Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Syracuse Graduate Employees United, affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, said in a news release that the vote was 728 to 36, with 90 contested ballots. The union will represent graduate assistants, research assistants and teaching assistants paid via stipends, said Amanda Beavin, a graduate assistant.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Campuses as America’s next union battleground. Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. That’s a clear and present danger, but I suspect that unionization campaigns are best understood as a product of a shift that has already taken place.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

students have overwhelmingly voted to unionize. The union is called the Teachers and Researchers United–United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers. “Approximately 3,200 student workers across JHU’s 65 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. Monday and Tuesday’s vote was 2,053 to 67.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Bethany Kosmicki, a member of the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association’s negotiating team, said in a news release that “Temple’s administration has repeatedly ignored our demands, refusing us fair pay, affordable dependent health care and increased parental leave.” Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: Graduate student instructors and researchers at Yale University voted to unionize, 1,860 to 179, they announced this week. Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. Some 3,214 workers total were eligible to vote.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Temple said its records show that more than 80 percent of the graduate student union members weren’t striking as of Thursday—the day after it emailed the demand to pay tuition. The teaching and research assistants’ walkout began Jan.

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