POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Here are some pictures I took at today’s NO to the #GradTax walkout at the University of California at Berkeley: The march approaches Sproul Plaza: On the stage: The audience: Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, addresses the rally on behalf of the Berkeley Faculty Association: From…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The AAUP, along with other higher education groups, strongly opposes proposed tax legislation that would hurt higher education. The tax bill passed by the House of Representatives threatens to devastate graduate education by reclassifying tuition waivers as taxable income–a move that, if it becomes law, would result in an untenable financial…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The AAUP and a large coalition of other higher education groups have issued an open letter calling on legislators to protect the graduate student tuition waiver and the students it benefits. The AAUP previously called on its members and those who support higher education to “Vote No on the Tax Bill”…
BY LARRY CATÁ BACKER Once virtually everyone in the nation could look at the university and see in it the embodiment of a noble idea. Universities were the place where young adults were given an education (civic, social, and intellectual) to prepare them for the assumption of their roles in society. To that end, students…
BY HANK REICHMAN There’s much to be troubled by in the Republican tax “reform” proposals under consideration in the House and Senate. Both plans favor inherited wealth over income earned through labor; favor “red states” over “blue states,” and taken together generally amount to what Paul Krugman calls generational class warfare. But as a lifelong…
BY YALI AMIT, ANTON FORD, ELAINE HADLEY, AND DENIS HIRSCHFELDT The following piece was written by these members of the University of Chicago faculty: Yali Amit, Professor of Statistics; Anton Ford, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Elaine Hadley, Professor of English; and Denis Hirschfeldt, Professor of Mathematics. Graduate student employees at the university will vote tomorrow…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN On August 8, the National Labor Relations Board ordered the University of Chicago to schedule a representation vote of its graduate student employees on whether they wish to be represented by the Graduate Students United, a joint affiliate of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of…
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL The Boston Globe recently reported on the decision by record numbers of international students to choose Canada when pursuing their higher education goals. Reporter Laura Krantz noted: Some reasons are longstanding – fear of gun crime in the United States and cheaper tuition up north. But the 2016 election, and with…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN This week the AAUP’s Committee on Graduate and Professional Students issued a statement condemning the current campaign by private elite universities “to obstruct the democratic rights and freedoms of their graduate employees” who seek union recognition. The University of Chicago is one such institution. There the administration continues to obstruct the…
BY THE AAUP COMMITTEE ON GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS Over the past nine months, graduate employees at private universities have faced vicious campaigns and legal challenges from university administrations as they have attempted to exercise their freedom to join together in a union to negotiate collectively for better working conditions. The American Association of University…