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Michigan Senate Approves Bill to Block Unions by Graduate Research Assistants

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The Chronicle: Michigan Senate Approves Bill to Block Unions by Graduate Research Assistants

A Republican-sponsored bill that would bar graduate research assistants at Michigan’s public universities from unionizing has been approved by the State Senate. Consideration of the bill coincides with debates over whether research assistants at the University of Michigan should be classified as students, not as employees entitled to collective-bargaining rights. The bill, which now heads to the House, threatens to upend a case pending before an administrative-law judge, who is scheduled to deliver her recommendation to the Michigan Employment Relations Commission on March 13.

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Michigan State Ends Retiree Health Benefits for New HIres

Posted on April 14, 2010 by | Comments Off on Michigan State Ends Retiree Health Benefits for New HIres

Lansing State Journal: Michigan State Ends Retiree Health Benefits for New HIres

EAST LANSING — Michigan State University will not offer retiree health benefits to any new faculty or staff beginning this summer, the university announced today.

According to a statement issued this afternoon, the change will not affect faculty and staff hired before July 1, 2010, and commitments already made to new hires will be honored.

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Michigan State U. May Cut at Least 9 Academic Departments

Posted on November 2, 2009 by | Comments Off on Michigan State U. May Cut at Least 9 Academic Departments

The Chronicle: Michigan State U. May Cut at Least 9 Academic Departments

Michigan State University has proposed a series of program cuts to cope with declining state support, according to reports in the Lansing State Journal and The State News. The proposed cuts include closing at least nine departments and more than a dozen degree programs, among them the classics, veterinary technology, retailing, and American studies.

The state’s 2009-10 budget, signed on Friday, provides no money for the merit-based Michigan Promise Scholarship but retains $31.7-million in need-based grants for students at private colleges, the Detroit Free Press reported. The budget also spares Michigan State’s agricultural extension services.

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Michigan: Nontenured faculty to unionize

Posted on June 8, 2009 by | Comments Off on Michigan: Nontenured faculty to unionize

The State News: Nontenured faculty to unionize

Nontenured faculty will have the opportunity to unionize this fall after voting to do so on Friday.

The 240 to 113 vote came after the Union of Nontenure-track Faculty organizing committee spent a year gauging union support among employees at MSU, said Richard Manderfield, a committee member and visiting assistant professor of writing, rhetoric and American culture. Now that union support has been solidified, the group plans to create a contract outlining its requests.

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Michigan State Nontenure-Track Faculty Go Union

Posted on June 3, 2009 by | Comments Off on Michigan State Nontenure-Track Faculty Go Union

FACE: Michigan State Nontenure-Track Faculty Go Union

AFT Michigan has added another notch to its belt, as nontenure-track faculty at Michigan State University voted by a two-to-one margin for representation. The new union, the Union of Nontenure-Track Faculty (UNTF), will represent 650 part-time and full-time nontenure-track faculty on MSU’s East Lansing campus. The mail-in ballot election was overseen by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission and the votes were counted May 29. The final tally was 240-113.

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Michigan State gets $10 million from mystery donor

Posted on April 24, 2009 by | Comments Off on Michigan State gets $10 million from mystery donor

AP: Michigan State gets $10 million from mystery donor

LANSING, Mich. – A donor who wishes to remain anonymous has given Michigan State University a $10 million gift.

While it’s not guaranteed the donation announced Thursday is connected to a string of at least a dozen others given anonymously to universities and colleges in recent weeks, it sure seems likely. All the institutions are led by women. The universities don’t know who is donating the money and aren’t supposed to try and find out, which is a fairly unusual request.

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