IU grad students protest Monday for higher wages and better conditions
A group of about 50 graduate students gathered Monday morning in Dunn Meadow to protest inadequate pay and the increased risks graduate workers face due to the coronavirus.
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A group of about 50 graduate students gathered Monday morning in Dunn Meadow to protest inadequate pay and the increased risks graduate workers face due to the coronavirus.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how IU manages student dining.Residential Programs and Services has implemented a range a range of changes, including the closure of dining halls, mandatory social distancing and the expansion of the use of Grubhub.
A Bloomington order, which went into effect noon Friday, lowered the size limit of non-commercial gatherings within city boundaries from 50 to 15, according to a press release.
In a video tweeted Wednesday evening, a group of about 100 people can be seen gathered closely together not wearing masks. The video has since gained more than 110,000 views as of Wednesday night.
Around 1% of the 8,000 students tested before living on campus have tested positive for coronavirus, according to an email from the Office of the Provost. Another email detailed swift action taken with students who do not follow the safety guidelines for COVID-19.
As thousands of students return to Bloomington this fall, those living both on and off campus are required to be tested for COVID-19. IU University Events, which oversees events such as commencement and freshman induction, has led the testing for Bloomington’s campus.
IU President Michael McRobbie announced during the Board of Trustees meeting Friday that he is retiring June 30, 2021. McRobbie, IU’s 18th president, has been in his position since 2007.
Professor of pediatrics Dr. Aaron Carroll is IU’s director of surveillance and mitigation for the COVID-19 pandemic, and he has been heavily involved in developing IU’s COVID-19 response. The IDS had a Zoom interview with Carroll to ask questions about what the fall semester will look like.
IU undergraduate students are eligible to take one online course per semester from six other schools in the Big Ten Academic Alliance during the 2020-21 academic year.
IU has released more specific and updated information on how the university will handle COVID-19-related issues, specifically testing, this fall after a summer of frequently changing guidance on testing requirements and other policies.
For students taking all online classes and not in Bloomington, IU is offering a discount on the Combined Mandatory fee.
IU is getting ready for students to come back to campus as COVID-19 cases rise in Bloomington, municipal employees are increasingly getting sick and local restaurants are shutting down due to outbreaks.
In a Zoom webinar Wednesday afternoon, IU spokesperson Chuck Carney and Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of surveillance and mitigation for the COVID-19 pandemic, answered student questions about returning to campus.
IU announced Friday that the university is supporting a lawsuit against the Trump administration in response to a new regulation stripping international students of their visas if they pursue online-only education.
IU announced in a Friday email that all IU-Bloomington students must be tested for the coronavirus within 10 days of returning to campus and report the results to the university. Students will not be allowed to attend classes or participate in any activities on campus until they receive and report negative test results, and there will be no exemptions.
International students are prohibited from taking a fully online course load this fall semester, as announced Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If they attend an online-only university, international students must leave the U.S., transfer to a different school or face deportation as a consequence, according to the release.
Indiana University released a statement July 6 on Twitter following the Fourth of July attack of Vauhxx Booker near Lake Monroe.
The newly formed six-member Jordan Committee appointed by IU President Michael McRobbie will review the names of Jordan Hall, Jordan River, Jordan Avenue, the Jordan Parking Garage and any scholarships, fellowships or other awards that bear former IU President David Starr Jordan’s name, according to a July 2 release.
On June 12, 76 faculty members and researchers at the IU biology department sent a letter to President Michael McRobbie and other IU administrators calling for Jordan Hall to be renamed. This letter comes amid an international movement to remove racist statues and symbols after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer caused word-wide protests against police brutality and racism.
In IU’s latest update email sent Friday, the university announced it is partially reimbursing students for parking pass expenses for the spring semester and adding four more credit hours to the school year limit.