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Why The Professors’ Union Got Behind El-Sayed
The American Association of University Professors made a rare move: endorsing Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s primary. Todd Wolfson, president of AAUP and a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers, joins the show to explain why. We discuss El-Sayed’s own family ties to the union, why AAUP’s Michigan locals overwhelmingly backed him in internal polling, why AAUP says it would endorse any candidate—centrist or progressive—who champions public higher education, and why Wolfson argues that decades of defunding, not campus politics, is the real story behind the cost of college.
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