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Thanks for the Great Postdoc Bargain
- Harvard labor economist Richard Freeman on the contributions of postdocs.
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University of Colorado Boulder United Government of Graduate Students
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Hell no! We won't grade!
- by Sean McMeekin, Salon Magazine , November 30, 1998. " Will the upcoming strike by University of California graduate teaching assistants raise them from their serflike status -- or spell their eventual doom? "
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National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
- " A non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of graduate and professional student life in the US. To this end, NAGPS works to actively promote the interests and welfare of graduate and professional-degree-seeking students in public and private universities.... NAGPS acts as a clearinghouse for information on graduate and professional student groups at all stages of development. "
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Northwestern University Graduate Student Association
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U.C. Davis GSA
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Lehigh University GSC
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The National Postdoctoral Association
- The NPA is an organization of postdoctoral scientists established to provide a voice for postdocs and to tackle the complicated problems facing postdocs.
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Georgia Tech Black GSA
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MIT GSC
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AAUP's Statement on Graduate Students
- A statement on graduate student rights from the American Association of University Professors.
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Washington U. St. Louis GPC
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University of Memphis GSA
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Middle Tennessee State University Minority GSA
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Auburn University GSC
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Graduate-Student Unions Don't Hurt Professor-Advisee Relations, Survey Finds
- Chronicle of Higher Education , Nov. 5, 1999. " University administrators have complained for years that graduate-student unions poison relations between professors and their advisees, but a new study challenges that theory. "
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A Union Contract Aimed at Preserving the Postdoc Experience
- Science's Next Wave, April, 2004. Postdocs at the University of Connecticut get a union-negotiated contract. It sounds a lot like the kinds of things postdoc associations have been pushing for for years with mixed success: minimum stipends, good benefits, excellent vacation, formal reviews, a well defined grievance procedure.
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U. Penn Graduate and Professional Student Association
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U. Texas Austin GSA
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Brandeis University GSA
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Ohio State University Council of Graduate Students
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New Jersey Institute of Technology GSA
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Emory University GSC
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California Institute of Technology GSC
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Medical Students Sue Over Residency System
- New York Times , May 7, 2002. " The suit says the defendants, including seven medical organizations and more than 1,000 private hospitals, have used the program to keep residents' wages low and hours long. Almost all first-year residents make less than $40,000 a year and often work 100-hour weeks.... Defenders of the matching program say that it is a mistake to think about it in purely commercial terms.... 'It's not exactly a job, it's a continuation of a medical education,' said Kevin Jon Williams, a professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, who has written extensively on the matching program. " There are some interesting parallels for postdocs.