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Duke to Challenge Ph.D. Students’ Right to Unionize - Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed

Ray Schroeder

The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17. Matthew Thomas, a Duke teaching assistant who co-chairs that union, told Inside Higher Ed that “Duke is declaring war on the grad union movement.”

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Attending the MLK Civil Rights Lecture at Hope

Hope College Network

Paul encouraged us to join him on his “King year 2016,” by presenting us a “3-point challenge,” which includes the following: Identify who you are Develop some substance Light up the Tower of Hope Now is the time to think about how you view yourself and whether or not your identity is rooted in something other than the surface level.

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10 Steps to Increase Study Abroad Participation

Study Aborad Association

According to the 2018 IIE Open Doors report , more than 332,000 US students studied abroad during the 2016–2017 academic year, an increase of 2.3% However, despite the overall trend upward, students studying abroad still only account for a small percentage of total US students. Organize a Faculty Development Workshop.

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Duke to Challenge Ph.D. Students’ Right to Unionize

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Duke University will legally challenge its graduate student workers’ latest effort to unionize. Duke will seek to present evidence demonstrating that its graduate students in their academic programs are not employees, and that the NLRB’s 2016 reasoning was incorrect.” Hide by line?:

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Public university employees in states lacking collective bargaining rights aren’t letting that exclude them from the current wave of union organizing and action in higher education. “What’s happening now is a new regeneration of that concept, that wall-to-wall organizing,” said William A.

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