Dear UALE community, The 2026 CUNY SLU Strategic Corporate Research Summer School, sponsored by the AFL-CIO is now accepting applications<https://slu.cuny.edu/scr-summer-school/>. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2026. The SCR Summer School (formerly run by Kate Bronfenbrenner at Cornell) is a great way for union staff, community organizations, social movement organizations, and activists to develop skills for organizing, corporate accountability, and campaign building. To get all the details, please see below and visit: 2026 Strategic Corporate Research Summer School<https://slu.cuny.edu/scr-summer-school/> Please feel free to share this email widely with colleagues and friends. Thank you. Stephanie Luce & Aaron Brenner, scrsummerschool@slu.cuny.edu Date: June 21 - 26, 2026 Location: School of Labor and Urban Studies, City University of New York, 25 W. 43rd Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10036. Sponsors: School of Labor and Urban Studies, City University of New York and the AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research  Goal: Prepare students to begin and advance in careers in strategic corporate research and strategic campaigns by teaching them to understand and research corporate structure and ownership structure, corporate finance, and the sources of corporate power.  Audience: Union staff, social change/corporate accountability organization staff, activists, and others who work or want to work in unions and social change organizations that strive to make and keep corporations accountable, including primarily labor unions and workers’ centers, environmental justice groups, and community-based organizations. Program cost: The CUNY SLU Strategic Corporate Research Summer School accepts two types of students: Sponsored: $1,300 Individual: $500 Sponsored students are employed by a union or social justice/corporate accountability organization that has approved their attendance and will pay for their participation in the Summer School. Sponsored students are not eligible for a scholarship. Individual students are not employed by a union or social justice/corporate accountability organization and pay their own program costs. Individual students may apply for a scholarship to cover program costs and housing (not transportation). For more information on program costs and scholarships, please see Admissions and Fees<https://slu.cuny.edu/scr-summer-school/scr-admissions-and-fees/>. Questions: scrsummerschool@slu.cuny.edu.