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NLRB Orders Union Elections for Yale Graduate Students

NEW HAVEN, Conn.  — The National Labor Relations Board has granted petitions for graduate students in nine departments at Yale University to vote on whether they want union representation. The order Wednesday from the NLRB regional director in Boston calls for nine separate elections. Local 33-UNITE HERE sought elections first in departments where union support […]

January 26, 2017

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Black Doctoral Network to Hold its 1st Recruitment Fair

In an effort to connect more professionals and Ph.D.s of color with job opportunities in academia and the nonprofit world, the Black Doctoral Network will hold its first Recruitment Fair Feb. 25-27 in Philadelphia.

January 24, 2017

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Columbia University Objects to Vote for Graduates Students to Unionize

NEW YORK — Columbia University has formally objected to a recent vote by the Ivy League institution’s graduate teaching and research assistants to join the United Auto Workers union. The university filed a challenge with the National Labor Relations Board this past Friday regarding a Dec. 9 vote that authorized union representation for Columbia’s graduate […]

December 20, 2016

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Columbia Teaching and Research Assistants Vote to Join Union

NEW YORK — Graduate teaching and research assistants at Columbia University have voted to join a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers. The Detroit-based UAW announced Friday the New York Ivy League university students voted 1,602 to 623 in favor of union representation. The voting took place Wednesday and Thursday. The Columbia vote came […]

December 11, 2016

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Harvard Graduate Students Reach Deal to Vote on Unionization

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Graduate students at Harvard University are organizing an election to decide whether to unionize. A group of graduate students reached an agreement with Harvard’s administration on Tuesday to hold an election on Nov. 16 and 17. The vote will allow Harvard’s 3,500 teaching and research assistants to decide whether they will be […]

October 19, 2016

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University of Michigan Pays $165,000 to Ex-student who was Dismissed

DETROIT ― The University of Michigan agreed to pay $165,000 to settle what was left of a lawsuit over a graduate student’s dismissal from an engineering program in 2011. The school struck a deal with Jennifer Dibbern shortly before a June trial and after a federal judge dismissed most claims. She had accused the university […]

July 27, 2016

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Warren: Let Harvard Grad Assistants Form Bargaining Units

BOSTON ― U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has urged Harvard University to let graduate students who work as research and teaching assistants form collective bargaining units. Warren and fellow Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Markey sent a letter Monday to Harvard President Drew Faust, saying the students have helped make Harvard an academic world leader. They said […]

May 24, 2016

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Allen Doing His Part to Change Face of Science

Allen, a 2016 Diverse Emerging Scholar, credits Jackson State University with being a supportive environment but also challenging on his road to becoming a soldier and a scholar.

February 14, 2016

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October 29, 2015

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Florida Colleges Lure Students with Luxury Dorms

Tanning beds, putting greens and lazy rivers. No, these aren’t luxury retirements homes. They’re the upscale dorms that some Florida universities are using to lure students to campus.

October 11, 2015

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Missouri Grad Students a Step Closer to Unionizing

Graduate workers at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in Columbia are moving closer to unionizing.

October 4, 2015

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DANIEL AMADO TRUJILLO

DANIEL AMADO TRUJILLO has been appointed dean of studies and student life at Sarah Lawrence College. Trujillo was associate vice president and dean of students at St. John’s University in New York. Trujillo received a bachelor’s from the University of Redlands, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Missouri.

September 24, 2015