We are proud to represent so many workers in libraries! Unfortunately, their work is often under attack, when it should be celebrated.

Thanks to @steveahlquist.bsky.social for capturing our amazing, insightful, deliberative students' words. I want to live in the future these young people will build, not the one in which their elders make decisions based on fear. Our RIC students inspire me, & their voices deserve to be listened to.

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Stop Charter Expansion: Pass the Moratorium and Cap Reduction. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

It’s #401Gives! Donate to the RIC FAST Fund because financial emergencies shouldn't stop a student's education. Every dollar stays right here in RI to help students stay in school. The FAST Fund is run by faculty, not administrators, making us nimble and effective. Give: fastfundric.wixsite.com/fast

ricommunitiesfirst.com "When public dollars leave district schools, the impact is real – larger class sizes, fewer programs, less stability for educators, and and budget shortfalls for cities already under strain." Learn more & contact Governor McKee here:

Admin at The New School are threatening the cancellation of 23 academic programs. Students, faculty, & staff are fighting back, demanding a public meeting & an end to the manufactured austerity crisis. Check out this powerful song produced by TNS students: @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

It's time we ensured that all workers have the right to collectively bargain, regardless of where we live. Solidarity means collective action, not sympathy.

Recordings of class, other than those done as disability accommodations & kept for only personal use, should be understood as violations of intellectual property law just as recordings of live theatre are. It's time we changed the law to protect faculty intellectual property.

URI doesn't have urban police stationed close to campus. & by the way, the Brown shooting shows that armed police don't solve the problem of campus violence. Our students already have to fear being shot by ICE agents; they should not have to fear getting shot by the people we pay to keep them safe.

There are no words. May all those impacted by the violence of the past day experience a complete healing of body and spirit, and may we find a path forward in which our children do not have to live in fear of bullets.

Giving Tuesday is coming up fast (12/2) and FAST Fund RIC needs your help. Donate now: givebutter.com/RhodeIslandC... Don't let an overdue car insurance bill or a broken laptop stop a student at Rhode Island College from earning their degree. #BelieveinStudents #GivingTuesday #FASTFund

@pvdcitycouncil.bsky.social is considering charging fees to landlords who rent to students, thinking of students as people from elsewhere who are using our city services. But students here at @rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social are people from right here in our community. Their housing costs shouldn't

actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr... Sign to support higher education!

The last several days have demonstrated that we need a stronger labor movement to protect worker’s free speech rights

The First Amendment still exists, and Rhode Island needs to act quickly and firmly to protect the rights of our public employees to participate in civic life & speech.

How can we ensure the academic success & mental wellbeing of students who rely on transit to get around? If @RIPTA.com’s proposed service cuts move forward, many students will be left without reliable transit. Mental health matters. Attendance matters. Transit matters too. 🚌📚

AFT members from RIC Union Strong at Providence Pride!

RIC/AFT at No Kings Providence www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwH5...

RIC/AFT walking the line with the SEIU folks at Butler hospital.

RIC/AFT at yesterday's May Day rally. Our remarks (🧵): "Just a few years before our union was established, folks at RIC, along with those at URI and Brown, worked to abolish a loyalty pledge for public school teachers. It is students who first challenged this pledge, which sharply reduced public

RIC/AFT testifying at RI House Finance tonight

RIC/AFT testifying tonight in RI Senate Finance on behalf of funding for RIC.

Hello world! Migrating ourselves off the other place, glad to be here.

RIC/AFT marching with the RI AFL-CIO tonight at Providence Pride.

Thanks for the warm welcome from the Council on Postsecondary Ed last night, and for hearing faculty concerns re shared governance and transparency. RIC students, staff, and faculty deserve better.

Sad that students and employees at @RICNews will now have to pay $3/hour for charging electric vehicles. An incentive to go electric has suddenly become a disincentive at RIC. After the Act on Climate and other $ to fight climate change, is this the right direction @GovDanMcKee?

What a disturbing story. Lessons here for anyone that says @RICNews needs to cut its way to "success." The Plight of Mills College Should Be an Alarm for American Higher Ed https://prospect.org/education/plight-of-mills-college-american-higher-ed-alarm/#.YmAQrmdcK0Y.twitter

Crazy how RIC is so clearly the state's social mobility engine, yet so many RI leaders only want to see RIC make damaging cuts. We should be investing in RIC to invest in Rhode Island's future.

AFT settlement w/ US Dept of Ed means reconsideration to denied #PSLF applicants, auto review of denied applications pre-11/20 for borrowers w/10 years of repayment, notices of # of remaining payments to qualify for forgiveness @AFTUnion...

‘New Deal for Higher Education’ could restore public colleges and universities https://shar.es/aowVFZ via @aftunion

Voted to Approve Question 1!

Sending Support and Solidarity to CTU from Rhode Island @RICAFT! @CTULocal1 #PutItInWriting #faircontractnow

New #highered rulemaking "deeply flawed...severely lacking in transparency and public participation," helps #4profit "special interests to take advantage of students and taxpayers." @PattyMurray & @BobbyScott letter to @BetsyDeVos:...

Rhode Island College Faculty RIC/AFT have joined Twitter! #myfirstTweet #RespectRIC #RICProud