AFT Higher Education Community
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About AFT Higher Education
The AFT represents approximately 400,000 academic workers (full-time and part-time faculty, academic professionals and graduate employees) at public and private colleges and universities in all 50 states. With more than 400 affiliates across the United States, we are the largest and fastest growing higher education union in the country.
Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy: The AFT and the American Association of University Professors together represent the largest and most powerful force of higher education workers in the United States. Our members teach classes that transform students’ lives and run labs that result in lifesaving medical research. They create opportunity and strengthen communities.
But their crucial work is now under siege. Devastating funding cuts are halting medical breakthroughs and slashing support for students—all as political retribution from an administration that wants to control knowledge.
In this moment of profound crisis, our collective power carries a responsibility—not only to defend our institutions from sustained political and economic attacks, but to advance a bold, collective vision of higher education as a democratic, accessible and transformative public good.
Now is the time to mobilize, collaborate and tap the full depth of our combined power. Our national movement must defend higher education, both in the streets and at the ballot box.
We must protect our members’ vital work but also rebuild a higher education system that paves a pathway to opportunity for all students.