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Guiding faculty to student debt relief

As student loan debt soars nationally, the AFT is reaching out to adjunct faculty who often have staggering debt and not enough income to cover it. At a webinar organized jointly with the Student Borrower Protection Center and the American Association of U ...

Florida humanities faculty fear for the profession

When a professor and union leader learned his contract would not be renewed at Lake-Sumter State College in Florida, his union stepped right up, not just to try to save his job—which was all but tenured—but also to protect the social science courses he tau ...

Educator health and well-being campaign kicks off

The AFT launched an educator health and well-being campaign on Sept. 20, offering a workshop full of practical, education-related techniques to manage the stress educators face—even as they try to help students manage their own stress. The multiyear campai ...

AFT Announces $100,000 Investment in Faculty Effort to Help College Students in Need

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Union Highlights

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Indebted No More

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AAUP’S Mulvey and AFT’s Weingarten on Higher Ed Provisions in Build Back Better Act

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Moral Policy = Good Economics

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Joint Statement from AAUP President Irene Mulvey and AFT President Randi Weingarten on AAUP-AFT Partnership Talks

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Member town hall showcases ‘Back to School for All’ campaign

As students and staff head back to school, AFT activists gathered Monday evening, Aug. 23, for a telephone town hall with AFT President Randi Weingarten. Teachers have done everything society has asked of them to contend with the pandemic, she said, but be ...