GraduateStudents photos on Flickr

"We are graduate student workers at the University of Pennsylvania forming a union to improve our working conditions at Penn and to strengthen our collective voice as teaching and research assistants locally and nationally.

As graduate student workers, we make essential contributions to the world-class teaching and research conducted at Penn. However, many of us still struggle to pay high housing and other costs in Philadelphia, lack secure rights in the workplace, and face increasing uncertainty about our futures given the precarious nature of higher education and unstable regulation of visas and work authorization for international student workers.

We have already seen the power of organized graduate student workers at major institutions to dramatically improve their working conditions through unionization with United Auto Workers, including graduate student workers at Columbia, Harvard, and NYU. By building on the experiences of our peers at other universities, we can continue to raise standards for graduate student workers across U.S. higher education.

We join a growing national movement of student workers and other academics forming unions to improve our lives and our work. Graduate student workers organizing with the UAW across the country have made a difference advocating for science research funding, fair visa and immigration policies, and better working conditions in all academic institutions."

Class Day 2022 by Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Photo: Anne Rayner

Pre-Commencement Ceremony 2022 by Berklee Valencia Campus

To bid farewell to the class of 2022, Berklee Valencia celebrated the commencement of the students in the following programs on July 4, 2022:

-Master of Music in Contemporary Performance (Production Concentration)

-Master of Art in Global Entertainment and Music Business

-Master of Music in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation

-Master of Music in Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games.

- Post-master's program

Photos by Tato Baeza and Vicente A. Jimenez.

Class Day 2022 by Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Photo: Anne Rayner

2018 impactXchange by Michigan Engineering

Students register to vote at the impactXchange on North Campus of the University of Michigan on October 9, 2018.

The impactXchange was a celebration that aimed to get students to vote and was a collaboration among the College of Engineering, Stamps School of Art & Design, Duderstadt Center, School of Music, Theater and Dance, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Rackham Student Government.

Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing

Cassidy Peterson by Virginia Sea Grant

Virginia Institute of Marine Science Ph.D. candidate Cassidy Peterson, left, retrieves a juvenile Sandbar shark while surveying approximately 15 miles into the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, July 18, 2018.

Peterson, a NMFS-Sea Grant Population and Ecosystem Dynamics Fellow who worked over the summer continuing long-term fish surveys. With her research team, they sampled to obtain data for fisheries, management, determine specific fish community structure and diversity, keep consistency when collecting research samples and determine relative abundance.

(Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)

IMG_9142 by Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA)

Pre-Commencement Ceremony 2022 by Berklee Valencia Campus

To bid farewell to the class of 2022, Berklee Valencia celebrated the commencement of the students in the following programs on July 4, 2022:

-Master of Music in Contemporary Performance (Production Concentration)

-Master of Art in Global Entertainment and Music Business

-Master of Music in Music Production, Technology, and Innovation

-Master of Music in Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games.

- Post-master's program

Photos by Tato Baeza and Vicente A. Jimenez.

2.16.22-69 by Rowan University Marketing and Communications

2022 Graduate Awards Brunch by Auburn University Graduate School

2022 Graduate Awards Brunch

George White Class Spring 2010 135 by Penn State College of Education

Kayla Schumacher by Eastern Illinois University

Graduate student Kayla Schumacher poses for a portrait in the CATS Media Center in the McAfee Gymnasium on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on July 11, 2011. (Jay Grabiec)

Graduate Research at Colorado State University by ColoradoStateUniversity