UWUFF meetings provide a space for organizers and supporters to share experiences and strategies across univerities and ranks. Meetings are facilitated by different UWUFF members each month who set the agenda. The only decision that must be made at each meeting is to elect the next faciltator.
Meetings are open to all university workers. They occur on the first Friday of the month. To join a meeting, please email universityworkers@gmail.com for the invitation and link.
May 7, 2PM EST / 5PM PST
Hosted by Katryn E. (Columbia / GEO)
April 2, 2 PM EST/ 11 AM PST
Hosted by Sarah T. (Penn State University / CJU/ PSU)
March 5, 2 PM EST/ 11 AM PST
Hosted by Andy T. (U Michigan/ LEO)
Jan. 15, 2PM EST / 5PM PST
TOPIC: TBD
Dec. 4, 2 PM EST/11 AM PST
Oct. 23, 2:30 PM EDT
TOPIC: Organizing at Liberal Arts Colleges: The Case of Ithaca College
Oct. 9, 2020, 8PM EDT/ 5PM PDT
TOPIC: Happy Hour!
Sept., 25, 2 PM EDT/11 AM PDT
TOPIC: New Semester, New Struggles?
Sept. 11, 2PM EDT/ 11AM PDT
TOPIC: New Semester, New Struggles?
Aug. 28, 2020, 2 PM EDT/11AM PDT
TOPIC: New Semester, New Struggles?
Aug. 7, 2020, 2 PM EDT/11 AM PDT
TOPIC: Principles, mission, vision
July 24, 2020, 2PM EDT/ 11AM PDT
TEACH-IN: Breaking the Silos at University of Michigan: How contingent faculty's collective bargaining turned into a cross-rank, multi-campus coalition with students & ladder-rank faculty
TOPIC: Principles, mission, vision
July 10, 2020, 2PM EDT/ 11 AM PDT
TOPIC: H1-B and F-1 visa discrimination
TOPIC: Principles, mission, vision by institution type
June 26, 2020, 2 PM EDT
TOPIC: Principles, mission, vision by rank
June 12, 2020, 2 PM EDT
TOPIC: Principles, mission, vision
May 29, 2020, 1:30 PM EDT
TOPIC: Organizing by strategy (3): Working Group Sessions
May 22, 2020, 1:30 PM EDT
TOPIC: Organizing by strategy (2): Endowments and Budgets
TEACH-IN: How Endowments Rule: An Analytical Toolkit
May 15, 2020, 3 PM EDT
TOPIC: Organizing by strategy (1): Unions and Advocacy
TEACH-IN: Risa Lieberwitz, General Counsel AAUP, and Julie Schmid, Executive Director AAUP
May 8, 2020, at 4:30 PM EDT.
TOPIC: Organizing by rank (grad, contingent/term-limited, pre-tenure and tenured) (2).
TEACH-IN: Debt Collective: If you owe the bank $1.3 trillion, you own the bank.
May 1, 2020, 1:30 PM EDT.
TOPIC: Organizing by rank (grad, contingent/term-limited, pre-tenure and tenured) (1)
TEACH-IN: University of Washington Short- and Long-term Organizing for Appointment Renewals.
April 24, 2020, 4:30 PM EDT.
TOPIC: Organizing by type of institution (public, private, liberal arts) (2).
April 17, 2020, 4:30 PM EDT.
TOPIC: Organizing by type of institution (public, private, liberal arts) (1).
TEACH-IN: Columbia People's Response to COVID: Organizing Against the University-Landlord
April 10, 2020, 2 PM EDT
TOPIC: Sharing and brainstorming tactics and strategies
April 3, 2020, 3:15 PM EDT.
TOPIC: Welcome!