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Ukrainian students in the U.S. face emotional, financial hardships

by Kristin Schwab
Mar 7, 2022
As the end of the school year nears, those students who cant or don't feel safe returning home will have to find housing and a way to pay for it.
For Ukrainian students in the United States, the emotional and financial toll of Russia's invasion hits hard.
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More and more graduate students seek to unionize

by Savannah Peters
Dec 21, 2021
The pandemic has highlighted existing challenges for grad student workers and created new ones.
This year has seen a surge in unionization efforts, increasingly on college campuses — including at MIT, Columbia University and the University of New Mexico.
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Are graduate students also employees?

by Ben Bradford
Sep 20, 2019
A proposed rule by the National Labor Relation Board says no, although those students often do perform core university functions.
Yale students walk through the New Haven, Connecticut, campus in 2018.
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Graduate students win recognition as employees

by Amy Scott
Aug 24, 2016
A National Labor Relations Board ruling could trigger a wave of unionization.
Graduate Students at Yale University thank the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for making collective bargaining rights and unionization legal.
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