Apply for paid internships/organizing fellowships
The Rutgers AAUP-AFT enthusiastically encourages both undergraduate and graduate students to apply for our paid positions that promote activism and empowerment on campus.
Graduate Student Organizing Fellowships
Graduate students who are TAs and GAs are encouraged to apply to build the strength of the union. This organizing fellowship requires 6 hours per week and is a paid position. The goal is to convince everyone represented by AAUP-AFT who isn’t a member to become one.
Organizing fellowships are available most semesters and during the summer teaching sessions. Organizing fellowships are open to any union member and, therefore, might be especially of interest to graduate students who are working as Teaching Assistants or Graduate Assistants, although full-time faculty or part-time faculty are also eligible to apply.
The organizing fellowships are directly related to organizing and mobilizing employees eligible to be union members in one of the bargaining units of the AAUP-AFT. Gradute students who are or have been Teaching Assistants or Graduate Assistants are encouraged to apply. Your time is value so the union is willing to pay you for 6 hours/week of recruiting new members to join the union and energizing those TA-GA who are already members when we need to negotiate new contracts or protest wrongful actions taken by the administration that impacts our members.
Request information and/or apply to any internship or organizing fellowship by contacting the Rutgers AAUP-AFT office:
Phone: 732-964-1000 or via e-mail: aaup@rutgersaaup.org