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Graduate Student Union and Council Fail to Draw Crowd at Joint Town Hall
Harvard’s graduate student union and Graduate Student Council co-hosted their first-ever joint town hall meeting Thursday, drawing only one attendee beyond the organizers.
Harvard Graduate Council Creates Student Lobbying Body
The Harvard Graduate Council has created a lobbying body, the External Advocacy Committee, to advocate for local, state, and federal policies supporting graduate student rights.
On Harvard Graduate Students Union’s First Birthday, A Look at the Proposals on the Bargaining Table
On the anniversary of the graduate students union election, The Crimson breaks down the list of tentative, ongoing, and yet-to-be discussed issues on the bargaining table.
Ph.D. Students Present Research at Harvard Horizons Symposium
Eight Ph.D. candidates presented their research at the Harvard Horizons Symposium held Wednesday evening in Sanders Theatre. Launched in 2013, the program seeks to recognize and celebrate the ideas of Ph.D. students at Harvard.
Graduate Student Parents Face Steep Costs, Social Isolation
In any given year, more than one in twenty graduate students in GSAS are also parents. Some are single parents, some are married to other Ph.D. students, and others have one, two, or three or more children. But they all face similar issues, ranging from healthcare and childcare costs to the social isolation that comes with being a student-parent.
Graduate Student Council Votes in Pro-Union Executive Board
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ new Graduate Student Council board — voted in at the Council’s monthly meeting Wednesday evening — are nearly unanimous in their support for the graduate student union.
In Mass Email, Harvard Graduate Student Criticizes Lack of Support for Affinity Groups
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student and Latinx Student Association finance officer Aaron Benavidez alleged GSAS’s Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs has not given LSA sufficient financial support in an email to more than 100 students and administrators Friday.
Doctoral Students Charge Insufficient Support for Cultural Affinity Groups in Proposal
Leaders of several Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student groups submitted a proposal to administrators in December calling for major changes to the way GSAS and Dudley House support affinity groups.
Grad Student Union Rallies for Third-Party Arbitration, Petitions Harvard President Bacow
Harvard’s graduate student union delivered a petition to Massachusetts Hall during a rally attended by more than 150 supporters — including Cambridge City Councillors and members of labor unions across Massachusetts — Wednesday.
GSAS Graduate Student Council Supports Union’s 'No Carve Out,' Talks Latinx Funding Disparity
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Graduate Student Council approved a resolution declaring their official support for the graduate student union’s proposal to include sexual harassment and discrimination in grievance procedures at their monthly open meeting Wednesday.
Life Matters Talk
Abdur-Rashid on Wednesday night. The talk is a part of Life Matters, a series that allows students to listen to esteemed Harvard affiliates talk about their life trajectory.
GSAS Dean Discusses Academics and Advising with Harvard Muslim Chaplain in 'Life Matters' Talk
The interview marked the second installment of “Life Matters,” a discussion series hosted by Abdur-Rashid that offers students the opportunity to learn from the insights and life experiences of members of Harvard’s academic community.
Graduate Student Criticizes Harvard’s Reimbursement Policies As a Financial and Psychological ‘Burden’
The discussion surrounding reimbursement issues was refreshed after Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Ph.D. candidate Jessica E. Sagers published an op-ed in Science Magazine, detailing how she and her peers have suffered under Harvard’s current reimbursement policies.
GSAS Diversity Fellows Focus On BGLTQ, Representation Issues
The two new Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Diversity and Inclusion Fellows plan to provide better support for BGLTQ students and students from underrepresented backgrounds, the fellows wrote in emails to The Crimson. The two new fellows began earlier this month, joining inaugural Fellow Alyssa M. Hernandez in the role.
Graduate Student Union Organizers-Turned-Negotiators Learn to Bargain
When representatives from Harvard’s newly-formed graduate student union sat down in front of the University’s negotiators in their first bargaining session last October, they brought to the meeting enthusiasm for their cause, an ambitious list of 80 bargaining goals, and a set of democratic negotiating principles framing leadership as shared among the entire team.
Harvard Increases Graduate Student Stipend By Three Percent
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Emma Dench announced that Ph.D. students on financial support will see their stipends increase by 3 percent during the 2019-20 academic year in an email to GSAS affiliates Wednesday.
GSAS Hires Two New Diversity Fellows, Increases BGLTQ Support
New fellows Xavier J. du Maine and Andrew N. Westover will join current fellow Alyssa M. Hernandez in the fellowship program created last spring in an effort to strengthen ties between the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences administration and its students.
Grad Student Council Talks Health Insurance Plan, Pushes for Student Involvement
The University has asked graduate students working on departmental mental health surveys to temporarily stop submitting reports containing the results, the Graduate Student Council announced at its first monthly meeting of the year Wednesday.
Grad Students in STEM Talk Lab Culture Issues at Union-Led Discussion
Graduate students in STEM departments shared stories about sexual harassment in the lab, issues with advisors, and unsafe working conditions at a discussion hosted by the graduate student union Wednesday night.
Harvard Proposes Student Workers Be Allowed to Choose Whether to Join Union
Harvard negotiators proposed that student workers retain the right to choose whether or not to join the University’s newest union and pay union dues in a bargaining session with Harvard Graduate Student Union - United Automobile Workers, a provision that would be unique among Harvard’s union contracts.
False Fire Alarms Plagued Harvard Housing Residents for Months
From fall 2017 to early this year, the shriek of fire alarms in Harvard’s Holden Green housing complex have become regular background noise to residents’ daily activities from bedtime to birthday parties. The sirens rang 48 times, and every single one was a false alarm.
92 Percent of Harvard GSAS Students Satisfied with Advising, Survey Reveals
Ninety-two percent of respondents to a survey conducted among Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students said they are satisfied with their advising, according to a press release posted on the GSAS website Jan. 22.
Government Shutdown Could Delay Some Postdoc Fellows’ Funding
Come February, some Harvard researchers might not receive their paychecks on time because of the ongoing partial federal government shutdown.