Cara Maines
Spectator Staff Writer
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Four weeks after graduate students delivered a request to begin union negotiations, Columbia has still not reached a decision on the request.
Rejecting the most recent in a series of appeals the University has made against unionization, the National Labor Relations Board recognized the validity of Columbia graduate students’ vote to unionize in a decision on Saturday.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Columbia is seeking researchers and faculty at campus labs to accommodate graduate students from the University of Puerto Rico.
For decades, former undergraduate admissions director Peter Johnson was incoming students’ first introduction to Columbia. Even after graduating, many alumni refer to him as a mentor and someone who represented the University to its core.
Columbia’s Center for Veteran Transition and Integration has launched a massive open online course geared toward helping veterans across the nation transition to college life.
U.S. representatives and city council members expressed their support for Columbia’s graduate workers’ efforts to unionize at a community forum on Wednesday.
The Center for Teaching and Learning has introduced a new executive director and launched programs geared toward promoting classroom engagement, technology, and inclusivity.
This semester, the Columbia Nano Initiative officially reopened the Clean Room, which provides a controlled and contamination-free environment for experimentation.
Although President Donald Trump has appointed two new Republican members to the National Labor Relations Board, it could take months for them to make any decisions regarding graduate student unionization, experts say.
With President Donald Trump’s recent appointment of two new members to the National Labor Relations Board, graduate student unionization efforts could falter.