Mere hours before the Iowa Board of Regents selected J. Bruce Harreld as the University of Iowa’s next president, a survey conducted by the UI chapter of the American Association of University Professors found that only 1.8 percent of faculty and 2.6 percent of other respondents answered in the affirmative when asked if the candidate […]
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District Court: COGS wins bargaining victory against Iowa Board of Regents in “Pay-to-Work” case
COGS (Campaign to Organize Graduate Students), the University of Iowa’s graduate employee union, has won a bargaining victory in the Iowa District Court…
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Opinion: Stop over-funding the bloated UI administration
Recently, the University of Iowa has been making some questionable decisions in the name of finances. Courses are being cut in Intermedia (despite waiting lists and TA’s ready to teach them), fellowships that traditionally fund underrepresented minorities are being eliminated, graduate students are inconsistently funded or underfunded and the number of part-time, non-benefit-receiving adjunct faculty […]
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Regents proposal offers no wage increase for grad students, slashes reimbursement for quarter-timers
Within the last 10 days both the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (COGS), the University of Iowa’s Graduate Employee Union and bargaining representatives…
