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Higher Education
AFT and the American Association of University Professors are fighting to make college affordable and accessible for all. Nobody should have to mortgage their future in order to learn. We need colleges and universities that are central to a strong economy, lifesaving research and a vibrant democracy. These belong to all of us.
Together, we must demand the public investment and shared commitment that higher education and our democracy deserve.
Defending Higher Education
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The cost of college must not continue to be a barrier to accessing higher education, and we must redouble our efforts to further ensure that resources are directed to instruction, support for our students, and research.
Debate, discussion and open inquiry are essential to high-quality higher education as a public good, but a raft of repressive laws and policies aim to shut down access to knowledge and ban entire fields of study, undermining our intellectual freedom and other First Amendment freedoms
The AFT believes improving job security for faculty and staff and working toward the ending of contingency is the path forward to creating a better system of higher education
AFT Higher Education is committed to helping our affiliates ensure that decisions about AI in instruction remain in the hands of instructors, that our work remains our own, that administrators do not sign away our data privacy rights, and that computer systems do not replace our committed, expert educators
Free speech and academic freedom are foundational to higher education. Our approach centers on protecting expression while ensuring campuses remain safe and inclusive for all.
The AFT is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in higher education. In the wake of anti-DEI legislation that has been proposed and enacted into law across the country, we are standing strong in combating extremist attacks that seek to reverse decades of progress toward racial equity and access to higher education.
Americans know that our strength has always been built on the simple notion that America is a place where many become one.
Antisemitism threatens all of our communities and the core of our democracy.
The AFT believes we must fight for increased investment and public funding for higher education.
Career and technical education is an investment, allowing students to learn and preparing them for good jobs.
