University of Michigan

by Jon King Washtenaw County Trial Court Judge Carol Kuhnke denied a request for a restraining order filed by the University of Michigan against its striking graduate student workers. Now entering its second week, the walkout by…

by Jon King Members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) AFT Local 3550 went out on strike Wednesday, with economic issues the main point of contention. The union, which is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers…

by Lily Zhao and Matthew Brennan Over 2,000 graduate student workers at the University of Michigan have been negotiating for a new three-year contract since November 2022. Their current contract expires on May 1. On Tuesday, an…

by Matt Zajechowski Between exams, heavy course loads, and other responsibilities, being a college student is no cakewalk. And, with some schools slashing acceptance rates in the wake of the pandemic, it’s no wonder why students feel…

by P.D. Lesko Mayor Chris Taylor called six-hour lines to vote "a success." Ann Arbor's U.S Rep. Debbie Dingell was reportedly "moved to tears" and said, incredibly, in response to pizza and blankets distributed to those waiting in a…

by Jon King Labor disputes at two state universities have resulted in a strike authorization by one union, and a planned vote to seek such an authorization by another. At the University of Michigan’s hospital in Ann Arbor, nurses…

by Diane Starkey How very generous of Coach Jim Harbaugh at the University of Michigan to offer to adopt the children of any of his football team member's "unplanned pregnancies." Since all of them are male, and his wife seems to…

by Martha Stuit, Pulp Characters in Lydia Conklin’s Rainbow Rainbow perch on the precipice of something—a decision, a change, the start or end of a relationship, or even the dangerous cliff above a quarry where people…

by Jeremy Bauer-Wolf Santa Ono, the incoming president of the University of Michigan, would lose his tenured faculty role if the institution fired him for cause, a departure from typical contracts with college chief executives. …

by Scott McClallan It started with the University of Michigan firing former president Mark Schlissel for a years-long relationship with a subordinate coworker deemed inappropriate. It ended with Schlissel receiving about $1…