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AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the present struggles and a future vision for U.S. Higher Education

https://breakingculture.substack.com/ Thanks again to Todd Wolfson for joining us to talk about the work the AAUP has been doing to combat the attacks on U.S. academic freedom and to develop a new, positive platform and vision for the future of U.S. Higher Education. Todd Wolfson is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of several books—including Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (2014); The Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (2017), and The Gig Economy: Workers and the Media in the Age of Convergence (2021)—as well as dozens of peer-reviewed articles. He co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change (MIC) Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Before becoming an academic labor leader, Todd worked as a community and labor organizer in Philadelphia. He is the current president of the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, to talk about the current state of academic freedom and U.S. Higher Education. The AAUP represents more than 50,000 faculty and higher education workers across 550 campuses nationwide. He is also a national vice president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and a longtime leader of the Rutgers Academic Workers Union, where he has helped represent 6,000 faculty, graduate workers, postdocs, and counselors. In 2023, he helped lead the first multi-union strike in Rutgers’ 257-year history, with 9,000 workers walking out and winning major gains.