Link Roundup – 13 August

UMD renames Office of Diversity and Inclusion (August 8)

topics: Maryland, University of Maryland, actions targeting DEI programs, cooperation

 

UMMC residents and fellow physicians ratify first union contract (August 8)

topics: Maryland, unions, University of Maryland Resident and Fellow Alliance, AFT, University of Maryland Medical Center

 

Baltimore, Anne Arundel library workers ratify union contracts (August 11)

topics: Maryland, libraries, unions, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Anne Arundel County Public Library, AFSCME

 

George Washington Becomes Latest University Targeted by Trump (August 12)

topics: regional, universities, George Washington University

 

Texas State System dissolves faculty senates, eroding professors’ influence on campuses (August 8)

topics: national, universities, faculty, university governance, Texas State University System

 

‘Textbook union busting’: As SWC-UAW negotiations stall, Columbia replaces grad student teaching positions with external recruits (August 5)

topics: national, universities, graduate students, unions, Columbia University, Student Workers of Columbia (SWC-UAW)

 

Trump Administration Begins to Strip Federal Workers of Union Protections (August 6)

 

Environmental Protection Agency terminates federal union contracts, effective immediately (August 11)

topics: national, federal workers, unions

 

Trump illegally froze 1,800 NIH medical research grants, Congress’ watchdog says (August 11)

topics: national, federal funding, research funding, National Institutes of Health, Government Accountability Office

 

How Baltimore became a rising star in America’s worker cooperative movement (August 8)

topics: Maryland, workers