstanding debt of just one decade ago, and WHEREAS the student debt crisis is a faculty, grad worker, and postdoc debt crisis, and WHEREAS nearly half of today’s educators took out student loans to pay for …
Whereas Rutgers University has made the advancing of diversity, equity, and inclusion a key strategic priority; and Whereas in a nation that has for centuries struggled with issues of racial inequity and injustice, many students do not have adequate knowledge of BIPOC and LGBTQI history and the policies that contributed to inequities, Rutgers faculty have …