Dear Graduate Workers of Columbia,<\/p>\n
We are holding town halls to discuss the funding extension demand this week and next week,\u00a0Wednesday February 3 at 9 AM EST<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Monday February 8 at 7 PM EST<\/a>.<\/p>\n In light of the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on our working conditions, we launched a\u00a0petition<\/a>\u00a0as part of a campaign to urge Columbia to offer an option of an extra year of funding for graduate workers in doctoral programs whose ability to do research has been impacted by the pandemic.<\/p>\n Alongside this central demand, we urge the University to allow student workers up to and beyond their 7th year to retain access to their current housing and healthcare plan, to\u00a0extend the emergency childcare benefit<\/a>\u00a0that was provided over the summer, to ensure that M&F fees be waived for those beyond their 5th year, and to permit post-MPhil leaves of absence. We also call for increased transparency from the administration in making these decisions and better communication of these policies across the student body.<\/p>\n Please read the full text of the petition\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and sign\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0if you support these demands, and come to one of the town halls to get more involved!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Graduate Workers of Columbia, We are holding town halls to discuss the funding extension demand this week and next week,\u00a0Wednesday February 3 at 9 AM EST\u00a0and\u00a0Monday February 8 at 7 PM EST. In light of the ongoing impact of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}