'We’re demanding IU follows through on their promises': Demonstrators gather at joint rally
Dozens of demonstrators with signs reading “Carbon neutrality by 2040” and “Demand divestment now” surrounded the Showalter Fountain on Aug. 26.
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Dozens of demonstrators with signs reading “Carbon neutrality by 2040” and “Demand divestment now” surrounded the Showalter Fountain on Aug. 26.
IU Student Government wants to ride the momentum of last year to continue putting pressure on IU’s administration to address climate change.
Three campus advocacy groups will hold a Kickstart Rally on August 26 to reaffirm and gain more support for their movements. The rally will consist of Sunrise Bloomington, Students for a New Green World and Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers. It will be at the Showalter Fountain and will start at 3 p.m.
Provost Rahul Shrivastav announced IU increased the minimum stipend for IU graduate workers to $22,000 and eliminated mandatory fees in an email to faculty, staff and graduate workers on Tuesday. The changes are effective immediately and will be applied retroactively to July 1.
Graduate student Natalie Beglin shows support for the graduate worker strike April 14, 2022, outside of Ballantine Hall. Provost Rahul Shrivastav announced IU increased the minimum stipend for graduate workers to $22,000 and eliminated mandatory fees Tuesday.
Students march at an Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers rally April 14, 2022, around Ballantine Hall's courtyard. The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers condemns new contract for student academic appointees.
Changes to the fall 2022 Individual Contract for Student Academic Appointees have prompted the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers to declare a statement of duress, which says they were forced to sign the contract under terms they disagreed with. The organization recommends members continue to sign the contract to avoid a lapse in pay, but have asked that they also sign the statement to send to administrators.
James Wimbush, dean of the University Graduate School at IU, is stepping down from the position to focus on his role as vice president of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs, according to an IU press release.
Vivian Winston, a former IU Kelley School of Business professor, won the Board of Trustee election Thursday with 8,196 out of 16,302 total votes. She will occupy one of three trustee seats elected by IU alumni, taking former trustee MaryEllen Bishop’s spot.
The Board of Trustees met at IU Northwest June 16 and 17 to approve a $4 billion operating budget and several personnel appointments. The meeting occurred a day after faculty sent a letter urging trustees to reverse their earlier decision and recognize the graduate worker union.
In a June 15 letter to the IU Board of Trustees, more than 280 IU Bloomington faculty said they were dismayed by the board’s choice to not recognize the graduate worker union despite an overwhelming vote by faculty calling for union recognition. The letter was sent the day before the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday at IU Northwest.
Morgenstern Books will conduct a book talk featuring Scott Russell Sanders at 6:30 p.m. on June 9. Sanders will be discussing and answering questions about his newest book, “Small Marvels.” Copies of the novel will be available at the event.
Students holds strike signs and chant in front of the Chemistry Building on April 14, 2022. The IU Board of Trustees said they will not recognize the graduate worker union.
The IU Board of Trustees said they will not recognize the graduate worker union, despite the faculty vote calling for them to do so, in a letter to the Bloomington Faculty Council May 31.
Students march at one of Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Graduate Workers rallies April 14, 2022, around Ballantine Hall's courtyard. Nearly 2,000 faculty members voted on resolutions supporting the strike.
IU faculty overwhelmingly voted in support of the graduate worker strike, including protection from being fired for striking and calling on the administration to recognize the union, according to a press release on May 23.
A graduating doctoral candidate holds up a sign for the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers strike while walking across stage May 6, 2022, in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The IGWC-UE is striking to push the IU administration to recognize them as a union, according to the organization’s website.
IU graduate students are facing a variety of emotions heading into the commencement ceremony on May 6.
The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers voted to suspend their strike for the summer and to submit grades for Spring 2022 classes on May 9, according to a press release. The IGWC-UE said they are preparing for a more disruptive strike in the fall.
Faculty members voted to assert that no student would be fired for striking or failing to submit grades in a special meeting of the Bloomington Faculty Council May 9. Of the 732 faculty members in attendance, 632 voted yes on the resolution, according to the Bloomington Faculty Council Executive Committee.