The Graduate and Professional Student Federation Senate adopted three resolutions at an emergency meeting Tuesday that call for University leadership to take specific actions to protect graduate and professional students, campus workers and international and undocumented students this fall.
With a little more than a month left before the fall semester is set to begin, critical questions about the return to on-campus operations remain. The Campus Safety Commission met Wednesday to discuss some of these concerns, including implementation of community standards, the current rate of COVID-19 cases and what could trigger potential “off-ramps” to send students home.
In a petition published June 12, graduate workers have expressed concerns about the safety and logistics of returning to campus for in-person instruction this fall. Workers demanded that UNC not reopen in-person this fall, does not layoff or furlough staff and grant them a one-year time-to-degree extension, among other demands. The University has said the Carolina Roadmap was developed with feedback from multiple parties, are working to refine the plan and will make "whatever adjustments are needed in real time.”
Faculty, fellows and teaching assistants are petitioning UNC administration to guarantee that no instructor will be required to teach in person during the fall 2020 semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic, among other concerns. So far, more than 600 University employees have signed the petition.
Several directors of graduate studies programs met with Terry Rhodes, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, last week to discuss a number of graduate worker demands, including raising students' stipends. The University has yet to directly respond to the list of demands, which was submitted a month ago.
Campus Safety Commission meetings have been in session over the last two months to give students, faculty and staff the opportunity to discuss their concerns with being safe on campus. Since it convened it April, there have been 13 listening sessions with some being geared toward specific communities on campus. But while the premise of bringing together stakeholders from the University together seems like a step in the right direction, some have said the goal is undermined by poor publicity and attendance.
Suzanne Barbour, former program director at the National Science Foundation, has been the Graduate School dean at the University of Georgia for three years. In September she's coming to UNC.
“I don’t know what will happen to the Honor System. That’s a question for GPSF leadership, and ultimately University administration."
Grad students are what make so much of what happens at Carolina possible! Make sure to show some gratitude for your TA's, research mentors and lab instructors because it's Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week!
Students reflect on Chancellor Folt's legacy and their hopes for the next chancellor in the face of Folt's tumultuous relationship with students.
Graduate students have been at the helm of campus protests at UNC since the 1960s, from George Vlasits, an anti-Vietnam War protester in the 1960s, to Maya Little, a current UNC graduate student of history who faced Honor Court and criminal charges for staining Silent Sam with red ink and her own blood last April. We took a closer look at why that is.
Danielle Purifoy spent many weekends at UNC during middle and high school as part of the North Carolina Math and Science Education Network, a program to introduce students to STEM fields. This year, Purifoy returned to the University as a fellow of the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity.
André Keiji Kunigami was just chosen as one of UNC’s newest Carolina Postdoctoral Programs for Faculty Diversity fellows. He looks to continue his study of Brazilian and Japanese cinema and its politics in the new environment of UNC and its southern surroundings. He will be revising his dissertation surrounding the two topics through this postdoctoral fellowship.
Second-year postdoctoral trainee from the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Sarah Mills is one of the five 2018 diversity fellows from the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity.
The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) will begin administering digital Law School Admission Test (LSAT) exams to all law school applicants starting in 2019.
In a move from second place last year, the UNC School of Medicine was ranked first for their primary care program in U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 “Best Graduate Schools.” The medical school is looking forward to more improvements in prevention and healthcare accessibility.
Staff writer Kate Karstens live-tweeted the Graduate and Professional Student Federation Senate meeting and discussed student fees and other graduate student issues.
UNC graduate students spoke out against the proposed U.S. House of Representatives' tax plan Friday in a panel hosted by the Carolina Young Democratic Socialists and the Workers Union at UNC.
House Bill 1 — the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — proposed on Nov. 2 by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives includes several provisions that could hurt universities and their students.
In her first year as a graduate student at UNC, Abigail Lee applied for and received food stamps.
