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.
Topic: graduate students
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…
Louisville Grad Student Worried about Whites on the Wrong Side of History on ‘Black Lives Matter’
A graduate student (technically, a doctoral student) at the University of Louisville wrote an op-ed and how white Americans could be on the wrong side of history by taking the side of police in ‘Black…
Students who Disagree with Pro-Palestinian Views are Labeled “Islamophobic”
The UCLA Graduate Student Association (known as GSA) believes that those who aren’t pro-Palestinian are “Islamophobic,” according to their latest resolution. Photo by joegaza Photo by joegaza
Faculty Lounge
University of Louisiana-Lafayette Updates Free Speech Policy after Criticism from Student Group
Virginia State University has Vague Wording of “Public Morals” in Handbook
China to Suspend Advanced Placement History Tests by 2020
Hollywood Criticizes Bowling Green State University for Changing Theater Building Name
Cal Poly Professor Created Attendance App by Using GPS Location Data
Black Lives Matter Exposed
Book Review
Why Angela Davis Should Remember the Jonestown Massacre
Not that anyone should forget but the revolutionary radical turned credentialed academic has a special reason to remember the mass suicide/homicide that occurred 40 years ago in the country of Guyana on November 18, 1978.
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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