Harvard Academic Workers - UAW (HAW-UAW)

@HAWorkers

A union of non-tenure-track researchers and teachers at Harvard harvardacademicworkers.org

Joined January 2023

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Harvard Academic Workers - UAW (HAW-UAW) @HAWorkers Jun 14, 2024

We've launched our bargaining survey, the next step in democratically determining what to fight for in our first contract, and in building the power to win it! HAW teachers and researchers in FAS, HMS, and HDS, fill out your survey here: harvardacademicworkers.org/haw-uaw-bargai…

Harvard Academic Workers - UAW (HAW-UAW) @HAWorkers Dec 10, 2024

"Harvard’s time-cap [is] a terrible policy for the institution, making it difficult to envision and enact long-term plans for curricular development or to build up institutional memory. For Yiddish studies in particular... it is an absolute trainwreck."

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forward.com Harvard’s Yiddish studies program is in danger — from self-inflicted wounds The denial of tenure to one scholar and time caps on two others is creating unnecessary chaos

Harvard Academic Workers - UAW (HAW-UAW) @HAWorkers Oct 24, 2024

Today we released our report on the impact of the time caps policies at Harvard—which mandates that non-tenure track faculty lose their jobs after a fixed number of years. You can read it here: harvardtimecaps.shorthandstories.com

harvardtimecaps.shorthandstories.com Report on Faculty Time Caps at Harvard University The Time Caps Working Group surveyed faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). We received 341 responses from employees (mostly ladder and non-ladder faculty)...

Harvard Academic Workers - UAW (HAW-UAW) @HAWorkers Oct 23, 2024

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Harvard Academic Workers - UAW (HAW-UAW) @HAWorkers Oct 3, 2024

Harvard has rejected our proposal for a moratorium on its cruel and arbitrary time cap policy. But we're fighting back. Support Harvard's teaching faculty — sign our petition to end the administration's policy of arbitrary term limits! forms.gle/vibj3qi5zD2h9d…

docs.google.com Harvard: End the Time Caps on Teaching Faculty! ***Closed for signatures 2/20/25***