Voting on the updated role proposal is open now in the UTGWU Announcements chat on Signal! Organizing Meeting Updates -- July 7, 14 At our July 7 meeting, we finalized our reevaluation of union roles. The proposal for roles can be found here. Elections will be held in October to give those joining the union at the beginning of the semester an opportunity to run, and term-length will be a year. If there are any questions/concerns about the proposal, feel free to let us know

UTGWU finds ourselves writing yet another statement condemning the UT administration’s recent changes to our campus’s departments, centers, and resources. On February 12th, UT faculty, staff, and students received an announcement via email regarding the consolidation of seven independent departments into two new conglomerate departments. African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS), American Studies (AMS), Mexican American and Latinx Studies (MALS), and Women’s, Gender, and S

On Friday, January 16th, a number of programs and centers received news that they would be closing at the end of the academic year. This includes the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), the Office of Community Engagement, the Vick Advising Excellence Center, and the Office for Undergraduate Research. The CTL’s entire staff was unceremoniously fired by UT administrators - including graduate research assistants and teaching fellows. While all of these cuts are unnecessary,