Graduate Students United at the University of Chicago
About Us
Since
its founding in 2007, GSU has built a movement of hundreds strong
united in pursuit of better conditions for work and study at the
University of Chicago. In the past five years, GSU has led campaigns for
access to decent and affordable healthcare and childcare, an end to
punitive fees, and better pay for the work we do here on campus--whether
teaching, research, or other labor. We have also stood in solidarity
with other campus workers, including nurses, housekeepers, janitors, and
clerical staff.
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Event: Towards a Parent-Oriented University
GSU has joined with Student Parent Organization (SPO) and the Doctoral Students Association at the School of Social Service Administration (DSA @ SSA) to create an opportunity to discuss parenting in the academy. Please join us on Thursday, May 10th at 2pm for a faculty-staff-student panel entitled "Towards a Parent-Oriented University".
In her landmark 1973 essay, “Towards a Woman Centered University” Adrienne Rich puts quality childcare at the center of an inclusive and gender-egalitarian university. As the fortieth anniversary of Rich’s call to arms approaches and the University of Chicago is opening a child care facility, this panel looks towards the future of what a fully parent friendly university could be. Faculty, staff, graduate student panel on the current state of support for working parents across the university. Presentations will include: the faculty movement to create a childcare center on campus, current challenges to student, faculty, and staff parents, and the role of parents in the academy more broadly. In a general discussion, attendees will be invited to present their own suggestions.
May 10, 2012 (Th), 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality
Childcare provided, please RSVP.
https://www.facebook.com/events/391583777531027/
Co-sponsored by SPO, GSU, and DSA @ SSA
Food and refreshments will be served.
GSU on the radio
GSU was recently featured on the local Hyde Park radio station, WHPK, with two of our members appearing on a show called Radical Minds to talk about the state of GSU, grad labor campaigns, and so on. Calling in were also organizers from the graduate student unions at UW-Madison and NYU. Listen to the show here or download the mp3!