Posts Tagged ‘graduate’

DUMB MOVE: Oregon extends policy allowing high school students to graduate without having to prove proficiency in English and Math

(NaturalNews) The Oregon Department of Education’s main agency that handles K-12 schooling, the State Board of Education, has extended the elimination of… Source

Cambridge University Blocked White Students From Applying For Post-Graduate Programme

It has been revealed that the University of Cambridge had initially blocked white working-class students from applying for a post-graduate programme designed to ‘give opportunity to students from underrepresented groups’. The initial plan was to […] The post Cambridge University Blocked White Students From Applying For Post-Graduate Programme appeared first on News Punch. Source

Students Must Pass New ‘Race and Ethnic Studies’ Requirement to Graduate

Portland State University (PSU) is introducing a new required course category into the 2022-23 course catalog: the “Race and Ethnic Studies requirement (RESR).” Courses that satisfy the RESR address topics such as imperialism and colonialism. “Introduction to Black Studies,” “Black Feminism/Womanism,” “Chicanx Labor History,” “Prejudice, Privilege, and Power,” and “Queer Families” are just some of the courses students […]

Ancient Greek ‘Graduate Yearbook’ Discovered in Scottish Vault

An unknown ancient Greek marble inscription stored in a museum vault since the 1880s has been rediscovered in Scotland. New research now shows that the tablet includes a list of young men who took  Read more Section:  Artifacts Ancient Writings News History & Archaeology Read Later 

Fordham Graduate Students Vote 94% For A Union

Above Photo: Pictured are members of the Fordham Graduate Student Workers Union. The Fordham administration will be hosting a union election on April 5 and 7. Fordham Graduate Student Workers Union. New York, New York – Graduate student workers at Fordham University in the Bronx have voted overwhelmingly to join the Fordham Graduate Student Workers […]

Graduate Workers Win Union In Card Count

Above Photo: Graduate assistants during the occupation of UNM’s Scholes Hall December 7th. They worked from the administration building to demonstrate their labor to university President Garnett Stokes and others. (Samantha Cooney). UNM Still Challenging Labor Board’s Decisions In Court. It’s official: graduate student workers at the University of New Mexico have the right to […]

Gaza’s next generation of physicians struggle to graduate

Why are you enrolling your daughter in a major that requires so much money?! If she was my daughter, I’d never let her enter medical school. This was typical of the comments received by Aseel Abu Nada’s mother after her daughter decided to pursue a medical degree. And she understands why. “My family went through […]

Graduate Student Researchers Seek Union Representation

In one of the largest public employee organizing drives California has seen in over a decade, some 17,000 graduate student researchers at the University of California may soon become union members. Student Researchers United, a committee of graduate student researchers, filed a petition for union certification with the California Public Employment Relations Board May 24. […]

Stockton University Students Must Now Take Two ‘Antiracism’ Courses to Graduate

    Students at Stockton University will now be required to take not one, but two courses on “race and racism” in order to graduate. According to a Stockton University press release, the measure “Race/Racism Education Across the Curriculum,” was approved by the Stockton University Board of Trustees on May 5 and will take effect […]

Cambridge University Graduate Who Said ‘Extermination is Best Option’ for Jews Appears in UK Court

Oliver Bel appeared at Manchester Crown Court in the UK after posting racist and antisemitic material online. Photo: LinkedIn. A Cambridge University graduate is on trial in the UK after downloading a bomb making manual from the internet and posting violently antisemitic and racist comments online. Dressed in a tweed jacket and dark jeans, 24-year-old […]

Support Grows For Striking Columbia University Graduate Students

By Josh Varlin, WSWS. March 29, 2021 Above photo: Columbia strikers picketing. Today marks the beginning of the third week of the Columbia University graduate workers strike. The courageous struggle by over 3,000 graduate student-workers for improved wages, benefits and working conditions continues to receive support from workers at Columbia and more broadly throughout the […]

