Princeton graduate student leaders increase student-life efforts

University Wire;  May 3, 2000 ;   Jonathan Goldberg;   510 words ......second-class status at Princeton, graduate student leaders have re-energized their efforts this year to improve graduate student life. Though they mostly worked...restrictive D-Bar policies, graduate student leaders -- among them Graduate...

Merger in graduate student government sparks criticism at U. Penn

University Wire;  December 1, 2006 ;   Julie Steinberg;   507 words ......U-WIRE) PHILADELPHIA -- The two main graduate student groups on campus recently announced...Professional Student Assembly and Graduate Student Associations Council heads announced...GAPSA and GSAC heads -- communication graduate student Lee Shaker and education graduate...

Indiana U. graduate student employees consider bill of rights

University Wire;  January 25, 2001 ;   Ryan Heath;   604 words ......U-WIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Graduate Student Organization is considering drafting...assistants and resident advisers, said graduate student Amy Criss, the cognitive science representative...The committee wants to ensure all graduate student employees are treated with respect...

GRADUATE STUDENT SENATE RECEIVES MORE FUNDING FOR RESEARCH, TRAVEL GRANTS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 17, 2006 ;     436 words ......issued the following news release: The Graduate Student Senate has received more funding...the opportunities provided by the Graduate Student Senate Grants for Original Work and Graduate Student Senate Travel Grants programs. The...

AAUP cosponsors forum on graduate student unions

Academe;  May 1, 2002 ;   Anonymous;   369 words ......December the AAUP cosponsored a forum on graduate student unionization at Yale University with...information on different aspects of graduate student unionization. AAUP general secretary...Austin, discussed labor law relevant to graduate student organizing and examined arguments...

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNA JONES, ONE OF BLACK ENTERPRISE'S 2007 'MOST...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 14, 2008 ;     334 words ......keynote speaker at the second annual Graduate Student Diversity Banquet, to be held Friday...Venus Williams and Tiger Woods. The Graduate Student Diversity Banquet recognizes the accomplishments...complete their degrees in 2008. The U.Va. Graduate Student Diversity Programs, in the ...

ASABE Graduate Student Research Award

Resource;  January 1, 2007 ;   Danao, Grace;   198 words ...Attention ASABE graduate student members! You are invited to...research manuscripts to the 2007 Graduate Student Research Award Competition...of a biological system. The Graduate Student Research Award consists of a...

An exploratory study of graduate student unions in Canada/ Un estudio...

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations;  January 1, 2005 ;   Zinni, Deborah M. Singh, Parbudyal MacLennan, Anne F.;   787 words ...Graduate student unions are beginning to attract...the first time in five decades. Graduate student unionization is also important in...decline in overall union density, graduate student unions have continued to grow in...

Georgia Tech's annual graduate student picnic boasts turnout of 1,055

University Wire;  September 16, 2005 ;   Jenny Zhang;   448 words ......ATLANTA -- Georgia Tech's twelfth annual graduate student picnic was held on Sept. 8 at the...Recreation Center. The picnic exceeded the Graduate Student Senate's attendance expectations with...a first-year Aerospace Engineering graduate student. Free food, T-shirts for the first...

Indiana U. graduate student instructors work long hours for little pay

University Wire;  April 23, 1999 ;   Lisa Schubert;   781 words ......introductory literature course, the English graduate student spends 30 hours each week grading...department. For example, chemistry graduate student Tucker Maurer receives an annual stipend...Employees Union, Shane Graham disagreed. A graduate student in English, Graham said he ...

UC-San Diego Graduate Student Association backs fee hike

University Wire;  March 11, 2002 ;   Dana West;   359 words ......LA JOLLA, Calif. -- The Graduate Student Association at the University...will seek to increase the graduate student activity fee from $8 per...quarter. Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Affairs Tim Johnston said...

K-State, KU, WSU graduate student researchers to meet Kansas legislators...

M2 Presswire;  February 28, 2006 ;     606 words ......State University: K-State, KU, WSU graduate student researchers to meet Kansas legislators...researchers are participating in the 2006 Graduate Student Capitol Research Summit. They will...400 people attended the event. The graduate student councils of the three Kansas universities...

Murdered U. Penn graduate student remembered as 'warm, caring'

University Wire;  September 23, 2003 ;   Molly Petrilla;   668 words ......murder of University of Pennsylvania graduate student James Saporito, students and faculty...history. According to friend and history graduate student Ben Mercer, Saporito was a truly...dawn," said friend and fellow history graduate student Sarah Van Beurden. "He could put things...

Tangles in the tapestry: cultural barriers to graduate student...

Journal of Higher Education;  May 1, 2004 ;   Lee, Jenny J. Oseguera, Leticia Kim, Karen A. Fann, Amy Davis, Tracy M. Rhoads, Robert A.;   787 words ......the process of organizing graduate student employees (Rhoades &...There are indications that graduate student unions have reached a critical...At NYU, for example, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC...

ASM International Graduate Student Paper Contest.

Advanced Materials & Processes;  August 1, 2000 ;     77 words ...The ASM International Graduate Student Paper Contest was established in 1985 to recognize the best graduate student technical paper in the field of...engineering. Mr. Xiangming Cheng, graduate student, Department of Chemical and Materials...