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Link Roundup – 7 May
Trump Administration Disqualifies Harvard From Future Research Grants (May 5) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/trump-harvard-research-grants.html topics: national, universities, Harvard University, federal funding, research funding Federal Court...
Link Roundup – April 30
University Senate votes in favor of uniting with other Big Ten schools against Trump (April 25) topics: local, universities, faculty, University of Maryland College Park, collective action This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump (April 30) topics: national,...
Link Roundup – April 23
Federal government revokes visas from 7 people at UMD (April 17) https://dbknews.com/2025/04/17/federal-government-revokes-visas-umd topics: local, universities, visa revocations, University of Maryland College Park University of Maryland removes list of 25 issues...
Link Roundup – April 16 2025
'Kill these cuts before they kill us’: Federally funded researchers warn DOGE cuts will be fatal (April 10) https://therealnews.com/kill-these-cuts-before-they-kill-us-federally-funded-researchers-warn-doge-cuts-will-be-fatal topics: regional, AFSCME, research funding...
Weekly Link Roundup
U.S. revokes visas of some international students at UMD, UMBC (April 9) topics: Maryland, University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USMAI, visa revocations, students/universities ‘Approximately a dozen’ Johns Hopkins...
Link Roundup and Legislative Update
Hi everyone! Your union president Karin Rosemblatt appeared on the podcast I Hate the News talking about our fight for collective bargaining. Listen here. Legislative Update Your phone calls, emails (over 2,000!) and testimony (over 75 from UMD alone) made a...
Weekly Roundup – 5 March 2025
Last month colleagues across the USM published op-eds arguing for our right to collective bargaining! Dr. Shana Pearson Merkowitz, of the School of Public Policy at UMD, published "University faculty deserve the right to collective bargaining" in The Baltimore Sun....