Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US are striking the Trump Administration’s Strapters on National Students on May Day and a national general strike in May 2028.
The day of movement is organized under the banner of students who stand up, a network of students including local groups and national organizations such as the sunrise movement and the campus network. Students are united in labor and education unions such as the American Association of University Professors and Higher Education Unions.
Protesters have called university administrators and elected officials to criticize the months-long shutdown of universities over the administration’s conservative resignation. Only one university, New College of Florida — a public school that state lawmakers have turned into a bastion of Conservatism — accepted it.
“Universities should be places of learning, not propaganda machines,” said Alicia Colomer, Managing Director of the Campus Climate Network, ahead of the protests. “That’s why students, workers and alumni across the country are taking action.”
As the day unfolded, hundreds of students across the country skipped classes, held banners, and joined campuses, often joining faculty and other staff. In addition to criticizing the compact, they call for a more affordable education and for the protection of all students – from transgender to international ones.
At the University of Kansas, about 70 students asked the administration to withdraw from the weapons programs and Israel, refusing to meet the demands of the faculty contracts. At Duke University, in North Carolina, professors made signs asking the university to stand in the university of immigrants, pay workers $ 25 each salary and international students. At Brown University in Rhode Island – one of the first institutions to reach a settlement with the Trump administration to prompt a series of demands to print a series of demands of their demands to print a series of demands to print a series of demands to paint their demands and stop their creations in a successive demands to print a successive demands of the demands of the demands of their demands about the history of the Autocracy.
“Trump is coming into our community thinking we’re going to have our freedom beaten,” said Simon Aron, a sophomore and co-president of Brown Reat Up Up. “He’s wrong.”
In New York City, students and faculty from multiple campuses gathered at the Midtown headquarters of CEO Marcok Donor and Kong Billionaire Architect of the Compact.no business enterprise for higher education“.
They cited Rowan’s involvement with the online University of Phoenix, which they described as “the nation’s largest student rights activist at universities and criticism of students and teachers in Israel.
A spokesman for Apollo did not respond to a request for comment but the company did was reportedly appointed staff to stay home on Friday in anticipation of the protest. In a new one New York Times op-edRowan defended the compact, writing that American higher education is “broken” and that “course correction must come from the outside”.
Amy Offer, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, told the Guardian that the campaign against Rowan is part of a larger effort to protect ultra-rich individuals. “Billionaires should not control what can be taught and studied in the United States,” he said.
The protests marked the first time that students, faculty and staff staged such a large-scale response. “There is only one way to save higher education and serhematicy written students, faculty,” Todd Wolfson, “the President of the AAUP,” the President of the AAUP, said there was a call to protest organizations last week. “We must become a new political force.”