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As University of Michigan nears the end of the semester, it has argued a graduate student worker strike is causing irreparable harm. A Washtenaw County judge disagreed Monday afternoon.
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Across the country, some states are banning transgender athletes from participating in sport teams that are consistent with their gender identity. Some states face court battles and a new Biden proposal could add further questions in the ongoing debate over transgender athletes.
Video, 911 calls came out quickly after a horrific school shooting in Nashville, while the public waits for similar information in the Feb. 13 Michigan State University shooting.
Dr. Rodney Hanley has been university president since 2018. In announcing his resignation, he said he was living to pursue another, unspecified opportunity. The university said it will conduct a national search to replace him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Bridge Michigan survey finds that automatic door locks, live video feeds are standard at several universities in Michigan. Several reforms are underway following a shooting that killed three students.
Deadly shootings at MSU and Oxford High spurred the tate to divert millions of dollars for school police officers and other security measures. Research is mixed on whether those measures save lives, and they come with a cost to student mental health.
A disconnect between business and policy goals and how Michigan voters view them emerged in the latest query by the Detroit Regional Chamber and polling partner The Glengariff Group Inc. of Lansing.
Michigan needs more electrical engineers and software developers for the companies it's attracting to make electric vehicles. With this new plan, Michigan is turning to colleges for them.
