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Johns Hopkins Grad Students Successfully Unionize

Inside Higher Ed

programs will be represented by TRU-UE in collective bargaining with the university,” university provost Sunil Kumar announced in a statement. That release says the university’s Ph.D. The union is called the Teachers and Researchers United–United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Western Michigan University Provost Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction.

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