Sentences with phrase «graduate student unions»

The state of Michigan leads in terms of progressive policy regarding graduate student unions with five universities recognizing graduate employee unions: Central Michigan University, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Western Michigan University.

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.

Sneeden describes herself as generally supportive of labor unions and says she once was a member of the graduate student union at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Another major advantage to membership in the graduate student union was health insurance, Rounds says.

Many institutions depend heavily on graduate student teaching: a 2003 report by agitators for a graduate student union at Yale, [16] for instance, claims that «70 % of undergraduate teaching contact hours at Yale are performed by transient teachers: graduate teachers, adjunct instructors, and other teachers not on the tenure track.»

Early morning on June 27, 2010, Toronto police entered the Graduate Students Union's (GSU) pub and gymnasium in the Koffler Student Centre at the University of Toronto in... [more]

An emcee wearing the red graduate student union T - shirt led a chant: «When education is under attack, what do we do?

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She co-founded and is the chair of the African American Student Union at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, an organization that supports African - Americans working in architecture, real estate and urban planning.

The analysis, which was done in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Harvard Business School's African American Student Union, captures the career trajectories of the majority of female black graduates who have earned degrees from the school.

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Editor's Note: David Bristow serves as a Christian youth director in northern Virginia and is a graduate student at Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C.

He went on to graduate at the top of his class with first class honours in Politics and Modern History at Manchester University, winning the Robert McKenzie Prize for political science, his first book contract and election to the (sabbatical) leadership of the students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National students» union, Labour Students» National Committee and NUS National Students» National Committee and NUS National Council.

Mr. Lammy: The first thing to say is that we are doing all we can to work with employers, careers services in universities, the National Union of Students and students themselves to ensure that students have the best choice and the best portfolio of things they can do when they graduate in theStudents and students themselves to ensure that students have the best choice and the best portfolio of things they can do when they graduate in thestudents themselves to ensure that students have the best choice and the best portfolio of things they can do when they graduate in thestudents have the best choice and the best portfolio of things they can do when they graduate in the autumn.

Returning to her Alma mater, Cynthia Nixon joined picketing Columbia Graduate students who are looking to form a union but claim the university has denied them that right.

In fact, in addition to the faculty union, skeptics of the program have included the CUNY Graduate Center's newspaper, the president of the SUNY Student Assembly, and SUNY's own trustees; an academic program coordinator at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College offered a point - by - point evisceration of the scholarship in an op - ed for Inside Higher Ed.

The United University Professions, the union that represents SUNY faculty, has opened the application period for $ 3,000 scholarships for up to four SUNY undergraduates, and one graduate or professional student.

The National Union of Students (NUJ) has called for the current system to be scrapped and replaced by a new scheme that would see graduates making contributions depending on how much they benefit financially from their university education.

Even the National Union of Students has been sniffing round its own preferred version of a graduate tax.»

Three fifth - year students from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture talk about their experiences studying at The Cooper Union as they prepare to graduate next week

Last night the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, wrote to the head of the National Union of Students appealing to students not to distort the debate over fees, saying that many believe wrongly that they will have to pay fees immediately instead of when they gStudents appealing to students not to distort the debate over fees, saying that many believe wrongly that they will have to pay fees immediately instead of when they gstudents not to distort the debate over fees, saying that many believe wrongly that they will have to pay fees immediately instead of when they graduate.

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By a 3 - 2 party - line vote, the NLRB's Republican members, all appointed by George W. Bush, overturned a ruling that in 2000 permitted New York University graduate students to form the first such union on a private campus.

Union organizer Jack Nicoludis, a graduate student in the chemistry and chemical biology department, notes that one of the most important functions a union can serve is to provide a formal mechanism to address student grievaUnion organizer Jack Nicoludis, a graduate student in the chemistry and chemical biology department, notes that one of the most important functions a union can serve is to provide a formal mechanism to address student grievaunion can serve is to provide a formal mechanism to address student grievances.

But much of the opposition to the union seems to have come from Harvard's scientists, which made up about half of the approximately 3200 graduate students eligible to vote.

The California contract covers only students involved in teaching, said Rajan Mehta, head union steward for the Berkeley campus, where he is a graduate student in math.

The union also won enhanced access to incoming graduate students.

Wu Boda, director of China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center, says the new organization could learn from the experience of the European Union's Erasmus Programme, which was established in 1987 to foster student mobility and other educational cooperation within Europe.

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.

Many of the organizers are themselves UC postdocs and graduate students, according to the union.

