Beyond lactation stations, the issue raises larger questions about the status of grad students – seen by some as students and others as employees, and by others still as both – and that to which federal and state labor laws would entitle them, as well as provisions afforded to them under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination in education programs.
Wellesley College will invite Xia Yeliang, a Chinese economics professor recently fired by Peking University and an outspoken advocate for democracy and human rights in China, to be a visiting fellow.
Georgetown University has come under fire for inviting Ramy Jan, a founding member of the Egyptian Nazi Party, to speak at a conference next month called “Egypt and the Struggle for Democracy.” The university responded on Wednesday by rescinding its invitation.
New York University has agreed to let most of its graduate-student employees vote on forming a union, ending a dispute over the students' unionization rights that had been pending before the National Labor Relations Board.