With almost a month into the fall 2020 semester at most universities and colleges, graduate students and resident assistants at the University of Michigan are “close to revolt” about the university’s coronavirus pandemic response and…
Topic: graduate students
UC-Santa Cruz caves, rehires some graduate students after strike
After five months, the University of California-Santa Cruz and fired graduate student workers reached an agreement after the university fired seventy workers who went on strike. Of the seventy, only forty-one were rehired by the…
UC-Santa Cruz fires striking teaching assistants
The University of California-Santa Cruz fired some of its graduate students after they refused to post grades, which was a part of a labor strike to receive higher cost-of-living adjustments in their stipends.
Graduate Student Union in Illinois Calls Itself a ‘Sanctuary Union’
University of Illinois graduate student union now calls itself a ‘sanctuary union’ that welcomes all illegal immigrant students.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Separated Gun Owners from Rest of the Class, is Later Reassigned
A graduate student was reassigned from teaching assistant responsibilities after the student separated gun owners from the rest of the class in one of the lectures.
Graduate Students Make Strategic Retreat
Can it be that the Resistance, at least on the academic side, is realizing that President Trump may serve at least one full term?
Graduate Students Protest GOP Tax Reform Bill due to Possible Elimination of Tax Code Carve Out
Graduate students in at least fifty universities across the country protested the recent Republican Congress-majority tax reform bill in the House of Representatives and in the Senate due to stripping benefits from college and graduate students.
Professors Weigh In On Tax Bill
Well, that didn’t take long.
Harvard Graduates to Get Hearing on Unionization Status
From Campus Reform: The majority of votes of Harvard University students voted against forming a union for teaching and research assistants, but the number of contested ballots is greater than the margin of victory. The…
Ohio University Students Want to Remove Roger Ailes’ Name from a School Building
From the College Fix: [The Graduate Student Senate] voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the school to remove Ailes’ name from the newsroom. A local socialist group also is pressuring the university to dump Ailes to…
Book Review
Book Review: America, Guns, and Freedom
As gun rights and gun control advocates, political surrogates, spokespeople, and groups contend over the future of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, Dr. Miguel Faria, Jr., M.D. published a book that gives extensive background,…
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