Graduate students in the UNC community face complications in the relationship between their stipends and rent in Chapel Hill. Between finding roommates, managing stipends and working other jobs, graduate students share their experience of living in the Chapel Hill community.
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In Tuesday's meeting of the Administrative Board of the Graduate School, Dean Suzanne Barbour said the GRE will not be centrally required for admission to graduate programs at UNC for the 2022 admissions cycle. Additionally, the Board discussed new degree programs and the allocation of funding for the 2022 fiscal year.
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Neel Swamy was announced as president-elect of GPSG on Wednesday by the Board of Elections. That same day, Kade Sutton was elected president of the CAA.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“I don’t know what will happen to the Honor System. That’s a question for GPSF leadership, and ultimately University administration."
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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!
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Students reflect on Chancellor Folt's legacy and their hopes for the next chancellor in the face of Folt's tumultuous relationship with students.
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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.
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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.
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