Articles for Graduate Student

UC academic workers’ strike begins as pro-Palestinian activism enters new phase
7 months ago

UC academic workers’ strike begins as pro-Palestinian activism enters new phase

LA Times  

Hundreds of academic workers at UC Santa Cruz became the first to walk off their jobs Monday, a rolling strike that immediately disrupted university operations as picketing union members forced classes online and restricted access to campus. Jack Davies, a striking 34-year-old graduate student studying the history of consciousness, said that, “at a minimum,” he hoped “to send a message …

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Seattle police officer who struck and killed graduate student from India won't face felony charges
10 months ago

Seattle police officer who struck and killed graduate student from India won't face felony charges

Hindustan Times  

SEATTLE — Prosecutors in Washington state said Wednesday they will not file felony charges against a Seattle police officer who struck and killed a graduate student from India while responding to an overdose call — a case that attracted widespread attention after another officer was recorded making callous remarks about it. In a memo to the Seattle Police Department on …

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Universal appeal, set to grow
1 year, 2 months ago

Universal appeal, set to grow

China Daily  

The new characters, Poppy from DreamWorks Animation's hit film Trolls, and Puss in Boots and his girlfriend Kitty Softpaws, make limited-time appearances during the month-long birthday celebration. Yang Yuhan, a second-year graduate student studying international business at Beijing Second Foreign Language University, has visited five times. "The Transformers movies were a constant in my life as I grew up, and …

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PICK SIX: Impact transfers paying dividends at contenders
1 year, 10 months ago

PICK SIX: Impact transfers paying dividends at contenders

Associated Press  

Free agency has come to college basketball with the NCAA’s determination that transfers need not sit out a year before playing. “He’s playing like an All-American.” CAM SPENCER, 6-4, 207, senior, Rutgers His 18.9 scoring average at Loyola Maryland likely convinced him he’d undersold himself, and his transfer has proven it. He’s the whole package.” MORRIS UDEZE, 6-8, 240, graduate …

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To afford historic labor contract, UC considers cutting TAs, graduate student admissions
1 year, 10 months ago

To afford historic labor contract, UC considers cutting TAs, graduate student admissions

LA Times  

University of California academic workers won major wage gains following a six-week strike but campuses but scrambling to find ways to pay for them. “The state of California needs more highly trained people, and we’re going in the opposite direction,” said Susannah Scott, a UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor and chair of her campus Academic Senate. The result of …

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UC strike causes union organizing surge for academic workers
1 year, 11 months ago

UC strike causes union organizing surge for academic workers

LA Times  

Piril Nergis is a doctoral student at USC but joined picket lines at UCLA to support the recent strike of University of California academic workers. And at the Rand Corp.’s graduate school in Santa Monica, David DeSmet said he and fellow doctoral students were inspired to organize with the United Auto Workers after reading about UC graduate student researchers forming …

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Canadian graduate student looks to spread love of TCM
2 years ago

Canadian graduate student looks to spread love of TCM

China Daily  

Martin Albert Haase performs acupuncture on a patient at the Hunan University of Chinese Medicine's First Hospital. A graduate student at the Hunan University of Chinese Medicine in Changsha, Hunan province, Haase assists his teacher Zhang Wei, a senior TCM practitioner who is also a professor at the university, in seeing patients and giving acupuncture treatments in the outpatient department …

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University of California, workers reach deal to end strike
2 years ago

University of California, workers reach deal to end strike

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The University of California reached an agreement Friday with some 36,000 graduate student teaching assistants and other academic workers for increased pay and benefits that could potentially end a monthlong strike — the largest of its kind in the nation — at the prestigious state system. “In addition to incredible wage increases, the tentative agreements also include …

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Chaos over grades, finals and ongoing classes erupts as UC strike continues
2 years ago

Chaos over grades, finals and ongoing classes erupts as UC strike continues

LA Times  

UCLA junior Sania Tuli is worried that she’s missing material she’ll need when she takes her medical college admission exam next year. UC Riverside senior Nathalie Boutros fears she is falling behind in a class required to graduate because she hasn’t been able to find help during the massive strike of 48,000 University of California academic workers. The nation’s largest …

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Fears rise that UC strike could have long-lasting consequences on vaunted research, teaching
2 years ago

Fears rise that UC strike could have long-lasting consequences on vaunted research, teaching

LA Times  

As the nation’s largest ever strike of higher-education academic workers enters its third week Monday, with the crunch time of final exams just days away, fears are rising over long-lasting and unintended consequences to the University of California’s core missions of teaching and research. Faculty in particular are worried that higher labor costs to meet the salary demands of the …

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Nearly a week into UC strike, little bargaining progress, but support for workers grows
2 years, 1 month ago

Nearly a week into UC strike, little bargaining progress, but support for workers grows

LA Times  

Menelik Tafari, a fourth-year urban schooling graduate student at UCLA, walked off the job Monday with about 48,000 other University of California academic workers to strike for better pay and benefits. Ryan King, a spokesperson for UC, pointed out that the university’s latest proposal eliminates the two lowest salary steps for graduate researchers, which would amount to significant increases for …

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UC workers say they are struggling to survive in California, and fighting unfair system
2 years, 1 month ago

UC workers say they are struggling to survive in California, and fighting unfair system

LA Times  

Unionized academic workers and UCI students supporting them walk a picket line while demanding better pay and benefits at University of California Irvine. “We need help,” Wade said as she joined her fellow graduate student workers and other academic employees on the picket line for the second day in a row. “And that’s a thing that you need to do …

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Low pay, rising costs push 48,000 University of California academic workers to the picket line
2 years, 1 month ago

Low pay, rising costs push 48,000 University of California academic workers to the picket line

LA Times  

Academic workers strike at UCLA on Monday for better pay and benefits for teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, tutors and fellows. The 48,000 workers make up four UAW bargaining units, which each represent a different group of academic workers: postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, graduate student researchers and academic student employees, which includes teaching assistants and tutors. UC officials …

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