Sentences with phrase «graduate assistants teaching»
In a case called Brown University, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that graduate assistants teaching courses and working in labs, libraries, museums, and offices on the private campus in Providence have no right to form a labor union.
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A Harvard Law graduate, Saba has served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy and taught at Georgetown and American University.
Dr. Piwowar was an assistant professor of finance at Iowa State University where he focused his research on market microstructure and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in corporate finance and investments.
More than 3,000 graduate teaching assistants, contract faculty and graduate research assistants walked off the job March 5 in a dispute over wages and job security.
Graduate students eager to engage the cutting - edge theories of internationally famous professors often chafed when asked to serve as Efird's teaching assistants.
David W. Lutz is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Philosophy Department at the University of Notre Dame.
For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.
These PERMANENT NOTES, as Professor Burch has entitled them, cover a period extending from 1919 to 1943 and consist, mostly, of class notes, reading notes, and papers composed by Burch while he was an undergraduate student, graduate student, and teaching assistant at Harvard University.
During her time as a graduate student, Samantha also worked as a teaching assistant at her university.
Since then, she has earned her Master of Public Health in Behavioral Science and Health Promotion and is a Maternal and Child Health doctoral student, a graduate teaching and research assistant.
Students at Syracuse University and local colleges would no longer be able to deduct the interest they pay on student loans, and graduate students would have to begin paying tax on the tuition that is waived for them while they work on campus as researchers and teaching assistants.
The proposal would treat tuition waivers for graduate students who work as research or teaching assistants as taxable income.
Under the GOP plan, tuition waivers for graduate students who work as research or teaching assistants would be considered taxable income.
It is ironic that many graduate students plan to have a career in academia but enter the job market with a major disadvantage: In many, perhaps most, cases the only formal training in teaching they receive is a short stint as a teacher's assistant (TA).
Still, adds Autry, «some research assistant professors can stay long term» and all are eligible to teach, although «they can't be course director and they can't have their own postdocs or graduate students.»
Despite this apparently massive setback, the effort to organize teaching and research assistants on private campuses will continue, insists the United Auto Workers, the national union that the Brown graduate assistants were attempting to join.
For example, the graduate student unionization efforts underway at a number of private universities rely on the National Labor Relations Board's August 2016 ruling that graduate research and teaching assistants are employees.
Private institutions, on the other hand, were not required to recognize their graduate students» right to unionize until this past August, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate research and teaching assistants are employees.
New York University's graduate student union, which includes only teaching assistants and which the institution voluntarily recognized in 2013, has had successes in this area, says Seana Lymer, unit representative for the union and a Ph.D. candidate in biology.
As teaching assistants (TAs) during graduate school, many of us developed our own «teaching style,» but due to research and coursework responsibilities, developing an effective teaching strategy was not a high priority.
(Some 11,000 graduate student teaching assistants, readers, and tutors did just that in 1998 — and barely avoided a strike in 2003.)
A favorable PERB ruling would bring all of UC's nearly 6000 postdocs — about 10 % of the nation's total — into an international union that has already organized the UC system's 12,000 graduate teaching assistants, readers, and tutors into the Association of Graduate Student Employeegraduate teaching assistants, readers, and tutors into the Association of Graduate Student EmployeeGraduate Student Employees / UAW.
In addition to working as a teaching assistant during his graduate degree, Oak volunteered to design and teach chemistry and lab science to a class of 30 Grade 6 and 7 students at a private school in Malton, Ontario.
According to decisions disclosed yesterday, November 1, by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), New York University's graduate, teaching, and research assistants have won the right to form a union.
He took a string of part - time UNICEF contracts during his first two graduate years, and when those came to an end he served as a teaching assistant for a course on developmental cooperation and poverty reduction in his university's economics department.
In 1984, as a graduate student at Brown University, Yang Wei took a course in materials science taught by a new assistant professor.
It helped that her department allowed extra time to submit paperwork and provided a graduate assistant to help with her teaching.
The paper was co-authored by Joseph Simons - Rudolph, a teaching assistant professor of psychology at NC State; Christine Brugh and Eileen Schilling, graduate students at NC State; and Chad Hoggan, an assistant professor of educational leadership, policy and human development at NC State.
Other authors on the study include postdoctoral fellow Ceyhun Eksin and graduate teaching assistant Keith Paarporn, both members of the Weitz group in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Professors Sam Brown and Will Ratcliff, both faculty in the School of Biological Sciences.
As a graduate student, she developed and presented a range of educational outreach and development programs, including a two - day discipline - specific pedagogical training for incoming teaching assistants, as well as four animated videos of classical ecology papers.
Veronica Segarra, an assistant professor of biology at High Point University, shares how her graduate school experiences in teaching and outreach inspired her to pursue a career in science that combines bench work, teaching and outreach.
Courses will be taught by Georgia State University faculty members, post-doctoral research associates, and graduate or undergraduate student teaching assistants.
Every Brown graduate student does a year of assistant teaching.
Western and the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 610, representing Graduate Teaching Assistants, have reached a tentative deal which the negotiating teams have jointly agreed to recommend to their...
Once she graduated, she found herself taking time off of her research assistant job to volunteer at local farms and in a Montessori school's teaching kitchen.
In graduate school at Syracuse University I was a teaching assistant for an amazing professor who was a true pioneer in sports nutrition.
High and Crystal Wotipka, lead author of the study and graduate teaching assistant in the UI's Department of Communication Studies, wanted to know how people who use these sites respond to different ways people present themselves online.
At the Harvard Graduate School of Education Convocation exercises on May 24, Assistant Professor Karen Brennan was presented with the Morningstar Family Teaching Award.
Ira Socol is a graduate research and teaching assistant at Michigan State University.
The National Association for Research in Science Teaching last month recognized Dr. Philip Sadler, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for making «the most significant contribution» to research in science education during the past year.
The only major areas of funding left to consider are graduate teaching assistants and professional teaching staff; together these make up about $ 34 million in FY2011.
Obtaining professional development funds for training, equipment, and the services of a graduate student assistant helped make the change to blended teaching a successful experience.»
Coming back to my hometown of Boston, I fell into an assistant teaching position at a summer school program, which I had only planned on doing to make a few dollars while I applied to graduate school to do something — anything — other than work on Wall Street.
She is currently an assistant professor in the department of teaching and learning at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Education where she teaches courses on middle school and high school English instruction.
The author holds a PhD in Human Rights and Peace Studies (recipient of the Swedish International Development Agency SIDA scholarship) from the Centre for Human Rights and Social Development, Mahidol University, Thailand; and is engaged as Assistant Professor (Human Rights), teaching at both Graduate and Post Graduate levels at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
Computer Programming For Kids 8 And Up WBUR, December 26, 2012 «While the programming languages are simpler than the ones used by professionals, they're still teaching kids the foundations of computer science, according to [Assistant Professor] Karen Brennan of Harvard Graduate School of Education, who helped develop the Scratch program at MIT's Media Lab.»
We have also employed one of the National School Apprenticeship graduates as a full - time Teaching Assistant in the school.»
Another author in the book, [Rutgers Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor] Beth Rubin, discusses how racially patterned tracking «teaches» students the same false lesson: that some «race groups» are smarter than others.
She is a graduate from Southern Connecticut State University where she served as the department's graduate teaching assistant.
Charlotte Roberts, a graduate teaching assistant for N.C. State's College of Education, leads a class discussion in October 2017 on how to keep students» minds from wandering.