After a year of protests, little resolution on stipend level issues
Graduate students still insist they are not being paid a living wage, yet the university says it spends more than the national average to support its graduate students.
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Graduate students still insist they are not being paid a living wage, yet the university says it spends more than the national average to support its graduate students.
Around 30 UB faculty, staff members and students gathered in Crosby Hall on South Campus Tuesday night to discuss their concerns on how the university impacts city neighborhoods.
Roughly 30 UB graduate students, faculty and community members gathered in the Student Union on UB’s Accepted Students Day to participate in the rally to fight for higher wages and lower fees for graduate students.
Student leaders hoped to create an on-campus food pantry to tackle the growing problem of food insecurity on college campuses, but efforts to partner with UB administration have recently slowed.
Before she was Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UB, Liesl Folks dealt with gender discrimination in the workplace.
Margaret Atwood said she understands why people are concerned about the future of the humanities.
The Graduate Student Association Senate passed a unanimous resolution supporting current and prospective students who wish to participate in anti-gun violence demonstrations. The Senate also voted to increase stipends for graduate student teaching and research assistants, which the majority of the graduate student representative body supported.
The Graduate Student Association will vote Wednesday on a proposal to increase stipends for graduate student teaching and research assistants.
UB students are partnering with Student Life to create an on-campus food pantry, after a National College Health Assessment report showed 25 percent of UB students experience some degree of food insecurity.
Members of the Council of Advocacy and Leadership met Wednesday night to discuss student concerns such as rising student fees and the enforcement of UB's smoking policy. COAL is made up of the seven student government presidents, the Student-Wide Judiciary Chief Justice Joe Wolf and chaired by assembly speaker and UB Council student representative Mike Brown.
Ed Schneider, executive director of the UB Foundation, sat in Clemens 109 alongside some of his fiercest student-critics on Monday, Feb. 12.
Tyler Craven, a senior computer science major, was doing well in CSE 331, Introduction to Algorithm Analysis and Design last fall. But when that success came at the expense of his other classes, he was struggling to keep up and had to resign the course.
SUNY Distinguished English Professor Cristanne Miller has won the Modern Language Association’s Prize for a Scholarly Edition for her book, “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them.”
Graduate students and faculty members gathered at Founders Plaza on North Campus Wednesday to show their opposition to a tax bill passed earlier this month by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
When it comes to getting Starbucks at The Commons, UB students face a choice: wait in line for up to 30 minutes, or as the baristas call it, “going mobile.”
UB faculty, staff and students came together to discuss and share different perspectives on cultural appropriation in the Student Union Tuesday night.
UB students and the local Muslim community gathered at Flint Loop on Friday to raise awareness of the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis.
Most people consider Bill McKibben the country’s current leading environmental activist. What most don’t know is how he earned that title.