After Monthlong Strike, Recent School Students Return to Class

13 Dec

With a tentative five-year contract reached with the ACT-UAW Local 7902, the Recent School resumed in-person classes but now students have a couple of grievances. The union representing part-time faculty ended their monthlong strike — the longest one amongst adjunct faculty within the U.S. — over the weekend. Union leadership is anticipated to recommend the brand new agreement, which protects health care advantages and ensures that part-time faculty are paid for added work that is finished outside of the classroom. There are about 2,600 Recent School employees represented by the union and 1,789 of them are part-time faculty which are teaching fall semester classes. Parsons has 932 part-time faculty members, but school officials don't break out faculty numbers per school. Minimum hourly rates...

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8 Dec

‘This Is Terrorism’: Howard University Students Forced To Evacuate

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Drew Angerer/Getty Images Bomb threats forced Howard University students to evacuate the college’s campus twice in 48 hours last week, just as they returned to high school to begin the autumn semester. The 2 bomb threats come just months after the college and other Historically Black Colleges and Universities needed to lock down or delay the beginning of classes because of comparable threats. Two on-campus residence halls, East and West Towers, were evacuated early Friday morning as a result of the anonymous threats made to the Washington, DC, school, CNN reports. The local police department and campus police conducted a sweep of the dorms with K-9 units, in response to WUSA9. The buildings got the all-clear later that morning. “It was difficult for...

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22 Nov

After Nearly 150 Years, HBCU Prairie View A&M Allows

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Photo credit: Rena O. Productions In 1968, the nation’s first African American studies major was developed at San Francisco State University after an uproarious outcry from students and school. 54 years later, historically Black university Prairie View A&M University is following suit. In a news release, it was announced that the 146-year-old institution will offer students the choice to major or minor in African American studies starting this fall. “An element of the HBCU experience for a lot of students is a journey to self-identification, Blackness, and trying to know the Black experience higher,” said Director and Associate Professor of AAS Jeanelle Hope, Ph.D in a news release. “It [African American Studies] provides students with the language to know the world...

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15 Nov

Goldman Sachs To Invest $2.3M Into Black Students In

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The “racial tech gap,” between Black students and other ethnic groups could threaten the likelihood of them landing meaningful employment, and ever closing the wealth gap in a rapidly digitizing labor market. Scary, right? Fortunately, Goldman Sachs Asset Management is aiming to vary that. In an announcement made earlier this month, the financial titan will develop into a premier sponsor of the website positioning (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity) Tech Developer, with a commitment of $2.25 million over the following three years. The initiative’s goal is to supply Black, Latinx, and Native American undergraduate students the resources needed to chart a linear path to a tech profession right after completing their studies. “While Tech is a high-growth industry, only 5% of...

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