graduate students 
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SOURCE: Contingent
1/1/2021
Strange Beasts of Columbia
by Eduardo Vergara Torres
"According to the administration, the typical Columbia student worker must be an eyeless, toothless, infertile male creature bred on the cold shores of New England, who is about to inherit a fortune amassed by generations of well-educated ancestors."
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SOURCE: The New Republic
12/14/2021
The 20-Year Fight to Unionize Grad Student Workers
by Rebecca Nathanson
"The 3,000-person strike at Columbia University is the largest active strike in the U.S. and marks a decades-long struggle to recognize grad-student labor," as Rebecca Nathanson explains.
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
10/21/2020
Webinar: Teaching Assistants in the Time of COVID
Join an AHA sponsored webinar on the challenges facing graduate teaching assistants in remote, hybrid, and in-person classes during COVID. October 22, 2:00 PM Eastern
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SOURCE: The Activist History Review
8/27/19
Graduate Worker Organizing is Scholarly Praxis
by Hannah Borenstein
For many inside and outside of academia the notion that graduate students are indeed workers is not readily clear. In large part, I came to see this as mirrored through the reproduction of academia’s lack of emphasis on scholarly praxis.
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SOURCE: Pacific Standard
3/27/19
New report highlights gross inequities in health coverage for grad students
When universities short change grad students, undergrads suffer too.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
12-14-17
Apparent Relief for Grad Students
Reports indicate congressional negotiators have dropped repeal of tax-exempt tuition waivers for graduate students and other provisions affecting higher ed from final tax-reform bill.
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SOURCE: Emory University News
2-22-13
Digital project focuses on Lincoln-based sermons
A group of graduate students at Emory University specializing in digital research in the humanities have created a new website that uses digital tools to analyze and compare the text of sermons delivered after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Their project uses various digital text tools to map geographic and thematic patterns in the collection of 57 sermons, which reside in the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library of Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. The scholars are calling their project "Lincoln Logarithms: Finding Meaning in Sermons" and they hope it will become a model for the next wave of research in the humanities. "The [Lincoln] sermons are something we honed in on because we think the analysis we did could be helpful to a lot of researchers," says Sarita Alami, one of three graduate fellows in the library's Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC). "Nothing exists like this right now," says Alami of the online guide. "The sermons are a game piece for creating a guide for people who are interested in doing digital projects and don't know what tool to use or where to turn. We created an online map so that researchers can know what to try." ...
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