Tensions continue to escalate between the University of Michigan and its graduate student workers. The university filed a complaint Thursday asking a court to order striking graduate students back to work.
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University of Michigan pushes back against graduate student strike
The University of Michigan has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union representing graduate student workers, contending its strike amounts to a breach of contract. The grad students walked off the job Wednesday morning.
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University of Michigan graduate workers set to begin strike Wednesday
Grad student workers will stop teaching undergraduate students Wednesday morning, just weeks before classes end. The union is seeking a big pay increase. U-M vows legal action, saying a strike would violate the current contract and state law.
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University of Michigan graduate student workers vote to strike
The union representing the grad students passed a strike vote late Thursday as they seek a 60-percent pay hike and other benefits. The school said walking out on teaching undergrads would violate the current contract and vowed to continue classes if there is a strike.
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MSU offered active violence training. Few attended before shooting
As Michigan State moves to make active shooter training mandatory for all students and staff, records show optional sessions offered by the university were rarely attended before last month’s mass shooting.
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Michigan State faculty worried about door locks 5 months before shooting
At a September meeting with top MSU leaders, including the police chief, at least two faculty members raised concerns about a lack of door locks in the event of a campus shooting. One speaker cited Berkey Hall specifically.
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Opinion | Another governor, another college plan with no accountability
Gretchen Whitmer’s Sixty by 30 plan emulates failed efforts by predecessors to raise the number of post-high-school degrees. But the plan only helps a few thousand. Holding colleges accountable to graduate more students would go farther.
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MSU's long path ahead: What other universities have done after mass shootings
MSU is the 11th college or university since 1966 where a lone gunman killed three or more people. For every school touched by such violence, moving forward has been a long and complicated process.
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From the gunfire at MSU, an emerging class of determined gun activists
In the month since a terrifying mass shooting, a loose collection of MSU students has emerged to organize sit-downs, pressure lawmakers, tend to classmates and demand that school officials create a safer campus for those who follow.
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Wayne State launches free tuition program to lower-income students
Wayne State University is launching a program to make tuition and fees free for students whose families $70,000 a year or less. It’s possible because of a new state scholarship program.