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Duke University graduate students win union election in a landslide

University Business

If the results are certified, PhD students who work at Duke as teaching assistants and researchers will form the largest graduate student union at a private university in the South. The final vote count on Tuesday was 1,000 votes for the union to 131 against.

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4 Reasons Why You Should Study in Germany

Study and Go Abroad

Luckily, there are more public universities — schools funded by the government — in Germany than private universities — independent schools that rely on funding from tuition fees. However, you’ll need to pay tuition fees if you attend a private university.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” “We become a union by acting like one,” she said. Unions for Private University Grad Students Under federal law, private university employees can unionize—except, generally, tenured and tenure-track faculty, following a 1980 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

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2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 187 with Host Deborah Maue and Guest Dr. Drumm McNaughton

The Change Leader, Inc.

And even in Ohio, just recently with their bringing in a new president, that whole process, I actually had a phone call from a student. The student union wanted to hire me to fix this for them. You know, he’s an adjunct professor at Duke, which is a private university. Oh, this is interesting. Right, right.