On the morning of Oct. 7 in Jerusalem, Steven Galitzer was preparing to go to synagogue with his family when they were surprised by the sounds of sirens. As observant Jews, they avoided the use of technology until the following day, but in cafés across the city they began to learn the news: Hamas carried […]
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Fordham Graduate Students Walk Out of Teaching to Demand a Better Contract
Dissatisfied after seven months of negotiations, hundreds of teaching assistants are ditching classes through Wednesday.
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Stony Brook University to Spearhead Governors Island Climate Center
The SUNY school on Long Island will lead a partnership of academic institutions, nonprofits and community groups to come up with climate solutions.
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Instructors at Fordham University Threaten to Strike
More than 600 adjuncts and non-tenure track faculty are preparing to strike at the end of the month to demand more from the Jesuit institution with a billion-dollar endowment.
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The New School and Part-Time Faculty Go Into Mediation as Strike Enters Third Week
President warns paychecks will cease for instructors at Village home to Parsons and famed liberal arts programs.
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Columbia Gives 50-Year-Old Preschool the Boot
“This is a return to the worst behavior of the university who thinks they don’t live with us, they live above us,” one local official charged as Columbia said it had given the school ample notice its time was up.
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NYC High School Graduation Rates Up as State Requirements Lowered
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters. You can find your school’s graduation rate using the searchable table at the bottom of this story Graduation rates in New York City rose to 81% last school year, about 2 percentage points higher than […]
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CUNY’s STEM Graduates Nearly Double in a Decade but Disparities Persist, Study Finds
Graduates of science and tech disciplines nearly doubled in the last decade at the public City University of New York, but racial and gender disparities persist, a new report released Tuesday found. The study, conducted by the Center for an Urban Future, found that CUNY students earning degrees in science, technology, engineering or mathematics — […]
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FIT’s Offer of Free Temporary Housing to Laid-Off Workers Isn’t Actually Free
An offer of temporary “free” housing brought a sigh of relief to 13 dorm workers late last month after they learned they would lose their jobs, health insurance and homes in the residence halls of the public Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. But the workers, some of whom are losing jobs that paid less […]