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Graduate workers stand along the road March 11 in front of Bryan Hall with picket signs in protest of fees. IU accused the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition of a trademark violation in an email Wednesday.
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Graduate workers stand along the road March 11 in front of Bryan Hall with picket signs in protest of fees. IU accused the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition of a trademark violation in an email Wednesday.
Michael Martin, the previous director of the Black Film Center/Archive at IU and current editor-in-chief of Black Camera, wrote an open letter to IU Media School Dean James Shanahan. In it, he said the BFC/A had experienced a pattern of budget cuts, low retention of professional staff and a lack of support from the university. He also said Black Camera, a scholarly film journal, had also suffered from budget cuts.
The Graduate Workers Coalition organized a picket line Thursday in front of Bryan Hall, where Provost Lauren Robel’s office is located, as part of a fee strike asking for IU’s administration to better compensate graduate workers for their labor.
Graduate workers stand along the road with picket signs Thursday morning in protest of fees in front of Bryan Hall. Some passing cars honked in support of the protest.
Graduate worker Simon Luo speaks on the treatment of international graduate workers Thursday morning in front of Bryan Hall. Members of the Graduate Workers Coalition are withholding Spring semester fees from IU.
From Josh Davis, IU PhD candidate
Last week, the IU Student Foundation announced the Little 500 races are postponed to Wednesday, May 26 after deliberations with IU administration, the IU Medical Response Team and the Monroe County Health Department.
A protester holds a sign that says “Fees suck” during a protest Aug. 24, 2020, in Dunn Meadow. Eight members of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition filed a discrimination complaint against IU through the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, according to a press release.
Members of the Graduate Workers Coalition announced plans to picket from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday in front of Bryan Hall as part of the fee strike, according to a coalition press release. More than 750 graduate workers have committed to withhold their spring semester fees from the university, according to the press release.
IU graduate students and supporters march in a protest against mandatory fees Jan. 28, 2020. Members of the Graduate Workers Coalition plan to picket in front of Bryan Hall on Thursday in support of the ongoing fee strike.
Public health guidance, COVID-19 testing requirements and restrictions are constantly changing. The Indiana Daily Student has answered some of the most frequently asked questions about IU’s response to the pandemic, vaccines and more.
Since its inception, the Graduate Mentoring Center at IU has been home to numerous programs for graduate students, undergraduate students, staff and faculty. After taking a year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, its Trailblazers and Innovators seminar series is returning virtually to the IU community.
Some minimum wage workers and political groups are pushing for Indiana legislators to support the passing of the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the minimum wage. Many employees working for minimum wage support this increase, citing harsh conditions and unfair wages.
The IU’s Bicentennial Campaign fundraiser raised nearly $3.9 billion for students, faculty and programs through donor contributions after its launch in September 2015. Funds from the campaign will come into university possession over a period of time, according to an analysis done by the Office of Finance for the Bloomington campus.
In a previous guest column to the Indiana Daily Student, I noted — given IU’s continual financial growth in recent years — the demand of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition to end mandatory and international student fees for all graduate workers is a modest one.
It should come as no surprise that corporations and other organizations are looking out for their own interests.
Kilroy’s Sports Bar reopened Wednesday for the first time since March with COVID-19 precautions such as table reservations. As of Thursday night, reservations were sold out through Saturday.
Despoina Panagiotidou remembers the moment she learned she was accepted into the IU Jacobs School of Music. She was sitting in her apartment in Thessaloniki, Greece, reading the acceptance email on her laptop. She remembers being excited to get to work with some of the best performers and music educators in the world.
IU graduate student Cole Nelson poses for a picture Wednesday near the Sample Gates. Nelson is an organizer for the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition.
Education is expensive. On top of six-figure tuition bills, every IU student must also pay an onslaught of mandatory fees. But as the cost of higher education steadily grows, the brunt of fee payments hit our most impoverished students the hardest.