DISPATCHES FROM HIGHER ED

Workers in higher education find ourselves both in upsurge, with impressive rates of unionization and strikes, and facing concerted political attacks and attempts at restructuring. This is a time that calls for us to debate strategy high and low and to share tactics and models, whether from heated campaigns or quieter assertions of control at work, that might be picked up and taken further elsewhere. If you work at a college or university and have a dispatch to share, reach out at highered@longhaulmag.com.

INTERVENTIONS

• The Black Box: On The Leverage of Academic Workers
• An Intervention on the Response of Campus Labor to the Federal Funding Freezes

REFLECTIONS

• Field Work: An Experiment on Striking STEM Research at Dartmouth College
• Striking to Win in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 2023 Grad Strike at the University of Michigan
• Strike against Fear? How Columbia Student Workers Responded to Repression in Spring 2025
• The Fight for Fifty: The Campaign for 50 Percent Appointments at UC San Diego
• Old Formulas, New Playbook: Building a Striking Department at Boston University

RESOURCES

• A Guide to Department and Lab Meetings
• A Guide to Power Mapping for Academic Workers