Higher Education Faculty & Staff
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Don't double my rate!
Unless Congress takes quick action, interest rates on student loans will double soon, costing the average borrower an additional $1,000 a year. Read how Republican Senators recently blocked a key vote. Find out what you can do to help make college more affordable.
California votes for massive strike
After 22 months of fruitless negotiations, your colleagues in California have authorized what could be the largest ever faculty strike in the nation. Read more.
Help your Florida colleagues save their jobs!
The first victims of the Florida legislature’s wicked $300 million cuts to higher education appear to be students in the flagship university’s highly acclaimed computer science department. What, Florida? You figure you won’t need computer scientists in the 21st century? Read more and sign the faculty petition.
Protect pensions, not corporate tax loopholes
In Kansas, Michigan, Louisiana and elsewhere, state pensions for employees at public colleges and universities are under attack. Learn more.
Stand up for the middle class!
Ask elected officials to close corporate tax loopholes and stand up for the middle class!
Ask elected officials to close corporate tax loopholes and stand up for the middle class!For more news from the NEA Office of Higher Education, go here.
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To learn more about the work of the NEA in higher education and the issues and priorities of our higher education members—faculty, education support professionals, academic professionals and graduate assistants—follow these links to NEA's Higher Education program.
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