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Johns Hopkins Grad Students Successfully Unionize

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“TRU has been around since 2015, and now we are heading into the next stage of our movement to support grad student workers to do the work we came to JHU to do,” said Andrew Eneim, a graduate worker, in a Wednesday union news release. students in achieving personal and professional success.”

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Temple Grad Students Start Strike

Confessions of a Community College Dean

[The union] members would continue to receive free tuition for their programs of study, on average, valued at about $20,000.” ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty studentaffairs teachinglearning Editorial Tags: College administration Graduate education Graduate students Unions/unionization Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Maximising postgraduate experience with student-led initiatives

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The diversity of reasons for pursuing graduate education makes it challenging for universities to offer programmes that meet all the needs of the student population. The class representative works closely with the Programme Director, Engineering School, Student Union and other organisms across the university.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. “There’s a lot of graduate education and a lot of research, and that’s where a lot of the staff and administrators are.”