Graduate Workers Condemn Saturday Police Escalation

Above photo: A sign from Friday’s action, a collaboration between NUGW and NU Community Not Cops. Emily Sakai. NOTE: CBS News reports on the police violence: A few hundred students, nearly all from Northwestern, turned out for the event organized by a group called NU Community Not Cops. It started peacefully, but as the march […]

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’ Above photo:Graduate students lead a march for equal rights on campus in the spring of 2019. Colin Boyle. It is less than a month before Fall Quarter begins, and despite daily warnings against doing so, Northwestern insists on proceeding with the harmful and dangerous plan of reopening […]

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’ Above photo:Graduate students lead a march for equal rights on campus in the spring of 2019. Colin Boyle. It is less than a month before Fall Quarter begins, and despite daily warnings against doing so, Northwestern insists on proceeding with the harmful and dangerous plan of reopening […]

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’ Above photo:Graduate students lead a march for equal rights on campus in the spring of 2019. Colin Boyle. It is less than a month before Fall Quarter begins, and despite daily warnings against doing so, Northwestern insists on proceeding with the harmful and dangerous plan of reopening […]

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’ Above photo:Graduate students lead a march for equal rights on campus in the spring of 2019. Colin Boyle. It is less than a month before Fall Quarter begins, and despite daily warnings against doing so, Northwestern insists on proceeding with the harmful and dangerous plan of reopening […]

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’

Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’ Above photo:Graduate students lead a march for equal rights on campus in the spring of 2019. Colin Boyle. It is less than a month before Fall Quarter begins, and despite daily warnings against doing so, Northwestern insists on proceeding with the harmful and dangerous plan of reopening […]

Univ. Of Illinois Graduate Student Workers Strike, Occupy President’s Office

Univ. Of Illinois Graduate Student Workers Strike, Occupy President’s Office Above photo: From UI GEO. NOTE: An update on day 10 of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Graduate Employees Union ( GEO ) strike. The longest strike in the history of the University of Illinois. Yesterday evening, March 6, after a march on the residence of the […]

Bolivian Military Officers Graduate From Anti-Imperial School

Bolivian Military Officers Graduate From Anti-Imperial School Above: More than 400 officers graduated from Bolivia’s military academy, the School of Anti-Imperialism, established in 2016. | Photo: ABI Bolivian President Evo Morales has attended the graduation of 407 military officers from the School of Anti-Imperialism in Bolivia, highlighting the importance of the Bolivian Armed Forces in defending sovereignty. […]

Sex scandal in Russian orphanage: Graduate opens up on years of mass pedophile abuse

“I was 13 years old… I have been abused by an orphanage graduate… He took me to an entrance hall of a building next to our orphanage and forced me to give him a blow job. Then he gave me money to keep me silent, and also took me to a sauna. Back then, and […]

‘Clinton scares the generals’ — Democratic Party divides over foreign policy

The divisions inside the Democratic Party are breaking out in a big way, especially now the divisions in the Republican Party are last week’s headline. Many Democratic establishment types are openly wringing their hands about what Bernie Sanders’s young hordes will do at the convention and in the general election if they lose and are […]

American University of Beirut students protest in support of Steven Salaita as school president intervenes to cancel hiring process

Students at the American University of Beirut have been organizing on campus since AUB President Fadlo Khuri canceled the hiring of Professor Steven Salaita based on accusations of ‘procedural irregularities’ during the hiring process. As a #StudentsforSalaita press release explained, “Students are concerned this controversy follows Salaita’s persecution at UIUC, as well as the changing perspectives within […]

Trump, Sanders and the battle of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for blue collar Arabs and whites

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn would scare the living daylights out of a Norwegian racist against Arabs. Once an enclave of immigrants from Norway — they still have a parade every year — an influx of Arab immigrants in the 1980s and 1990s turned it into a place where you can eat lutefisk for lunch and samak […]

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