Tag: graduate students
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Miami AAUP Stands in Solidarity with Fired UCSC Graduate Students and Laid-off Miami Staff
Miami University AAUP condemns University of California–Santa Cruz’s cruel decision to fire 54 striking graduate students. We salute the brave graduate students at University of California–Santa Cruz, whose strike for fair pay and fair treatment has inspired graduate students all over California to stand up and demand cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) to help them survive the…
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Who needs tenure any more?
Overheard at Miami: “Tenure? I think it should go away. It’s an unfair system. Some people get a golden ticket to lifetime employment and some of us who are just as qualified have to work for low pay and no benefits and have no protections.” — Part-time faculty member X. We salute Part-Timer X and…
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AAUP denounces DACA decision
Today’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) will cause massive insecurity, difficulty, disruption and harm for hundreds of thousands of innocent, hardworking people—many of them our students. (The majority of people with DACA status are university students). Miami AAUP urges faculty and students to call their legislators to express support for…