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Penn State Grid Team Earns Highest Graduation Rate

The Penn State football team earned the highest graduation success rate and federal graduation rate ranked in the top 25 poll by the Associated Press.  The PSU team earned a graduation rate of 89 percent.

Penn State Information Department, February, 2010


Tuition Protest Brings Student Arrests

It was like scenes from the Vietnam demonstrations at San Francisco State University in December when a number of students protested the tuition hikes at the university by barricading themselves inside a building.

They arrived early too.  The students occupied a 3 story building which was also used for classes and police were forced to break a window to get in.  Students had used chains to lock the doors.

“The doors were locked . . . from the inside so police broke through a window to get in,” said a university spokesperson.  Classes in the building were canceled after the 24 hour occupation began.

Twenty-six students were arrested.  Fees for students at the 23 California State University campuses were increased by 30 percent during 2009.

New York Times, Dec. 11, 2009


Researchers at Unv. Of Massachusetts Unionize

Researchers in post-doctoral programs at the University of Massachusetts have had enough of low pay.  About 300 postdoctoral researchers at the Amherst, Boston and Dartmouth campuses of the university joined the United Auto Workers union and became the first university researchers in the state to do so.

According to the Boston Globe, the move will force the university to negotiate wages, health coverage, job security and other workplace issues. 

The United Auto Workers now represent more than 25,000 teaching assistants  at more than 40 colleges and universities.

The Boston Globe, February 7, 2010


Copyright - John Behrens - 2010