The agreement between McMaster and the union also relaxes the 10 - hour rule, enabling graduate students to obtain work off campus.

This is completely unfair to graduate students who are often only using the university for research purposes as they write up their theses, explains union president Ray Westcott.

A 2011 report issued by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Status of the Geoscience Workforce, argued that based on graduation rates of geoscience graduate students (approximately 1500 per year) and job - growth numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be a U.S. workforce «shortfall» estimated at 30,000 geoscientists by 2018.

«In budget meetings [last fall], members of state assembly directly questioned President Atkinson on his handling of the union issue,» says Connie Razza, spokesperson for the Student Association of Graduate Employees (SAGE) at UCLA.

He earned his Ph.D. in plant biology on the same Amherst campus where he now works and where graduate students are already represented by a union affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW).

Earlier this spring, however, some graduate students contacted by Next Wave expressed hope that should a union contract be negotiated, the university might be «compelled» to extend union - negotiated arrangements to students across the campus.

Calling the NLRB ruling «comprehensive and clear,» Elizabeth Bunn, vice president of the United Auto Workers (UAW)-- the union seeking to represent NYU graduate assistants — enthused in a press release that «this decision confirms what academic student employees at campuses across the country know... they are workers and are treated as such by their employers.»

Crone feels that a strong union presence can limit the ability of other graduate student organizations to work productively with the administration.

Monazir Khan, a graduate student at SUNY Binghamton and chief negotiator for the Graduate Student Employment Union, says, «I think it has no effect on the faculty - student relationship, as long as the faculty are not also administratorsgraduate student at SUNY Binghamton and chief negotiator for the Graduate Student Employment Union, says, «I think it has no effect on the faculty - student relationship, as long as the faculty are not also administrators.student at SUNY Binghamton and chief negotiator for the Graduate Student Employment Union, says, «I think it has no effect on the faculty - student relationship, as long as the faculty are not also administratorsGraduate Student Employment Union, says, «I think it has no effect on the faculty - student relationship, as long as the faculty are not also administrators.Student Employment Union, says, «I think it has no effect on the faculty - student relationship, as long as the faculty are not also administrators.student relationship, as long as the faculty are not also administrators.»

Any graduate student who so much as mentions the word «union» in the presence of a university administrator has probably heard the argument: Unions poison the educational relationship between faculty and students.

Zayna Khayat, organizer of the series and past president of the Biochemistry Graduate Students» Union at U of T, agrees: I think students are starting to get more aware, for two reasons: First, there was a similar event held last year, which a lot of people found helpful; and second, I think students are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it useStudents» Union at U of T, agrees: I think students are starting to get more aware, for two reasons: First, there was a similar event held last year, which a lot of people found helpful; and second, I think students are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it usestudents are starting to get more aware, for two reasons: First, there was a similar event held last year, which a lot of people found helpful; and second, I think students are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it usestudents are finding more and more that the academy isn't what it used to be.

Affiliated with both AAUP, the professional society for college and university teachers, and AFT, a national labor union within AFL / CIO, this hybrid group represents all of Rutgers's faculty members, research associates, and graduate student employees.

In a presentation on Wednesday, Dec. 14, during this week's annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, UC Berkeley developer and graduate student Qingkai Kong will summarize the app's performance.

Similarly, grad students throughout universities that are further down the path of unionization remain mixed in their opinions on the subject — for example, Yale graduate students filed for union elections in only 10 departments across the university.

Many of the students in danger of not graduating have taken the test up to seven times, according to the union.

Harvard Gives Christie's Education Plans a Warm Welcome New York Times, April 29, 2011 «Speaking to almost 200 students and staff members at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the New Jersey governor drew rounds of applause with his talk of sharply limiting teacher tenure, rigorously evaluating teachers and administrators, curbing the power of teachers» unions and pledging to appoint more - conservative justices to the State Supreme Court.»

The University and College Union (UCU) General Secretary Sally Hunt, said: «Successive Governments» efforts to transfer the bill for higher education teaching onto graduates have created unsustainable levels of debt, with students from low and middle - income backgrounds being hit the hardest by the repayment burden.

Claremont Graduate University professor Charles Kerchner described Hoxby's study in a literature review prepared for the National Education Association as «the most sophisticated of the econometric attempts to isolate a union impact on the student results and school operations...» Hoxby finds that unionization is associated with higher student dropout rates as well as higher spending.

The network, which was founded in 2009, strives to provide quality education and assures all students in the Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles graduate from college.

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