Pandemic Resources: From Other Organizations

Following are a varity of resources on the pandemic created by other organizations that we think our members might find useful. 

From Our Organizing Partner, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

• Guidance for Local Higher Education Leaders on Information Requests and Requests to Bargain
• Solidarity Academy: Academic Workers United for Pandemic Defense and Collective Power (includes seminars on unemployment insurance and contingent academics, higher-ed federal updates, and organizing in a crisis)
• Higher Education Funding and the Impact of Coronavirus (webinar cosponsored by the AAUP)
• AFT Adjunct-Contingent Faculty Caucus (ACC) Statement on Protecting Part-Time Faculty from the Backlash of COVID-19
• Unemployment Insurance and the Contingent Academic FAQ
• A Plan to Safely Reopen America's Schools and Communities

Other Faculty Resources

• Statement on Equity and COVID-19 (Tenure for the Common Good)
• The Uncertainties of Higher Ed in the Age of COVID-19 (webinar by the African American Intellectual History Society in collaboration with the AAUP)
• Crowdsourced Online Teaching Advice, Platforms, Websites, Blogs, and Assignments (Judith Miller, Emory History Dept.)
• "Humanizing Online Teaching" (Mary Raygoza, Raina León, and Aaminah Norris—Saint Mary's)
• Crowdsourced Remote Teaching Resources by Institution (Daniel Stanford—DePaul University)
  Expression and Engagement During COVID-19 (National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement)
• PEN America Webinars (online hate and harassment, privacy and public health, and more)
• Supporting Equity for Disabled Students (Association for Higher Education and Disability)

Resources from Other Organizations

• List of Colleges That Will Require Students or Employees to Be Vaccinated Against Covid-19 (CHE)
• Joint Statement Regarding Dangerous Restrictions by States on COVID-19 Public Health Measures. Statement by an assortment of higher education groups addressing state restrictions on COVID-19 response.
• Considerations for Reopening Institutions of Higher Education in the COVID-19 Era (ACHA)
• New Covid-19 Relief Bill: An Estimate of What Individual Institutions May Receive (ACE)
• Resources for College Health Professionals, Including Webinars (ACHA)
• CHEA- and USDE-Recognized Accreditors and COVID-19 Information
• Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (University of Minnesota)
• Guidance for Reopening Schools and Education Institutions (Education International)