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Northwestern Graduate Assistants Form Union

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Graduate assistants at Northwestern University voted last week to form a union, 1,644 to 114. ” The election results are part of a larger trend toward graduate assistant unions at private institutions; graduate assistants at Yale University also announced earlier this month that they’d voted to form a union, for instance.

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New FAFSA won't launch until December

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“More than 17 million students and thousands of schools use the FAFSA form to help access and award financial aid every year, but far too many are locked out of aid because of the cumbersome processes and outdated technology that come with the current form,” FSA chief operating officer Richard Cordray said in a statement.

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Education Department to Hold Hearings on Regulatory Agenda

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The department plans to form at least one rule-making committee, which will begin meeting in fall 2023. ” Ad keywords: administrators studentaffairs Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Before that, the agency will hear feedback on its agenda in virtual public hearings on April 11 to 13.

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Full Recording of Judge’s Disrupted Stanford Talk

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The Stanford chapter of the National Lawyers Guild said, “This protest represented Stanford Law School at its best: as a place of care for vulnerable people, and a place to challenge oppression and bigotry in all their forms, including on the federal bench. ” Ad keywords: administrators studentaffairs Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Temple Board to Become More Involved in Oversight

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Mitchell Morgan, the board chair, said the board formed a special committee on March 13, with the support of President Jason Wingard, to apply “more rigorous attention to urgent matters,” specifically campus safety, enrollment and “university engagement and responsiveness,” between its quarterly board meetings.

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Harvard Medical School Receives $75 Million Gift

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The gift will also allow HMS to move ahead with plans to convert the courtyard outside Building C—one of the five buildings forming the medical campus’s main quad—into a skylight-covered atrium. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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