 |
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
In the Comments
"We don’t vote for grownups in Muskogee,
Recent Posts
Top Official in Education Dept. to Lead Business-School Consortium Diane Auer Jones, the assistant secretary for postsecondary education, will become president of the Washington Campus. GAO Report Says Community Colleges Are Crucial in Training the Work Force The colleges continue to meet the needs of local industry through specific technical training, the report says. Academic Capital Flows: U. of Chicago Plans $200-Million Milton Friedman Institute The research center will honor the late economist’s free-market scholarship. Comment [8] Medical School for Physician-Scientists Will Offer Free Tuition Leaders at the Cleveland Clinic hope the move will spark more interest in academic medicine. Study Finds Varying Community-College Enrollments Among States The report also call for more research into why some states enroll greater proportions of their citizens in community colleges than others.
Most Commented This Month
Cal State Instructor Fired for Refusing to Sign Loyalty Oath | 74 Princeton U. Press Recalls Typo-Filled Book and Says It Will Reprint | 57 U. of Colorado at Boulder Wants to Hire 'Professor of Conservative Thought' | 57 Roman Catholic College Disinvites Pro-Choice Speaker | 47 U. of Florida Plans Layoffs and Enrollment Cuts as State Funds Fall | 44
By Category
Athletics
Blog Archives
Keep Up to Date
Today's most e-mailed
Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search September 7, 2006Graduate Union at New York U. Abandons Strike That Had Faltered Since SpringUnionized teaching assistants at New York University returned to their teaching assignments for the start of fall classes on Wednesday, quietly but officially ending a strike that began last November, The New York Times reported today. The strike had been an attempt to get the university to recognize the TA union (The Chronicle, November 10, 2005), but participation in the labor action dwindled during the spring semester. From 2001 to 2005, NYU was the only private university in the United States to recognize a union of graduate students (The Chronicle, March 16, 2001). But it did so only because a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board said that teaching assistants at the university had full bargaining rights under the National Labor Relations Act (The Chronicle, November 10, 2000). A 2004 ruling by the board reversed that decision (The Chronicle, July 23, 2004). When the university’s contract with the teaching assistants expired, in August 2005, the NYU administration opted not to renew the agreement, effectively ending its relationship with the union (The Chronicle, July 1, 2005). Several months of striking by the union did not change the university’s mind. At the end of the fall semester, the university said that graduate students who did not report for their teaching assignments in the spring would be denied teaching stipends for the following two semesters (The Chronicle, November 29, 2005). In at least some cases, the university carried through on the ultimatum (The Chronicle, January 26). By the middle of the spring semester, both the union and the university agreed that considerably less than half of the graduate-student population was still participating in the strike. Union leaders told the Times that the heavy turnover in their membership each year hurt their cohesiveness. They also said they were reformulating their strategy. Posted on Thursday September 7, 2006 | Permalink |
Previous: Science Bloggers Compete to Crown the Top Nerd
|
