With the Department of Education in turmoil, who will distribute Pell grants and other assistance?
To block a union that would represent 2,500 faculty members, the private university echoed a corporate argument.
Fate of 1,400 undergraduate student workers hinges on university response.
Newly unionized Caltech, Occidental workers got union rights under Biden. Trump’s inauguration has them seeking quick contracts.
Vote adds to growing unionization among U.S. undergraduate workers.
The organizing effort at the private liberal arts campus is part of a broader “societal shift” in favor of labor unions.
Rejecting years of unequal treatment, 20,000 low-paid California State University student assistants and workers vote to organize.
A pay system that does not guarantee raise agreements is a key reason.
Despite a 10% raise, professors, lecturers, coaches, counselors and others will return to contract negotiations within months.
Science graduate student assistants and researchers are at the forefront of recent unionization efforts in academia.
Without developing other good pathways besides the bachelor’s degree, a majority will continue to struggle for decent jobs and social standing.
California Faculty Association members seeking a pay raise walked out at four of the 23 campuses this week.
Vaccine mandates will make campuses safer. It could do the same for workplaces.
A lawsuit alleges dozens of incidents involving the use of force, including special-needs students being picked up and pushed against walls or pinned to floors.
Wealthy parents caught gaming the system. Eli Broad spends on privatization. The price of each vote for L.A. school board race.
It’s been no secret that public higher education in California is badly broken, following four decades of disinvestment and tuition hikes.
As the June 15th deadline for a California budget approaches, Kevin McCarty finds himself a power broker in a fight over billions of dollars of funding for the University of California.
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Data and research for this story were provided by Charlie Eaton of U.C. Berkeley’s Department of Sociology and DebtandSociety.org.
This is an encore posting from our State of Inequality series.
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