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About AFT Higher Education
The AFT represents approximately 400,000 academic workers (full-time and part-time faculty, academic professionals and graduate employees) at public and private colleges and universities in all 50 states. With more than 400 affiliates across the United States, we are the largest and fastest growing higher education union in the country.
With other AFT departments, the AFT Higher Education division provides affiliates with the tools and resources necessary to build power and capacity on campus, in their state capitols, and in their communities by way of offering guidance and solutions for strategic campaigns and federal and state level legislative advocacy, and by providing trainings and workshops, reports and publications.
Real Solutions for Higher Education: Through the work of the Real Solutions for Higher Education campaign, the AFT and our affiliates engage in focused, visible and meaningful organizing to reclaim higher education as a public good by:
- Fighting for increased investment in higher education.
- Defending campus free speech and academic freedom.
- Improving job security and ending contingent employment for academic workers.